About a month ago, the Inland Waterways Authority of India and the Union MoEFCC jointly took steps to install sensors in cruise ships and other passenger and cargo vessels to protect Gangetic dolphins ...

Monsoon rains have severely affected North India, disrupting lives and livelihoods. On Saturday, Delhi-NCR and nearby regions ...

Some 660 million pilgrims journeyed to the banks of the River Ganges over 44 days during Kumbh Mela, the religious Hindu ...

India and Bangladesh share 54 transboundary rivers, yet have sharing agreements for only one - the Ganges - which will expire ...

Shobha Rao’s new novel, “Indian Country,” is a crime story as well as a multilayered saga of white empire in India and ...

The water, scooped up from the holy river Ganges, is destined for the pilgrims’ local temples. And the precious cargo must be treated delicately: spilling a single drop, or touching another person ...

In "Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River," Sudipta Sen provides a cultural history of the Ganges, considered the earthly embodiment of Vishnu, where devout Hindus go to be blessed, and where ...

ALLAHABAD, INDIA — Among believers, the river has many names: The Pure. Destroyer of Sin. Light Amid the Darkness of Ignorance. But mostly they call it “Ganga Ma” -- Mother Ganges -- and ...

Hindus believe that a dip in the Ganges erases all sins. Men, women, the young and the old, happily shed all inhibitions for a soul-cleansing plunge in the spiritually pure, if physically foul, water.

On the banks of the Ganges in northern India, tanneries that have poured effluent into the holy river for decades are closing. For environmentalists, it's a victory over filthy companies with no ...

India has overtaken Japan as home to the most billionaires in Asia. Yet it also has the world's largest population of hungry people, as one reporter's continuing journey down the Ganges River reveals.

HARIDWAR, India, March 11 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees plunged into India's Ganges river on Thursday as the country kicked off one of the world's largest religious festivals ...