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 ...

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 ...

The world record for a volunteer river clean-up has been smashed by 998 with 1,327 people taking part. The previous record ...

2. The Ganges is the longest river in India, stretching over 2,525 kilometres (1,569 miles) from its source in the Himalayas to its delta in the Bay of Bengal ...

Sue Perkins undertakes an epic, personal journey to the source of India's Ganges river in the Himalayas, meeting hermits and holy men to understand the sacred nature of this river.

The naga sadhus—the iconic naked holy men of the Kumbh Mela—parade en masse to bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions of pilgrims who have also come to partake in ...

The Ganges is one of the world’s biggest rivers, and seven times the size of the river Severn, the UK's longest river. They discover that the source of the Ganges is in the Himalayas and the ...

Locally known as Sihu, this marks the first recorded presence of the species in the river since 1998, ending a 25-year absence. The prolonged disappearance of the Ganges dolphin from this waterway ...

The distinctively pink Amazon river dolphin is over 2.5 metres long. The equally large Ganges river dolphin has a widespread habitat, and is found in the main bodies and some tributaries of the ...

The Environment Ministry on March 3, commemorated as World Wildlife Day, released a report by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), a Ministry body, that said there are 6,324 Ganges river ...

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 ...