PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Tens of thousands of naked ... with more than 15 million pilgrims bathing in the holy rivers, according to officials. Over about the next six weeks, the festival is ...

So has India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi ... As a result, they advised against bathing in the Triveni Sangam — the holy confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers located in ...

In India, the river has been given the status of a goddess as people’s faith is associated with it. People also perform worship with the water of the river. Bathing in the Ganga River on ...

BBC - India's longest and most holy river, the Ganges, is home to thousands of dolphins. But their survival is under threat. But these aren't like the ones found in oceans. They don't leap out of the ...

Abu’l Fazal wrote Ain-i-Akbari in which he described Akbar’s love for Gangajal. Akbar used to drink Gangajal which was ...

The pilgrims gather to bathe in the holy Ganges riverside, where sins can be washed away, and perform spiritual rituals. Nalin mainly films in Allahabad near the merging of Ganges and Yamuna rivers ...

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 ...