Peak water flows in parts of India's largest river basin have been falling by more than one-sixth every decade, according to ...

Four people killed in three separate road accidents on Delhi-Haridwar highway during Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage, with three ...

Natural and human factors are driving these changes. Climate change disrupts rainfall and dries soils, while earthquakes and ...

I live in India and have traveled all over, but Varanasi is my favorite city. I love its street food, history, river, and ...

On the banks of the Ganges, between the river's grimy waters and the mounds of trash piling up on the streets, it's easy to think infections. Sponsor Message. It was unnecessary.

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 ...

Ganges Reveals Sublime Luxury, Polluted Wasteland India has overtaken Japan as home to the most billionaires in Asia. Yet it also has the world's largest population of hungry people, ...

On the banks of the Ganges in northern India, tanneries that have poured effluent into the holy river for decades are closing. Jump to content. US Edition Change.

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, ...

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 ...

Months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to clean the holy river, authorities in northern India are saying it was the source of more than 100 decomposing bodies found in one of its offshoots.

Sitting at plain wooden tables, women in face masks roll a brown paste into thin cylinders - helping to recycle some of the millions of tonnes of flowers that Hindu worshippers throw into the Ganges.