The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

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 ...

Watch: Millions take a holy dip on day two of India's Mahakumbh Mela Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at dawn on the first most significant bathing ...

The event - held once every 12 years - starts on Monday and over the next six weeks, the devout will bathe at Sangam - the confluence of India's most sacred Ganges river with the Yamuna river and ...

GalleryAccording to the Indian government ... The flow of the Ganges symbolizes amrita, and celebrations take place around the river. The main event of the festival is the immersion in the ...

(AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) PRAYAGRAJ, Uttar Pradesh: India is expecting about 400 million ... with a sea of 160,000 tents erected along the banks of the Ganges river for devotees to live in.

In a first, India has tagged a healthy male Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) in Assam, which will help chalk out a long-term conservation plan for the endangered species ...

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 ...