The naga sadhus—the iconic naked holy men of the Kumbh Mela—parade en masse to bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions of pilgrims who have also come to partake in ...

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 ...

lives in the Ganges river in India, as well as the Amazon river dolphins. Back when P. yacuruna was still swimming around, the Amazon was a very different place, which likely played a part in its ...

India has successfully conducted the first-ever satellite tagging of its national aquatic animal, the river dolphin, in the Ganges yesterday. "This is the first tagging, not only in India ...

Over the past two decades, holy men in India have gone on dozens of fasts demanding governments honour their promise to revive the polluted Ganges, a river revered by Hindus. The recent death of ...

In a first, India has tagged a healthy male Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) in Assam, which will help chalk out a long-term conservation plan for the endangered species ...