Three years ago, when the National River Conservation Commission revealed a mind boggling number of 65,127 grabbers feasting ...

Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But pollution, dams and removal of too much water (mostly for agriculture) have affected the flow and health of ...

When a baby is born, some celebration is there and they need Ganges water. And at the time after death, the body is cremated on the bank of the Ganges. From birth to death, in India people are ...

Nearly 40 bodies were yesterday taken to a hospital morgue after a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, three ...

Visuals show the team of fishermen carefully guiding the dolphin back into the water body after tagging it ... data regarding the same for the Ganges river dolphin. For us, satellite tagging ...

Amid tight security, Bangladesh and India began water measurement in the Padma and Ganges rivers this morning under the provisions of the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, 1996. A two-member Indian ...

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and ...

Pilgrims come from across India and around the world to bathe in the water where the two sacred rivers meet. Such mass bathing in the Ganges has ... because the body's ashes can be sprinkled ...

An association of Kolkata-based environmental activists, under the name and style of Morning Walker's Guild of Rabindra ...

This is why it is also common to see thousands of people carrying bottles or plastic jugs of Ganges water. “It is water from the sacred Ganges. We take it home and use it to perform pujas ...