In the mornings in Varanasi, the air on the banks of the Ganges fills with the scent of burning bodies. On the steps of the Manikarnika ghat—the holiest of the city’s stepped riverbanks, upon which ...

Millions of devotees gathered at Gangasagar in West Bengal on Makar Sankranti to take a holy dip in the Ganges River.

Indian authorities have put nets up over the Ganges River after bodies of more than 100 COVID-19 victims have washed up — with a viral video seemingly showing ambulance workers dumping some of the ...

Mehebub Sahana receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. He is affiliated with The University of Manchester, UK. The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South ...

People watch unclaimed bodies burn on funeral pyres at a mass crematorium site on the banks of the Ganges River. Getty Images Dozens of rotting bodies were discovered floating in the Ganges River in ...

More scenes out of India horrified the world on Monday after it was reported that dozens of dead bodies had drifted onto the banks of the River Ganges in Chausa village in the Buxar district of the ...

Dozens of dead bodies have washed ashore along the banks of the Ganges river in India as the nation of over 1 billion people continues to battle against an unprecedented second wave of COVID-19.

A new study suggests an earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.5 or 8 shook the Indian subcontinent 2,500 years ago, changing the course of the Ganges. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Millions of devotees took a holy dip in the Ganges River at Gangasagar, on the auspicicous occasion of Makar Sankranti on Thursday. After bathing in the Ganges, the devotees offered prayers at the ...