India's government recently recognized the Ganges River Dolphin as the country's national aquatic animal. And last week, the Ministry of Environment and Forests promised to rid the river of ...

A Son’s Exploration of Faith” unfolds like a slow and reflective drift down India’s holiest river. One that becomes a living metaphor for the tension between inherited belief and personal doubt.

The water, scooped up from the holy river Ganges, is destined for the pilgrims’ local temples. And the precious cargo must be treated delicately: spilling a single drop, or touching another person ...

(AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) ** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, FEB. 12 ** A Hindu couple bathes in the polluted waters of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India, Friday, Feb. 2, 2007.

Trip Details & Highlights Journey with Case Western Reserve alumni, family and friends round-trip from Kolkata aboard Ganges Voyager, an exclusively chartered, deluxe river boat, with a night at Taj ...

This changed last year, when India's Antara Luxury River Cruises launched an epic itinerary down the Ganges and its sister river, the Brahmaputra. Covering nearly 2,000 miles in 51 days, it is the ...

It is thought that along the 2,400-kilometer (1,500-mile) waterway, around 1.5 billion liters of untreated sewage and 500 million liters of industrial waste pours into the Ganges every day.

India’s Ganges River shifted abruptly due to a distant yet massive earthquake around 2,500 years ago, new geologic evidence suggests. Such changes have been observed in other rivers in recent ...