Worshippers and tourists sit on boats facing the bank of the Ganges River in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi to watch the Ganga Aarti, a ritual of devotion to the venerated river.

Situated on the west bank of the Ganges River—referred to in Hindi as Ma Ganga (Mother Ganga), or simply Ganga—in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi is India's oldest city and thought ...

NEW DELHI - The World Bank has agreed to loan India $1 billion to help clean the Ganges river, sacred to hundred of millions of Hindus and also one of the most polluted rivers in the world. "The ...

The platform aims to improve coordination and risk management across World Bank-financed projects in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river basin. By placing dolphin conservation at the heart of ...

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The Beatles sought spiritual enlightenment in Rishikesh, a Himalayan mountain town on the banks of the Ganges. These days, it’s a white-water-rafting hub, offering more physical highs.

The Ganges river is one of the world’s most sacred waterways—and one of its most polluted. To restore it, India is undertaking one of the biggest engineering programs in the history of sanitation.

Our boat was a beauty and her name was Sita. For ten days, she was our home on the Ganges – our portal into a world of few boundaries, where Hinduism is palpable and life and death confront the ...

As per the version of the driver of the cab, the two women first went to Princep Ghat, a concrete-structured bank of the Ganges in Kolkata. However, as per the version of the cab driver, after ...

The Ganges rises in the Himalayas and flows for some 1,600 miles, ... spanning the borders of Syria, Jordan, the Palestinian West Bank and Israel. ...

Simply sign up to the World myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A man carries buckets filled with water on the banks of the river Ganges in Allahabad, India. Some 650 million people ...