Winter weather took hold across the Indo-Gangetic Plain in early January 2026, bringing dense fog and cold temperatures to ...

Bangladesh’s election, Hasina’s presence in India and Dhaka’s signing of the UN water convention could complicate the 1996 ...

Since the commencement of the Magh Mela in Prayagraj, the number of devotees in the holy city of Kashi has increased significantly and crowds of devotees are thronging the Ganga ghats for a holy dip.

Yet, in the high-stakes geopolitical landscape of South Asia, our rivers are increasingly being reconfigured from lifelines ...

Bangladesh Joint Committee observe the water flow at Farakka on 4 March 2025. This monitoring ensures that Bangladesh ...

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 ...

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 ancient construction remains, ...

Barrackpore: A middle-aged woman slipped into the Ganges at the Barrackpore ferry ghat on December 17. CCTV footage of the ...

The Ganges is one of the greatest rivers on Earth, but it is dying. From the icy Himalayan peaks, where it begins, right down to the Bay of Bengal, it is being slowly poisoned. The Ganges is revered ...

The endangered Ganges river dolphin is one of two distinct dolphins living in the rivers of South Asia. The species was first listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...