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 ...

City authorities have declared repeated efforts to clean the river. From an icy source of a Himalayan glacier, the Yamuna ...

But the Ganges has been choked by more than 1,000 ... believe that the voice of hunger has a power disproportionate to its source," says Prof Sharman Apt Russell, author of Hunger: An Unnatural ...

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

The festival of Dev Diwali is celebrated on the banks of Ganga. During this time, bathing and charity are also considered to ...

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 ...

A viral video shows a boy using a magnet to retrieve coins from the Ganges River, where devotees toss coins as offerings.

The Ganges is sacred to Hindus who worship it as ... The tanneries are a major source of employment for many Muslims in the area, but they heavily pollute the river. The NGT is known for passing ...

For those seeking something a little more rigorous, do the trek to the source of the Ganges at Gaumukh and the high-altitude Roopkund Trek (from 8,000 to 16,000 feet), with its mysterious skeletal ...

Varanasi is hosting the Ganga Mahotsav 2024. The five-day festival celebrates the River Ganges. It features cultural ...