ALLAHABAD, India – Millions of Hindu devotees were gathering on the banks of the Ganges River Sunday waiting for the stars to align and signal the best time to wash away their sins in the holy ...

The Ganges river abruptly changed course 2,500 years ago following a devastating earthquake, according to a new study that raises concerns about the prevailing risk of megaquakes in South Asia.

Every twelve years, tens of millions of men, women and children gather on the flood plain of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in Allahabad ... sprinkled into the sacred river; ash is therefore ...