ALONG THE GANGES, India (AP) — More than 2,000 years ago, a powerful king built a fort on the banks of India’s holiest river, on the fringes of what is now a vast industrial city.

Dozens of bodies have been found floating down the Ganges River in India as the country deals with a recent increase in COVID-19 cases. The shocking sight has unfolded in eastern India as more ...

Police in India are patrolling the banks of the Ganges River to stop people from dumping corpses of those who died from COVID-19, as the country added over 326,000 new virus infections in the past ...

The country’s government, led by Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party that reveres the river, committed nearly $3 billion of funds to a five-year clean-up of the Ganges ...

The confluence of Alaknanda and Bhagirathi rivers, the start of the River Ganges, is illuminated at twilight in the town of Devprayag, Uttarakhand state, May 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) ...

A Hindu pilgrim takes a holy dip on Makar Sankranti festival on Sagar Island, an island in the Ganges delta, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. For more than ...

The same goes for the Yamuna, which travels 1,375 kilometers (855 miles) before merging with the Ganges and the Saraswati River at Triveni Sangam, known as the confluence of three rivers, in India ...