Behind Varanasi's spiritual veil lies a heart-pounding secret. Most visitors come for the ghats and temples but few dare to ...

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 ...

New Delhi, India (CNN)-- The small print in Tuesday's full-page newspaper advertisements for a key Hindu event reflects one of India's biggest worries -- dirty water. "Avoid using pollutants such ...

That river was none other than the Ganges. This breakthrough discovery about changing courses of rivers is known as avulsions in scientific terminology. Rivers have always been changing their ...

The dark ribbon curls down a dirt embankment and flows into the Ganges River. "That's toxic runoff," says Rakesh Jaiswal, a 48-year-old environmental activist, as he leads me along the refuse ...

Practising sun salutations on a private beach, lulled by the hypnotic, rolling waters of the River Ganges, my chattering mind quietened for the first time in a long while. This shouldn’t have ...

Some Hindus believe that the river Ganges flowed from Heaven with the aim of purifying humans. The Hindu scriptures mention the river Ganges and it is referred to as Mother Ganges. Many stories in ...

The sacred city of Varanasi, on the River Ganges. Hindus visit to bathe in the water to wash their sins away One of the most important pilgrimages in Hinduism is Kumbh Mela. This is the largest ...

No fewer than 131 gharials, the critically endangered long-snouted crocodile native to the Northern Indian sub-continent, were recently re-introduced to the river Ganges at the Hastinapur Wildlife ...

This report, "Status Distribution and Conservation Threats of Ganges River Dolphin in Karnali River, Nepal", is an important milestone in WWF Nepal's commitment not only to conservation of a flagship ...

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 ...