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

A Son’s Exploration of Faith” unfolds like a slow and reflective drift down India’s holiest river. One that becomes a living metaphor for the tension between inherited belief and personal doubt.

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

The Kumbh Mela is a Hindu pilgrimage where millions gather on the banks of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India to bathe in ...

The view from inside a cruise ship sailing on the Ganges. The mallahs, who identify as Gangaputras or 'sons of the Ganges', believe that owing to the community's centuries-old connection with the ...

The river dolphins of India’s sacred Ganges River have long been revered, being written into Hindu religious tracts dating back thousands of years. Although surviving for centuries, today their ...

The Ganges river faces a lot of serious challenges, mainly because of the fast growth of cities, agriculture and industries in recent decades. Too much water is being removed for farming and other ...

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 ...

Life on the Ganges: The mystics, street children and pilgrims who spend their lives on the banks of India's most sacred river The ghats are the local name given to the steps that lead down to the ...

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 ...

The River Ganges is filled with antibiotic resistant bacteria even in stretches which are high in the mountains away from India's cities, scientists have found. The 1,560-mile (2,510km) long river ...