The History Lecture Series hosted their second installment of “River Histories” on Jan. 29 with a lecture presented by ...

A mother’s love is said to be pure and unconditional—a shield that protects her children from every harm. But what if that ...

As a historian of the Ganga and its ecology ... evidence of a major epidemic at the Kumbh in recorded history. Faith in the river’s purity has also been emboldened by research on high levels ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to WWF, the population of Ganges River Dolphin, once present in tens of thousands of numbers, has dwindled abysmally to less than 2,000 during the last century owing to direct killing ...

Across the approximately 35,000 sq km of the Ganga basin in Uttarakhand, an unsustainable level of human intervention has already made the region extremely vulnerable. Hydropower dams are a dangerous ...

On Ganga Saptami in most of the Hindu pilgrimage places where River Ganga passes, like Triveni Sangam in Allahabad and Rishikesh, special pujas and prayers are offered by devotees. It is celebrated ...

Terming the dredging of river Ganga an act of "environmental ... The Kannauj MP shared on X a news clip of dredging in the Ganga for the Maha Kumbh. "History has been a witness that rivers create ...