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 ...

A luxury ship will make history when it embarks from the Indian spiritual city of Varanasi on Friday on a voyage that the country ... along the Ganges, India’s holiest river, and other waterways ...

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 ...

(Altaf Qadri/Associated Press) 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 ...

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 ...