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

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

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 ...

Sweeping aside thick toxic scum, thousands of Hindu devotees ignored court warnings Thursday against bathing in the sacred but sewage-filled Yamuna river, a grim display of environmental degradation ...

The naga sadhus—the iconic naked holy men of the Kumbh Mela—parade en masse to bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions of pilgrims who have also come to partake in ...

A basket of rose garlands on the bank of the Ganges. Devotees, who make annual pilgrimages to the shrines and temples of ...

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 thousands ...

Hindu devotees bathe along the banks of river Ganges and carry the holy water to their homes as offerings on the first day of ...

An aphrodisiac made from donkeys, holy water from the Ganges river and a live toad are among the more unusual items retrieved by biosecurity officials at Australian airports and mail centres last ...

City authorities have declared repeated efforts to clean the river. From an icy source of a Himalayan glacier, the Yamuna feeds into the mighty Ganges, flowing more than 3,100 kilometers (1,925 ...