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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 ...
India's holy Ganges begins ... of devotees. The country’s government, led by Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party that reveres the river, committed nearly $3 billion ...
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And Kanpur, where Yayati built his fort, is a city known for its leather tanneries and the relentless pollution they pump into the Ganges River. For more than 1,700 miles, from the Gangotri ...
Ganges: River to Heaven U.S. - India Production: A 7th Arts Releasing and Aerial Prods. presentation. Produced, directed by Gayle Ferraro. Crew: A correction was made ...
A decades-long fight against river pollution in India has been given a much needed boost. On Monday, a court in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand declared the Yamuna and Ganges rivers “living ...
India’s Ganges River is one of the most revered in the world; it is also one of the most polluted. Stretching some 1,500 miles from its origins in the Himalayas to its mouth in the Bay of Bengal ...
and rely on water from the river for drinking and bathing. The Ganges is sacred to the country's large Hindu population, who view the river as a personification of the goddess Ganga and use its ...
The Ganges river dolphin, known for its unique features, is found in the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system and its tributaries across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. A small population ...
A decades-long fight against river pollution in India has been given a much needed boost. On Monday, a court in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand declared the Yamuna and Ganges rivers “living ...