Peak water flows in parts of India's largest river basin have been falling by more than one-sixth every decade, according to ...

Bangladesh is known as the land of rivers and flooding, despite almost all of its water originating outside the territory.

I live in India and have traveled all over, but Varanasi is my favorite city. I love its street food, history, river, and ...

Nagpur: Researchers have unveiled the rich microbial diversity and antimicrobial potential of the glacier-fed upper stretch of the Ganges River, in a .

Over 660 million pilgrims gathered at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India, this past February, and I'm now seeing the ...

Boats are a way of life on the Ganges River in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital. A major earthquake rerouted the Ganges 2,500 years ago in what's now Bangladesh, a new study found.

The Ganges river faces a lot of serious challenges, mainly because of the fast growth of cities, agriculture and industries in recent decades. Too much water is being removed for farming and other ...

Contemporary Western life has largely done away with religion – a loss we feel most keenly when other losses come to call, as Indian-born, British-bred Amol Rajan explores in his new BBC documentary, ...

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 ...

Bathing in the Ganges is thought to cleanse and purify the believers of sin. The fact that people also do their laundry in the river and factories divert their wastewater into it doesn't deter them.

The Ganges river faces a lot of serious challenges, mainly because of the fast growth of cities, agriculture and industries in recent decades. Too much water is being removed for farming and other ...