Devi wanted to die on her own terms, namely in the most important Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi in northern India where Hindus have gone to be cremated next to the holy river Ganges for ...

Funeral pyres are lit by the Ganges in Allahabad, where bodies have been washing downstream for days India's holiest river, the Ganges, has been swollen with bodies in recent days. Hundreds of ...

As we know, different rivers flow in India. Some rivers flow from north to south, some from east to west, and some from west ...

The festival of Dev Diwali is celebrated on the banks of Ganga. During this time, bathing and charity are also considered to ...

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 ...

Footage caught from the banks of a river that many consider to be holy shows people bathing, despite toxic foam taking over ...

While India is best known by tourists for wonders like the Taj Mahal, our six-month sojourn brought us to many lesser-known religious sights including the source of the sacred Ganges River in ...

Unlike Steinbeck’s defamed ‘salt-water-eating bushes’ of the Sea of Cortez, the Sunderbans is an excellent forest treasure ...

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 ...

Devi wanted to die on her own terms, namely in the most important Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi in northern India where ...