What kind of mother gives birth only to send her children into the river’s depths, one after another? The story of Ganga is ...

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.

Peak water flows in parts of India's largest river basin have been falling by more than one-sixth every decade, according to ...

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.

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 ...

There’s a dreamlike quality to Giulio Di Sturco’s photograph of Hindus preparing to bathe in the Ganges. Taken in soft morning light, the image shows devotees assembled by the river, their ...

Raw Mango, a favourite with several celebrities including Twinkle Khanna, Deepika Padukone, Tamannah Bhatia, Karisma Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Sridevi, Jacqueline ...

Let me read out the English translation of a report from Unnao published in a Hindi daily newspaper: 104 bodies found floating in Ganga near Unnao, local administration officials reach river banks.

The Ganga River, known as the Ganges under British rule, is one of the most revered waterways in the world -- and also among the most polluted. Stretching from the Himalayan foothills to the Bay ...

India's holy Ganges begins as a crystal clear river high in the icy Himalayas but pollution and excessive usage transforms it into toxic sludge on its journey through burgeoning cities, industrial ...