Hundreds of millions of Hindu devotees have bathed in sacred waters, despite concerns over overcrowding and water pollution, as the world’s largest religious gathering wrapped up Wednesday in India’s ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

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The Kumbh Mela is the world's largest religious gathering, attracting hundreds of millions of Hindu worshippers. Here's how India prepared—and what happens once it's all over. January 29th was ...

The Ganges is India's most sacred river but suffers from severe pollution. High levels of fecal coliform bacteria, industrial ...

Over six weeks, more than 400 million people visited the Indian city of Prayagraj to bathe at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers, which Hindus consider sacred. Sages in loincloths ...

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The two women, mother and daughter, were identified as Falguni Ghosh and Aarati Ghosh Kolkata: Two women were arrested on the banks of the Ganges in Kolkata's Kumartuli early Tuesday as they were ...

‘The joint technical committee found that although Bangladesh got share of Ganges water as per a treaty with India, the flow ...

Amol Rajan Goes to the Ganges (w/t) is a Wildstar Films production for BBC One and iPlayer. It is directed and produced by Brigid McFall, the editor is Dilesh Korya and the executive producer is ...