Since the beginning of the Char Dham Yatra this season, over two tonne of clothing thrown into the river at various ghats ...

In April Gangotri is the site for a major celebration of Ganga. That celebration focuses ... The next day we left on foot for the Gaumukh glacier from which the Ganges first flows, some 20 ...

The mystic Ganga has baffled the religious gurus and scientists once again. Its traditional mouth, Gaumukh on Gangotri glacier has dried up and a new source has emerged around 20 meters away with ...

Once upon a time not very long ago, say old timers, Gomukh, the snout of the Gangotri glacier --source of the Ganga river -extended as far as Gangotri town, located almost 18 km away. However ...

Below the Ganga Barrage at Kanpur ... 22,487-foot Chaukhamba IV summit towering above the Gangotri Glacier like a watchful sentinel. While questions of this river’s health raced through our ...

the final camping spot in Gangotri, when a brown, fractured pile of rocks finally came into view it was hard to believe that this was the mouth of the glacier from which the ‘holy’ Ganga ...

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Another glacier, Satopanth, which along with Gangotri is the primary contributor of ice melt water of Ganga river, too has been facing increasing melt rates, other studies have found. The minister ...

After the doors are shut, the festival idol of Ganga ji will be brought to Mukhwa village from Gangotri Dham in a doli (palanquin). The idol will remain seated in the Ganga temple during winter ...

carrying the idol of goddess Ganga departed from her winter residence in Mukhaba village and is on its way to Gangotri Dham. Drums, dhols, and thousands of devotees accompanied the procession.

Ganga descended from heaven to earth at Gangotri, when Lord Shiva released the mighty river from his locks. The actual origin of the river is at Gaumukh in the Gangotri glacier, 19 km away from ...