NEW DELHI – India's main environmental agency Thursday banned the dumping of any kind of waste within 500 meters (yards) of the most polluted parts of the Ganges, a river considered sacred by devout ...

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 they worship ...

11 million expected to bathe in river 50%2C000 police deployed to keep order It%27s one of the world%27s largest religious gatherings ALLAHABAD, India (AP) — Millions of devout Hindus led by naked ...

Indian authorities have put nets up over the Ganges River after bodies of more than 100 COVID-19 victims have washed up — with a viral video seemingly showing ambulance workers dumping some of the ...

Gulls land on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, in 2015. (Debal Sen) Sudipta Sen visited Himalayan pilgrim towns along the Ganges River with his family as a 4-year-old, and ingested small teaspoons ...

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There’s a dreamlike quality to Giulio Di Sturco’s photograph of Hindus preparing to bathe in the Ganges. Taken in soft morning light, the image shows devotees assembled by the river, their figures ...

The sight of fasting devotees offering prayers together at sunset and sunrise, accompanied by the chanting of sacred mantras, ...

The Ganges river, flows through the most populous areas of the northeastern and eastern parts of the south asian region. Its basin is spread over China, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. The flow of the ...

Tens of millions of Hindus gathered Sunday for a holy bath in India’s sacred river Ganges on the most auspicious day of the world’s largest religious festival. Ash-smeared naked saints led the ritual ...

Nearly half a million Hindus braved near-freezing temperatures to wash away their sins in the icy waters of the Ganges river in northern India on Wednesday, the first day of a six-week festival. As ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is just after dawn and hundreds of Hindu worshippers are surging through a holiday market to pay their ...