The Ganges River — Ganga in Hindi — is the lifeblood of more than 600 million people in India and Bangladesh. Farmers depend on the river for their crops. Millions depend on its water for washing, ...

Sudipta Sen visited Himalayan pilgrim towns along the Ganges River with his family as a 4-year-old, and ingested small teaspoons-full of its waters during ancestral rituals while growing up in India.

Worshipped by a billion Hindus and a water source for 400 million, the government is battling to save “Mother Ganga”. A man brushes his teeth as he stands in the polluted water of Ganges river in ...

ALONG THE GANGES, IndiaALONG THE GANGES, India — 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.

SWEPT overboard by the churning rapids of the Ganges River, our rafting mate struggled in his life jacket and helmet to get back to our boat, terror flashing in his ...

Considering this holiday favourite is home to over 400 rivers and nearly 5,000 miles of coastline, India was a relative ...

The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is drying at a rate scientists say is unprecedented in recorded history. Climate change, shifting monsoons, relentless extraction and ...

Ice of the Indian Himalayas melts faster than ever as climate changes. CHHOTA SHIGRI GLACIER, INDIAN HIMALAYAS, August 08, 2008 -- In the Indian Himalayas, you can literally hear the glaciers melting.

In 2004, NPR's Vice President for Legal Affairs, Neal Jackson, traveled to India with producers Julian and Martine Crandall Hollick to gather material for their radio series on the river Ganges. Read ...

For centuries, the Ganges and its tributaries have sustained one of the world’s most densely populated regions. Stretching from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, the whole river basin supports over ...