Millions of people will flock to the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati rivers during a festival called the Maha Kumbh Mela. In 2025, between January 13 and February 26, ...

A Christmas event scheduled to be held at a hotel run by the Uttar Pradesh Tourism Department on the banks of the Ganges in ...

Imagine a city where past and present come together on the shores of a holy river, a place where every road has tales dating back thousands of years, and the spirit runs as free as the waters of the ...

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 ...

FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective suit touches the body of his relative, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), before his cremation on the banks of the river Ganges at Garhmukteshwar ...

Varanasi rests on the banks of the Ganges River, in one of India’s poorest states, Uttar Pradesh. In Hinduism, it is the holiest of sacred cities. Passing away on the modest steps beside the river is ...

No fewer than 131 gharials, the critically endangered long-snouted crocodile native to the Northern Indian sub-continent, were recently re-introduced to the river Ganges at the Hastinapur Wildlife ...

Inspired Menu and Inventive Cocktails, Kashi Joins New York City’s Growing Wave of Next-Gen Indian Restaurants ...

Lucknow has witnessed many histories. Whispers of nawabs and poets, of rebellion and resilience, have seeped into its very ...

VARANASI, India — Shivam Chaudhari dreams of working with computers, maybe one day in Dubai. Instead, he says, he’s condemned to cremating bodies here on the banks of the Ganges River. He has applied, ...

More scenes out of India horrified the world on Monday after it was reported that dozens of dead bodies had drifted onto the banks of the River Ganges in Chausa village in the Buxar district of the ...