India’s environmental authorities have raised concerns over dangerously high levels of faecal bacteria in the Ganges river at Prayagraj, particularly during the Maha Kumbh Mela – a major religious ...

Four children drowned in the Ganges on Monday morning while taking a bath ahead of the Chhath festival in Bihar's Bhagalpur ...

Hindu devotees gathered along the Ganges River for a ritual bathing and sun worship festival in India. Thousands of worshippers converged on Bodhgaya, Bihar, on October 27 to make offerings as part of ...

The water quality of the Ganges River, known as the 'Sacred River' in India and where countless pilgrims immerse themselves, has been revealed to be in a serious condition. On the 23rd, India's Times ...

ALLAHABAD, India (Reuters) - Nearly half a million Hindus braved near-freezing temperatures to wash away their sins in the icy waters of the Ganges river in northern India on Wednesday, the first day ...

NEW DELHI, India -- George Harrison's intimate relationship with Indian music and Hinduism sent his widow and son on a pilgrimage to the holy Ganges River, where authorities said the late Beatle's ...

ROUND AND round the baggage carousel at London’s Heathrow airport goes a battered cardboard box waiting to be claimed by its owner, a passenger from Delhi: “PLEASE KEEP THIS SIDE UP! GANGA JAL—HOLLY ...