The Kumbh Mela is the world's largest religious gathering, attracting hundreds of millions of Hindu worshippers. Here's how India prepared—and what happens once it's all over.

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

The Sanskrit word is the namesake of the Namami Gange programme devised by the government in 2014 to help restore the Ganges to health. Progress has been patchy. 40 per cent of India’s population ...

One of the few clues about the rate of collision between India and Tibet before the GPS measurements were made was the rate of advance of Himalayan sediments across the Ganges plain. There is an ...

Although preceded by two Guptan rulers, Chandragupta I (reign 320-335 CE) is credited with establishing the Gupta Empire in the Ganges River valley in about 320 CE, when he assumed the name of the ...

This display of Indian women’s most idiosyncratic garment — known as the sari — is, however, seen mostly when it is sun-dried right on the sandy banks at the confluence of the Ganges ...

In a move symbolizing deep cultural bonds, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mixed waters from India's sacred Ganges with ...

After an intensive on-the-spot survey for two days of the current status of the flow in the Ganges river at Farakka in West Bengal, technical experts and senior officials of Bangladesh and India ...

The Indian subcontinent is likely to experience an increasing number of extreme weather events in future. The fertile and densely populated plain around the Indus and Ganges rivers is therefore ...

The Ganges is one of 54 rivers shared by India and Bangladesh, and long-standing differences over its water-sharing were resolved with the signing of the Ganga Waters Treaty in December 1996 by ...