Ganges River

The United Nations (UN) has recognised the Namami Gange initiative to rejuvenate river Ganga as one of the top 10 World Restoration Flagships aimed at reviving the natural world and awarded the project's Director General, G. Asok Kumar.

Amid incessant heavy rains in parts of Bihar, an elephant on Tuesday was recorded swimming across the Ganges with a mahout on its back.

An adorable video of three North American river otters is gaining traction on social media. It shows the beautiful creatures frolicking in a bucket of ice.

Gangasagar Mela: Nearly one million devotees are expected to gather on the banks of the Ganges river this Friday and Saturday for a holy bathe despite galloping COVID-19 infections across the country, an official told Reuters on Tuesday.

The north Indian town of Haridwar, where the Ganges River flows out of the Himalayas onto India's vast plains, has been for centuries a destination for pilgrims. For three days in December, it also played host to what the media has called a "hate-spe

Partly hidden between long reeds of grass, bodies shrouded in cloth float silently down the holy Ganges river, a reminder of how ferocious coronavirus wave overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums.

More bodies were found floating in the river Ganga in Uttar Pradesh today, this time in Varanasi. Some of the bodies were half-burnt when they washed up on the banks, possibly pulled off pyres and thrown into the river, officials say.

Authorities in northern India said they have installed a net across the Ganges river after the bodies of dozens of suspected COVID-19 victims washed up.

Hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotees flocked on Monday to take a holy bath in Ganges river in Uttarakhan's Haridwar, even as the nation racked up the world's highest tally of new daily coronavirus infections.

Thousands of devotees, some of them without masks, gathered by the river Ganges in Uttarakhand's Haridwar on Sunday in densely packed crowds for prayers during the Kumbh Mela - one of the largest religious gatherings in the world.

Plastic pollution from discarded fishing gear in the Ganges River poses a threat to wildlife such as the critically endangered three-striped roofed turtle and the endangered Ganges river dolphin, according to an international team, including researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India.

Kartik Purnima 2020: Kartik Purnima would be celebrated on 30th November 2020, Kartik Purnima also coincides with lunar eclipse or Chandra Grahan this year.

An elusive Ganges river dolphin was rescued in Uttar Pradesh yesterday after it lost its way and became stranded in a canal.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated six sewage treatment plants worth over Rs 500 crore in Uttarakhand under the 'Namami Gange' mission, saying with the projects' completion the sewage treatment capacity of the state has gone up nearly four-fold in six years.

Bihar News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said under the 'Namami Gange' mission, development of more than 180 ghats along the Ganga river is going on. The Prime Minister inaugurated urban infrastructure projects in Bihar via video conference.

The United Nations (UN) has recognised the Namami Gange initiative to rejuvenate river Ganga as one of the top 10 World Restoration Flagships aimed at reviving the natural world and awarded the project's Director General, G. Asok Kumar.

Amid incessant heavy rains in parts of Bihar, an elephant on Tuesday was recorded swimming across the Ganges with a mahout on its back.

An adorable video of three North American river otters is gaining traction on social media. It shows the beautiful creatures frolicking in a bucket of ice.

Gangasagar Mela: Nearly one million devotees are expected to gather on the banks of the Ganges river this Friday and Saturday for a holy bathe despite galloping COVID-19 infections across the country, an official told Reuters on Tuesday.

The north Indian town of Haridwar, where the Ganges River flows out of the Himalayas onto India's vast plains, has been for centuries a destination for pilgrims. For three days in December, it also played host to what the media has called a "hate-spe

Partly hidden between long reeds of grass, bodies shrouded in cloth float silently down the holy Ganges river, a reminder of how ferocious coronavirus wave overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums.

More bodies were found floating in the river Ganga in Uttar Pradesh today, this time in Varanasi. Some of the bodies were half-burnt when they washed up on the banks, possibly pulled off pyres and thrown into the river, officials say.

Authorities in northern India said they have installed a net across the Ganges river after the bodies of dozens of suspected COVID-19 victims washed up.

Hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotees flocked on Monday to take a holy bath in Ganges river in Uttarakhan's Haridwar, even as the nation racked up the world's highest tally of new daily coronavirus infections.

Thousands of devotees, some of them without masks, gathered by the river Ganges in Uttarakhand's Haridwar on Sunday in densely packed crowds for prayers during the Kumbh Mela - one of the largest religious gatherings in the world.

Plastic pollution from discarded fishing gear in the Ganges River poses a threat to wildlife such as the critically endangered three-striped roofed turtle and the endangered Ganges river dolphin, according to an international team, including researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India.

Kartik Purnima 2020: Kartik Purnima would be celebrated on 30th November 2020, Kartik Purnima also coincides with lunar eclipse or Chandra Grahan this year.

An elusive Ganges river dolphin was rescued in Uttar Pradesh yesterday after it lost its way and became stranded in a canal.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated six sewage treatment plants worth over Rs 500 crore in Uttarakhand under the 'Namami Gange' mission, saying with the projects' completion the sewage treatment capacity of the state has gone up nearly four-fold in six years.

Bihar News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said under the 'Namami Gange' mission, development of more than 180 ghats along the Ganga river is going on. The Prime Minister inaugurated urban infrastructure projects in Bihar via video conference.