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While in Rishikesh, our morning and evening yoga practices were held in a small studio overlooking the Ganges, a river highly revered by most Indians.
A woman waits for tourists where the river meets the sea in Bakkhali, West Bengal. At low tide, people living along the riverbanks in Haridwar, Uttrakhand, use sticks to clobber and catch fish.
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 ...
A magician has been found dead in the River Ganges after a chains escape stunt went horribly wrong.
ALONG THE GANGES, India — More than 2,000 years ago, a powerful king built a fort on the banks of India’s holiest river, on the fringes of what is now a vast industrial city. Today, little of ...
Dozens of rotting bodies were discovered floating in the Ganges River in India on Monday as the country's COVID-19 crisis overwhelmed crematoriums and burial grounds.
Scientists have uncovered evidence that a massive earthquake rerouted the Ganges River 2,500 years ago in what’s now Bangladesh.
The Ganges has many tributaries - so many, in fact, that the river basin covers Tibet, Nepal, India and Bangladesh.
The third report in a six-part series follows India's Ganges River between Kanpur and Varanasi, a stretch where Hindus come to cleanse themselves of sins and remember a great Indian epic.