A major aquifer mapping project under the National Mission for Clean Ganga (Namami Gange) in Prayagraj has uncovered a long-lost ancient river in the Ganga-Yamuna Doab, stretching between Prayagraj ...

The river dolphins of India’s sacred Ganges River have long been revered, being written into Hindu religious tracts dating back thousands of years. Although surviving for centuries, today their ...

Map of the Bangladesh (Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna (GBM)) delta. This GBM River system flows through five countries of the South Asian region i.e. Bangladesh, India, China, Bhutan, and Nepal. This ...

A recent conservation initiative is closely monitoring the return of 20 critically endangered red-crowned roofed turtles in India’s Ganga River, where the species was nearly wiped out, reports ...

Gearing up to cleanse river Ganga, the government on Monday decided to initiate a slew of measures, including focusing on polluting drainage systems and to establish Ganga Vahini for spreading message ...

With a view to controlling sand mining and discharge of untreated water in the river Ganga and its tributaries, the Central government is planning to constitute state and district level bodies to ...

To a lesser extent, Buddhism and Jainism. The Pew Research Center found that some Muslims and Christians also believe its waters have healing properties--though this view would be rare and not ...

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It was a few weeks back in Varanasi when I came across Mr S Kumar and a group of his friends taking their daily bathe in the Ganges River. When I suggested that the river might be horribly polluted, ...