While India is best known by tourists for wonders like the Taj Mahal, our six-month sojourn brought us to many lesser-known religious sights including the source of the sacred Ganges River 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 ...

"Hunger strikers believe that the voice of hunger has a power disproportionate to its source ... of the river will be completed by next year. "The people's dream of a rejuvenated Ganges will ...

About 400 million people, more than the population of the United States, are expected to participate in the festival between ...

More than 400 million people are expected to flock to the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh during a festival called the ...

Sue Perkins undertakes an epic, personal journey to the source of India's Ganges river in the Himalayas, meeting hermits and holy men to understand the sacred nature of this river.

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 is one of the most polluted rivers in ... "The hardware inside each plastic bottle is entirely open source, ensuring that researchers can replicate, modify or enhance the solution ...

The Ganges is one of the world’s biggest rivers, and seven times the size of the river Severn, the UK's longest river. They discover that the source of the Ganges is in the Himalayas and the ...

The tanneries are a major source of employment for many Muslims ... on the NGT's latest ban on waste dumping by the Ganges. The river is sacred to Hindus who worship it as "Mother Ganges", but ...

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 ...