Cruise on Ganga, meal with Modi await French president Macron

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

NEW DELHI: French president Emmanuel Macron will get a special cruise on the Ganges with Prime Minister Narendra Modi including a quiet private meal which will be the highlight of his three-day visit to India, starting Friday evening. In fact, sources said a key aspect of the state visit will be the amount of time the two leaders will spend together.

After the Justin Trudeau visit, which was marked by a distinct absence by Modi, it is important to emphasise how other global leaders get the Modi treatment. Macron’s visit will also be scrutinised to see whether Modi or a senior cabinet member receives him at the airport. But sources said the two leaders hit it off last June when Modi paid a visit at short notice to the newly-elected Emmanuel Macron in Paris. Importantly, Modi reaffirmed India’s commitment to stay with the Paris accord — even go beyond it — an important vote of confidence after Donald Trump summarily walked away from the 2015 climate pact.

But in India, Macron will do other fun stuff — he and his wife will get a private tour of the Taj Mahal, and hold a private cocktail reception with a selection of Indian artists at a studio outside Delhi. Sources said, “the president wants to meet the people who are taking this country forward.” Therefore, a town hall meeting with students from across the country on Saturday, and a ‘knowledge summit’ with innovators, thinkers etc. to give him a flavour of the new generation of Indians.

Interestingly, India and France may agree to recognize each other’s degrees — this will go a long way in allowing Indian students to go for higher studies to France, moving the numbers from the currently modest 5,000. This is in addition to agreements being signed in the strategic and security sphere, giving India access to France’s military bases in the Indian Ocean, taking forward a 50-year-old space partnership and an agreement in the nuclear power sector.

Modi and Macron will also fly over to Mirzapur to inaugurate a 100 MW solar power plant, the largest such plant in Uttar Pradesh. This will be part of the “partnership for the planet” that will be one of the themes of Macron’s visit. Sources said the Macron visit will also be a celebration of 20 years of strategic partnership between India and France — it was in 1998, the year conducted nuclear tests and was isolated by the world that former French president Francois Mitterand and Atal Bihari Vajpayee signed the agreement. France was the only G7 country that did not impose sanctions on India.
Macron will be travelling with a large business delegation including defence companies, and others working in transport, smart cities, technology and agriculture areas. Macron and Modi will meet a CEOs forum on Saturday, hoping to deepen private sector participation in each other’s economies.

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[war&peace]

Cruise on Ganga...He will need the strongest French eau de parfum...

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Cruise on Ganga

Cruise on the Ganga but dream of civilizations in Indus Pakistan.

 

[war&peace]

Cruise on the Ganga but dream of civilizations in Indus Pakistan.

It is Gangadesh..nothing more and nothing to do with the glorious IVC. We will keep shattering their dreams. They should be content with what they have got or that will be taken away as well.

 

[Torch_v2.0]

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

 

[Jackdaws]

I am sure a visit to former French colony Pondicherry too must be on the cards.

 

[Maarkhoor]

NEW DELHI: French president Emmanuel Macron will get a special cruise on the Ganges with Prime Minister Narendra Modi including a quiet private meal which will be the highlight of his three-day visit to India, starting Friday evening. In fact, sources said a key aspect of the state visit will be the amount of time the two leaders will spend together.

After the Justin Trudeau visit, which was marked by a distinct absence by Modi, it is important to emphasise how other global leaders get the Modi treatment. Macron’s visit will also be scrutinised to see whether Modi or a senior cabinet member receives him at the airport. But sources said the two leaders hit it off last June when Modi paid a visit at short notice to the newly-elected Emmanuel Macron in Paris. Importantly, Modi reaffirmed India’s commitment to stay with the Paris accord — even go beyond it — an important vote of confidence after Donald Trump summarily walked away from the 2015 climate pact.

But in India, Macron will do other fun stuff — he and his wife will get a private tour of the Taj Mahal, and hold a private cocktail reception with a selection of Indian artists at a studio outside Delhi. Sources said, “the president wants to meet the people who are taking this country forward.” Therefore, a town hall meeting with students from across the country on Saturday, and a ‘knowledge summit’ with innovators, thinkers etc. to give him a flavour of the new generation of Indians.

Interestingly, India and France may agree to recognize each other’s degrees — this will go a long way in allowing Indian students to go for higher studies to France, moving the numbers from the currently modest 5,000. This is in addition to agreements being signed in the strategic and security sphere, giving India access to France’s military bases in the Indian Ocean, taking forward a 50-year-old space partnership and an agreement in the nuclear power sector.

