Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, led by naked, ash-covered holy men, streamed into the sacred river Ganges yesterday at the start of the world's biggest religious festival. The Kumbh Mela in the ...

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 ...

HARIDWAR (India) — Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims descended on the banks of the Ganges river Thursday (Jan 14) trusting in faith rather than masks to shield them against the coronavirus ...

Millions of devout Hindus have plunged into the waters of India's sacred Ganges River in a religious ritual that they believe will wash away their sins. Heads of monasteries and ash-smeared naked ...

New Delhi: The Ganges is the most sacred river to Hindus and it is worshipped as the goddess Ganga in Hinduism. The Ganges is the embodiment of all sacred waters in Hindu mythology. Let's look at the ...

Its backers describe it as the "world's biggest ever mythological theme park". Hindu gods such as Ram, Hanuman and Krishna will be the central attractions for a 'Disneyland on the Ganges' in India.

In 1976, a mass procession led by a nearly 80-year-old peasant leader, Maulana Bhasani, from Dhaka to the Indo-Bangladesh Border drew huge attention from national and international media. It ...

The Ganges River - Ganga in Hindi - begins over 3,000 meters above sea level on the Indian side of the snow-capped Himalayan mountains, but for many its story begins in the matted hair of Lord Shiva.