Every twelve years, tens of millions of men, women and children gather on the flood plain of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in Allahabad, India, for the Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of humanity ...

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 ...

Over the past two decades, holy men in India have gone on dozens of fasts demanding governments honour their promise to revive the polluted Ganges, a river revered by Hindus. The recent death of ...

India's revered Ganges and Yamuna rivers cannot be viewed as living entities, the Supreme Court has ruled. It overruled an order made in March by the High Court in Uttarakhand state, which said ...

Springer Verlag, Berlin, 45–61 Bruijnzeel, L. A. with Bremmer, C. N., 1989 Highland-lowland interactions in the Ganges Brahmaputra river basin: a review of published literature. ICIMOD Occasional ...

In effect, several major rivers such as the Mekong, Salween, Yellow, Yangtze, Yarlung Tsampo (Brahmaputra in India), Indus, ...

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The sacred city of Varanasi, on the River Ganges. Hindus visit to bathe in the water to wash their sins away One of the most important pilgrimages in Hinduism is Kumbh Mela. This is the largest ...

Shareholders in investment trust Lowland have seen the value of their holdings rise strongly in the past year on the back of a more buoyant UK stock market. Yet the managers believe there is ...

Nestled on the banks of the Ganges River amidst beautiful and refreshing ... offers an oasis with temperatures averaging 15 ...