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 ...

Kolkata rivers like the ebullient Hooghly and calm Haldi are a part and parcel of Kolkata. They are there for everyone, whether it centers around history or nature or a little bit of both.

After an intensive on-the-spot survey for two days of the current status of the flow in the Ganges river at Farakka in West Bengal, technical experts and senior officials of Bangladesh and India ...