Sudipta Sen visited Himalayan pilgrim towns along the Ganges River with his family as a 4-year-old, and ingested small teaspoons-full of its waters during ancestral rituals while growing up in India.

The Ganges is far more than just a river. It is religion, industry, farming and politics. It is a source of water for millions of people, and an immense septic system that endures millions of ...

India and Bangladesh share 54 transboundary rivers, yet have sharing agreements for only one - the Ganges - which will expire ...

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 ...

Millions of Indians along the banks of the 2,500 km (1,550 mile)-long Ganges depend on the river, but unchecked levels of agricultural, industrial and domestic waste have poured in over the past ...

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports that millions of pilgrims from all over India bathed in the waters of the Ganges River today, the most important date in the six-week-long Hindu festival known as ...

HARIDWAR, India, March 11 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees plunged into India's Ganges river on Thursday as the country kicked off one of the world's largest religious festivals ...

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 ...

ALONG THE GANGES, India — 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.