Polluted with waste, the Ganges River is being cleaned by a billion-dollar programme – but are the efforts to clean it ...

Explore India's rivers and their hidden dangers! From bull sharks to saltwater crocodiles, understand these creatures to ...

Press Trust of India Environmentalist GD Agarwal died in October after a 111-day-long hunger strike The longest Indian river, Ganges flows from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. Concerns over ...

The river Ganges - worshipped in Hinduism as "Ganga ... BBC South Asia Editor Jill McGivering says they are central to Indian life and much celebrated in Indian culture, even worshipped as deities.

An Indian magician who entered the Ganges river on Sunday tied up with steel chains and rope is missing, police said. Chanchal Lahiri, known by his stage name “Jadugar Mandrake” (Wizard ...

Sweeping aside thick toxic scum, thousands of Hindu devotees ignored court warnings Thursday against bathing in the sacred ...

whose been studying the river for 35 years. NAYAN: What does the Ganges mean to you? DR SINHA: The Ganges to me is everything. It is not only our mother, it is the lifeline of Indian civilisation.

Mr Modi filed his nomination papers in the city on Tuesday morning, after offering prayers at the River Ganges, a spectacle which dominated all major Indian news channels for much of the day.

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

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

The journey takes us by railway to the famous sites of the Ganges plain ... by truck up the Khyber Pass, then by river to the first great Indian capital Patna. Using archaeology, living traditions ...

In southern India, Diwali celebrates the victory of Lord Krishna’s destruction of the demon Naraka who is said to have ...