The 2500-kilometre Ganges, which flows from the Himalayas across northern India into the Bay of Bengal ... Picture: Anindito ...

Footage caught from the banks of a river that many consider to be holy shows people bathing, despite toxic foam taking over ...

To convey the message of a green environment, children from all over the state created nature-related pictures. Under the objective of green Maha Kumbh, a total of 1,34,364 plants were also planted in ...

Ghosh makes visible the moral double standards prevalent in social discourses, especially regarding trading and profiting ...

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Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees flocked to rivers and bodies of water across India to pray to the sun god as part of the ...

Jayanta Bandyopadhyay spoke at length on the future of water security in Asia, he has authored several books, research papers and monographs ...

When Sharda Devi realized she only had a few days left to live, it didn't go down particularly well. Her son Mukesh Tiwari ...

(Photo by Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images) The dates of the festival ... new clothes and praying. —In southern India, many have an ...

Majuli is accessible via Jorhat, which has regular flights and train services from major cities in India. From Jorhat, a scenic ferry ride takes you across the Brahmaputra River to the island.

In southern India, many have an early morning warm oil bath to symbolize bathing in the holy River Ganges as a form of physical and spiritual purification. —In the north, worshipping the Goddess ...