The Ganges is more than a river. It is a lifeline, a sacred symbol, and a cornerstone of South Asian civilization. But it is ...

LUCKNOW, India-- Authorities were investigating Wednesday how more than 100 bodies, many of them children, ended up floating in an offshoot of the Ganges River in northern India. Officials do not ...

Take a flight of discovery high above the breathtaking beauty of the Ganges River, as this drone footage captures the sacred waters flowing through India. The Ganges holds profound religious ...

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 ...

It is that soft-shouldered time of year in Kolkata, when the rains have gathered their hems and departed, leaving the sun ...

The Ganges River in India is a final resting place for the ashes of loved ones. For those who can't make the journey, a river in Florida has become a substitute for the funeral tradition.

A 3-week-old baby girl was found floating in a wooden box in the Ganges River in India. The newborn baby was overhead crying by a boater who rushed over to the box floating near the banks of the river ...

Worshipped by a billion Hindus and a water source for 400 million, the government is battling to save “Mother Ganga”. A man brushes his teeth as he stands in the polluted water of Ganges river in ...

ALONG THE GANGES, India (AP) — 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 the ...

ALLAHABAD, India – Millions of devout Hindus led by naked ascetics with ash smeared on their bodies plunged into the frigid waters of India's holy Ganges River on Monday in a ritual they believe can ...

The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is drying at a rate scientists say is unprecedented in recorded history. Climate change, shifting monsoons, relentless extraction and ...