Shobha Rao’s new novel, “Indian Country,” is a crime story as well as a multilayered saga of white empire in India and ...

Some 660 million pilgrims journeyed to the banks of the River Ganges over 44 days during Kumbh Mela, the religious Hindu ...

A Son’s Exploration of Faith” unfolds like a slow and reflective drift down India’s holiest river. One that becomes a living metaphor for the tension between inherited belief and personal doubt.

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 ...

In "Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River," Sudipta Sen provides a cultural history of the Ganges, considered the earthly embodiment of Vishnu, where devout Hindus go to be blessed, and where ...

ALLAHABAD, INDIA — Among believers, the river has many names: The Pure. Destroyer of Sin. Light Amid the Darkness of Ignorance. But mostly they call it “Ganga Ma” -- Mother Ganges -- and ...

Hindus believe that a dip in the Ganges erases all sins. Men, women, the young and the old, happily shed all inhibitions for a soul-cleansing plunge in the spiritually pure, if physically foul, water.

The River Ganges is filled with antibiotic resistant bacteria even in stretches which are high in the mountains away from India's cities, scientists have found. The 1,560-mile (2,510km) long river ...

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 ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India, June 25 (Reuters) - More corpses are washing up on the banks of the Ganges in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, as rains swell the river and expose bodies buried in ...

India has overtaken Japan as home to the most billionaires in Asia. Yet it also has the world's largest population of hungry people, as one reporter's continuing journey down the Ganges River reveals.