The Ganges River holds immense importance for both Bangladesh and India, providing water for agriculture, livelihoods, and ...

KARACHI: Many family members of deceased Hindus whose ashes were kept in urns for years with them or at the Hindu cremation ...

The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

The History Lecture Series hosted their second installment of “River Histories” on Jan. 29 with a lecture presented by ...

Three years ago, when the National River Conservation Commission revealed a mind boggling number of 65,127 grabbers feasting ...

Several people are feared dead and many more injured as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river ...

Devotees take a holy dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati river As we've been reporting, at least 30 people have been killed in a crush at the Kumbh Mela festival ...

DW follows one couple’s spiritual journey to wash away their sins in the Ganges River. Ramesh Chandra promised his wife, Manju, on their wedding day two decades ago that he would take her to ...

A separate administrative district has been set up just for the event, with a sea of 160,000 tents erected along the banks of the Ganges river for devotees to live in. Hindu devotees leave after ...

“At the time her ashes were scattered over River Indus near Sukkur Barrage ... to be scattered over the Ganges. This time, he is going to India after almost nine years and the number of ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India — The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair ... ascetic — at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers in ...