Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Hindu holy men, or Sadhus, inspect a site for their camp on the ...

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 ...

India's revered Ganges and Yamuna rivers cannot be viewed as living entities, the Supreme Court has ruled. It overruled an order made in March by the High Court in Uttarakhand state, which said ...

The alleged attack happened near the Ganges - a holy site for Hindus (file photo) Two men have been arrested in Patna, in north-east India, after a video allegedly showing a woman being raped next ...

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 ...

Devi wanted to die on her own terms, namely in the most important Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi in northern India where Hindus have gone to be cremated next to the holy river Ganges for ...

A trip to Rishikesh in northern India changed all that. Practising sun salutations on a private beach, lulled by the hypnotic, rolling waters of the River Ganges, my chattering mind quietened for ...

Hindus venerate rivers, and none more so than the Ganges. The faithful believe that a dip in its waters will cleanse them of ...