First census of Gangetic dolphins finds 6,327 in Ganga and tributaries, highlighting conservation challenges and efforts.

Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, is a beautiful small hill station, famous among tourists for its Buddhist monasteries, natural scenery and rich culture. Rumtek Monastery, Tsomgo Lake and Nathula Pass ...

Lack of winter rains has adversely affected the wheat and barley crops. The large number of women farmers who work here in small farm holdings are already apprehensive about this unseasonal weather.

Local health workers also lacked reagents to test for mpox, a disease formerly known as monkeypox, which Browder called “one of the most horrible ways to die ... s Ganges River was taken ...

To die in Varanasi is believed to give a soul immediate Moksha. One of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the world, it lies on the banks of the sacred River Ganges. Renowned for its ghats ...

After an intensive on-the-spot survey for two days of the current status of the flow in the Ganges river at Farakka in West Bengal, technical experts and senior officials of Bangladesh and India ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is expected to play a crucial role in the efforts to renew the Ganges water-sharing treaty, even as she continues to oppose the Teesta River water ...

Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that contaminated a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after ...

The two women, mother and daughter, were identified as Falguni Ghosh and Aarati Ghosh Kolkata: Two women were arrested on the banks of the Ganges in ... of a woman in the river.

The spill happened on Feb. 18 when a tailings dam that holds acidic waste from a copper mine in the north of the country ...

The temple’s proximity to the Ganges River adds to its sanctity. Devotees often take a holy dip in the river before entering the temple for darshan. The night of Mahashivratri at this temple is ...