"The reasons for increased faecal coliform can be several, such as sewage leakage and animal waste, but the amount of faecal ...

India's mass bathing festival turned the water sour at the 'holy' river, as pollution and waste tainted the area during the ...

Every 12 years, hundreds of millions of Hindu pilgrims gather in northern India for a ritual bath at the confluence of the ...

As per the latest recorded data on 4 February, faecal coliform levels in the Ganges surged after a major bathing event at the ...

For millions of Hindu pilgrims at India's millennia-old vast Kumbh Mela festival, the culmination of their journey is ritual bathing in the holy waters where ... visit the holy site and take a dip in ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked ... two worldly and one mythical — to attain salvation. Bathing at the festival, ...

At an evening news conference in India ... the Shahi Snan (royal bath) has started, with holy men from akharas or religious sects taking dips in the river as people gather to see them and seek ...

A 20-year-old engineering student drowned while bathing in the Ganga river in Uttarakhand’s Rishikesh on Sunday, officials said. State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) officials said the body of Vaibhav ...