The Ganges river is one of the world’s most sacred waterways—and one of its most polluted. To restore it, India is undertaking one of the biggest engineering programs in the history of sanitation.

At his sprawling home on the banks of the Ganges, Mishra cited data showing that 85 percent to 90 percent of the river’s problems are caused by raw sewage disposal.

Some of the families whose houses were lost to the swirling water of the Ganga have taken shelter at a high school in the adjoining Ali Lashkarpur village. Tasiuddin Sheikh, 55, witnessed his ...

And, lastly, they want the government to constitute a Ganga Bhakt Parishad, to keep a watch on regulatory matters of the river. These are the demands that Agrawal died asking for.

In 1927, Oscar Hammerstein II had penned Ol’ Man River. Set to tune by Jerome Kern and sung by Paul Robeson, the song became a milestone. Later, it inspired Bhupen Hazarika to write a song on another ...

Rashmoni offered ₹10,000 to the East India Company to take an ijara, or lease, of a 10-km-long stretch of the Hooghly River (the famous distributary of the Ganga), on whose banks was nestled the ...

Today, PM Modi inaugurated a 100-bed MCH wing in BHU, Ro-Ro vessels for tourism development on river Ganga and a three-lane flyover bridge on the Varanasi-Ghazipur highway ...

STEEPED in vibrancy and antiquity, these bold images document the Padma, a major river flowing through Bangladesh that makes up the last leg of the journey of the river Ganges.

In the 1960s, the river Ganga changed the course of thousands of people’s lives after it was channelled into the Farakka Barrage Project, setting them up for displacement and uncertainty. Shiv ...

Rafting has been introduced on the Ramganga River in Bijnor to promote water sports and tourism. Chief development officer Purna Borah stated that the rafting trial on the Ramganga, a tributary of ...

The River Ganga at Haridwar. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) October to March, when the weather is pleasant for exploring the temples, attending religious ceremonies, and enjoying outdoor activities.

It then meets the Dhauli Ganga River, which originates from the Niti Pass, ... I. Mango Showers (since the rain showers are good for the mango trees) occurs along the coast of Kerala.