Modi and Macron will also fly over to Mirzapur to inaugurate a 100 MW solar power plant, the largest such plant in Uttar Pradesh. This will be part of the “partnership for the planet” that will be one of the themes of Macron’s visit. Sources said the Macron visit will also be a celebration of 20 years of strategic partnership between India and France — it was in 1998, the year conducted nuclear tests and was isolated by the world that former French president Francois Mitterand and Atal Bihari Vajpayee signed the agreement. France was the only G7 country that did not impose sanctions on India.
Macron will be travelling with a large business delegation including defence companies, and others working in transport, smart cities, technology and agriculture areas. Macron and Modi will meet a CEOs forum on Saturday, hoping to deepen private sector participation in each other’s economies.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...et-to-deepen-further/articleshow/63207237.cms
Maritime security, nuclear deal to top agenda of Macron's India talks

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...-macrons-india-talks/articleshow/63178065.cms

Sale of more Rafale jets high on French President Macron’s India agenda

https://www.thehindubusinessline.co...t-macrons-india-agenda-ep/article22970346.ece

I hope he will enjoy his trip with these type of sites...

 

[Manidabest]

well congtratz indians .....may be in this way ganges will be purified and cleaned

 

[Azadkashmir]

Modi is a troll for this, please don't embarrass the Indians anymore. Anyway bon appetit.

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

that will be one stinky river voyage

 

[xyxmt]

Cruise on Ganga...He will need the strongest French eau de parfum...

you mean Eau de Toilet

 

[Clutch]

Ganga river is one the world's most polluted water bodies. Hope the French President has his nose plug handy.

 

[war&peace]

you mean Eau de Toilet

Nope, I mean Eau de Parfum
By the way, it is Eau de Toilette but it is not strong enough to help counter Ganga. Need Eau de Parfum or rather extrait de parfum

 

[Clutch]

Pollution of the Ganges


Humans are cremated at Varanasi in Hindu tradition.

Air and land pollution at the banks of the Ganges
Pollution of the Ganges (or Ganga), the largest river in India, poses significant threats to human health and the larger environment.[1] Severely polluted with human waste and industrial contaminants, the river provides water to about 40% of India's population across 11 states,[2] serving an estimated population of 500 million people or more, more than any other river in the world.[3][4]

Today, Ganges is considered to be the fifth most polluted river in the world.[5][6] Raghubir Singh has noted that no one in India spoke of the Ganges as polluted until the late 1970s. However, pollution has been an old and continuous process in the river as by the time people were finally speaking of the Ganges as polluted, stretches of over six hundred kilometres were essentially ecologically dead zones.[7]

A number of initiatives have been undertaken to clean the river but failed to deliver desired results.[8]

The main causes of water pollution in the Ganges river are: the increase in the population density, various human activities (such as bathing, washing clothes, and the bathing of animals), and dumping of various harmful industrial waste into the river.

Human wasteEdit
The river flows through 29 cities with population over 100,000; 23 cities with population between 50,000 and 100,000, and about 48 towns.[12] A large proportion of the sewage water with higher organic load in the Ganges is from this population through domestic water usage.

Industrial wasteEdit
Because of the establishment of a large number of industrial cities on the bank of river Ganga like Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi and Patna, countless tanneries, chemical plants, textile mills, distilleries, slaughterhouses, and hospitals prosper and grow along this and contribute to the pollution of the Ganga by dumping untreated waste into it.[13] One coal-based power plant on the banks of the Pandu River, a Ganges tributary near the city of Kanpur, burns 600,000 tons of coal each year and produces 210,000 tons of fly ash. The ash is dumped into ponds from which a slurry is filtered, mixed with domestic wastewater, and then released into the Pandu River. Fly ash contains toxic heavy metals such as lead and copper. The amount of parts per million of copper released in the Pandu before it even reaches the Ganges is a thousand times higher than in uncontaminated water.[7] Industrial effluents are about 12% of the total volume of effluent reaching the Ganga. Although a relatively low proportion, they are a cause for major concern because they are often toxic and non-biodegradable.[2]

Religious traditionsEdit
During festival seasons, over 70 million people bathe in the Ganga [14] to clean themselves from their past sins. Some materials like food, waste or leaves are left in the Ganga which are responsible for its pollution. While people drinking from the Ganga and bathing in its waters are spiritual experiences, it is also part of Indian traditional beliefs that being cremated on its banks and to float down the Ganges will atone for the deceased past sins and carry him directly to salvation. In Varanasi alone, an estimated forty thousand bodies are cremated every year, many of those are only half-burnt.[7]

Source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_the_Ganges

 

[Myth_buster_1]

To be honest Pakistanis are quite jealous of India! All the "my military is better then yours" aside India is way ahead of Pakistan in terms of Science and technology and here we are stuck with toffee candy pepsi chips manufacturing economy. No matter what Mohdi has done in past or is doing currently he has done WONDERS for India! If Pakistan does not gets its acts together Pakistan could become perfect example of banana republic (or maybe it is already)!