Polluted with waste, the Ganges River is being cleaned by a billion-dollar programme – but are the efforts to clean it ...

Toxic foam is covering India's Yamuna River, a main tributary to the Ganges River and considered sacred to Hindus, leading an ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

This temple stands on the origin of the Ganges River. Most Hindus believe it to be the home of Ganga, Goddess of Wisdom, and the sacred soul of the river Ganga. According to popular Hindu legend, it ...

The Ganges River or Ganga, is India’s most sacred river and a goddess in Hinduism. Stretching over 2,500 kilometers, it’s a ...

Funeral pyres are lit by the Ganges in Allahabad, where bodies have been washing downstream for days India's holiest river, the Ganges, has been swollen with bodies in recent days. Hundreds of ...

Haridwar stands as a prominent holy city in Uttarakhand, nestled by the banks of the sacred Ganges River. Its deep-rooted ...

Patna is set to complete two more sewage treatment plants (STPs) as part of a larger initiative to improve the city's sewage ...

The naga sadhus—the iconic naked holy men of the Kumbh Mela—parade en masse to bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions of pilgrims who have also come to partake in ...

One of India’s most sacred rivers, the Yamuna in New Delhi, is covered with white toxic foam, with vast sections frothing as ...

Margot Bigg is a freelance travel writer and editor who has spent most of her adult life traveling and living overseas. Her ...

DUA: Where does the river end? MAP SELLER: Huh? DUA: Where does the river end? The Ganges. MAP SELLER: It’s in the Bay of Bengal. NARRATOR: The Ganges begins its two and half thousand kilometre ...