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 ... in the south to Haridwar ...
The sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlights South Asia’s acute vulnerability to ...
More than 6,000 rivers and rivulets flow down to northern India from Nepal and they contribute around 70% of the flow of the Ganges river during ... from flowing south into India.
An international study led by the University of Glasgow is the first to define a safe operating space (SOS) for major rivers ...
Islam by-passed West Bengal, but only to implant itself in East Bengal. But the outreach to East Bengal was gradual and ...
“But this declaration is about more than saving river dolphins ... such as the Amazon and the Orinoco in South America or the Ganges and the Mekong in Asia. Recently, more than 150 dolphins ...
A women-only river cruise leans into luxeWomen-only travel groups are proliferating, and the recently announced river cruise from Uniworld caught my attention. Gen Z is at the forefront of the all ...
Known as the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali is celebrated across multiple countries, such as India and Nepal, and faiths ...
The Yellow River ... isolating South Asia from the rest of Eurasia behind a formidable barrier of mountains. In the northeastern borderlands between Burma, Bangladesh, and China, huge rivers— the ...
Diwali, the festival of lights, celebrates the victory of good over evil. It takes its name from the word deepavali, Sanskrit ...
Most of Asia is in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of the continent sits within the Arctic Circle. The Tropic of Cancer passes through the south of ... The Brahmaputra River flows through ...