India's sacred Ganges River, revered for millennia, originates in the Himalayas and flows 2,525 km across the Gangetic plain.

On the banks of the Ganges River, near the iconic Farakka Barrage, the air is thick with anticipation. The 30-year Ganges ...

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 in places on its journey through burgeoning cities, ...

The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is drying at a rate scientists say is unprecedented in recorded history. Climate change, shifting monsoons, relentless extraction and ...

Gulls land on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, in 2015. (Debal Sen) Sudipta Sen visited Himalayan pilgrim towns along the Ganges River with his family as a 4-year-old, and ingested small teaspoons ...

CroisiEurope is launching river cruises on the Ganges River in India starting in February 2025. Early next year, the river cruise operator will offer sailings on the Ganges aboard a specially designed ...

ALONG THE GANGES, India (AP) — More than 2,000 years ago, a powerful king built a fort on the banks of India’s holiest river, on the fringes of what is now a vast industrial city. Today, little of the ...

Michelle Baran is on the Bengal Ganga, cruising the Ganges River in India. Her first dispatch follows. KOLKATA, India — History is in the remaking here in East India, which has witnessed the quiet ...

Dozens of dead bodies have washed ashore along the banks of the Ganges river in India as the nation of over 1 billion people continues to battle against an unprecedented second wave of COVID-19.

Indian authorities have put nets up over the Ganges River after bodies of more than 100 COVID-19 victims have washed up — with a viral video seemingly showing ambulance workers dumping some of the ...