For Velayudhan, a resident of Irvine, CA, the pull to attend the Maha Kumbh felt powerful and inexplicable. “If it wasn’t ...

This year, you can retrace the steps of Lord Ram, Sita and Lakshman with a trip to these cities that inextricably linked to ...

My roots On one fateful Wednesday night in January, I texted a friend words I never thought I would say: “I just decided to ...

“The flow of the river at Triveni Sangam has multiplied.” Triveni Sangam is a sacred confluence of three rivers — the Ganges, the Yamuna, and the ‘mystical’ Saraswati. Triveni Sangam is located in ...

The city is situated at the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical, or the invisible, Saraswati rivers ... of ascetics and hermits and their followers marching to the river banks. There are ...

DDA reclaimed 1,459 acres of Yamuna floodplain land but 123 hectares remain encroached. NGT demands action on ongoing encroachments despite court orders. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA ...

Most of the people in India depend on river water for their daily needs, especially farmers who rely on them for irrigation.

In Siddharth Kapila’s Tripping Down the Ganga: A Son’s Exploration of Faith, the river serves as both a narrative device and a metaphor for faith in motion, shifting and sedimented ...

The Surya Tilak of Ram Lalla is a remarkable celestial event that takes place every year on Ram Navami, marking the divine ...

The rivers originating from the Himalayas (i.e. The Ganga; The Yamuna; The Indus, The Brahmaputra; The Kosi etc) and those rivers which are peninsular origin have added fertility in this region by ...

The Delhi Government has enlisted the Territorial Army to protect the Yamuna River from dumping, mining, encroachment, and theft. This initiative aims to clean the river within three years.