While India is best known by tourists for wonders like the Taj Mahal, our six-month sojourn brought us to many lesser-known religious sights including the source of the sacred Ganges River in ...

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 ...

The History Lecture Series hosted their second installment of “River Histories” on Jan. 29 with a lecture presented by ...

The Ganges River holds immense importance for both Bangladesh and India, providing water for agriculture, livelihoods, and ...

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 ...

Sue Perkins undertakes an epic, personal journey to the source of India's Ganges river in the Himalayas, meeting hermits and holy men to understand the sacred nature of this river.

The Ganges is one of the world’s biggest rivers, and seven times the size of the river Severn, the UK's longest river. They discover that the source of the Ganges is in the Himalayas and the ...

Devotees take a holy dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati river As we've been reporting, at least 30 people have been killed in a crush at the Kumbh Mela festival ...

the Ganges and the mythical Saraswati, on Vasant Panchami during the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh state, India, ...

In a first, India has tagged a healthy male Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) in Assam, which will help chalk out a long-term conservation plan for the endangered species ...