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

The Ganges River dolphin, scientifically named Platanista gangetica gangetica, is one of the most unique and charismatic freshwater creatures found in the mighty Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna river ...

A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. But at the festival, where ...

The assessment is part of the WII-NMCG project, which began in 2016 and is scheduled to end in March 2026, and is aimed at devising a comprehensive conservation strategy for the Ganges River dolphins.

Needless to say, the collection has some heavy hitters – Michelangelo and Da Vinci, for instance – but also boasts 100 watercolour paintings from Canadian artists. Tough’s Royal HBC was ...

To participate, people travel from all over India and the world to the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, a sacred site that is also said to be the end point of a mythical third river ...

Credit: Ninara / CC BY 2.0 India’s Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious festival, began Monday, January 13, as millions of Hindu devotees gathered along the Ganges River. The festival, held every ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read more about the festival here. Hundreds of millions of pilgrims are expected to take part in ritual baths at the site of India's sacred Ganges river, Yamuna river and the mythical Saraswati ...

Photojournalist Ankit Srinivas brings you some sights from the festival: The devout will bathe at Sangam - the confluence of India's most sacred Ganges river with the Yamuna river and the mythical ...

The event - held once every 12 years - starts on Monday and over the next six weeks, the devout will bathe at Sangam - the confluence of India's most sacred Ganges river with the Yamuna river and ...