Funeral pyres are lit by the Ganges in Allahabad, where bodies have been washing downstream for days ... Getty Images Hundreds of corpses have been found floating in the river or buried in the ...

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 ...

A boatman in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state is being praised after he rescued a baby girl found floating in a wooden box in the Ganges river ... box decorated with images of Hindu deities.

Her son Mukesh Tiwari was preparing a ceremony involving a holy cow in their village in the impoverished state of Bihar, in ...

NARRATOR: Rivers are a crucial part of the economy and life of India. The students are meeting local Ganges expert Dr Ravindra Sinha, whose been studying the river for 35 years. NAYAN: What does ...

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

The maximum distance tracked was 2,845 kilometres in 94 days. As India struggles to clean up the Ganges river, researchers hope that their ‘message in a bottle’ approach will help shed light ...

Devi wanted to die on her own terms, namely in the most important Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi in northern India where Hindus have gone to be cremated next to the holy river Ganges for ...