India and Bangladesh share 54 transboundary rivers, yet have sharing agreements for only one - the Ganges - which will expire ...

The river dolphins of India’s sacred Ganges River have long been revered, being written into Hindu religious tracts dating back thousands of years. Although surviving for centuries, today their ...

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

The Ganges is one of the world’s most revered watercourses, a lifeline millions of Indians, but it is also the most polluted river in the world. Jyotsna Singh talks to the FT’s Victor Mallet ...

The Ganges is far more than just a river. It is religion, industry, farming and politics. It is a source of water for millions of people, and an immense septic system that endures millions of ...

Life on the Ganges: The mystics, street children and pilgrims who spend their lives on the banks of India's most sacred river The ghats are the local name given to the steps that lead down to the ...

The Kumbh Mela is a Hindu pilgrimage where millions gather on the banks of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India to bathe in ...

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 ...

The alleyways eventually churn me out on the banks of the Ganges. Cremations take place on funeral pyres at the river’s “burning ghats”, the most auspicious of which is the Manikarnika Ghat.

Tom Heap travels the banks of the river Ganges in India, to find out what can be done to save this holy site from severe pollution Show more Tom Heap travels the banks of the river Ganges in India ...

The new Ganges research also echoes recent studies tracing PPCPs on European glaciers, where researchers traced chemical pollutants to the use of perfumes in personal care products like soap.