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

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

Over 660 million pilgrims gathered at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India, this past February, and I'm now seeing the ...

Bangladesh is known as the land of rivers and flooding, despite almost all of its water originating outside the territory.

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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.