Explore Varanasi—a city where time stands still. With centuries-old temples and architecture, captivating spiritual ...

The festival is marked by a ritual dip in the waters of the Ganges River If I’d arrived in Varanasi a fortnight earlier, or later, I would have found a city with a population of around 1.7 million.

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 ...

Whether you're meditating by the river, or simply watching life unfold on the ghats, Varanasi has a way of making you see the ...

A dip in the Ganges River in India is believed by devotees to wash away all sins. But increasingly it has become heavily polluted with sewage and industrial waste. Now, a $4 billion government ...

Located along the Ganges river in northern India, it has captivated artists for generations, each offering unique interpretations of the city. The ‘Banaras: Imagined Landscape’ exhibition at ...

The total population of Ganges river dolphins was estimated to be 2,397, with an encounter rate of 0.69/km. The highest encounters in this stretch were in the 47km stretch of Bhind-Pachnada (2.68 ...

Government officials oversee the construction of the makeshift city in just months ... the spot where the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers unite, along with a third, mythical river called the Saraswati ...

India’s environmental authorities have raised concerns over dangerously high levels of faecal bacteria in the Ganges river at Prayagraj, particularly during the Maha Kumbh Mela – a major ...

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 ...