Devi wanted to die on her own terms, namely in the most important Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi in northern India where Hindus have gone to be cremated next to the holy river Ganges for ...

Varanasi of India, one of the world's oldest cities, is a popular tourist destination rich in cultural heritage. The millions ...

Funeral pyres are lit by the Ganges in Allahabad, where bodies have been washing downstream for days India's holiest river, the Ganges, has been swollen with bodies in recent days. Hundreds of ...

The Ganges River, revered as the goddess Ganga, is central to Hindu culture for its purification powers. It supports millions ...

The pilgrimage site in India attracts tourists from around the world – and many Hindus seeking salvation. Some of them want ...

NARRATOR: The Ganges begins its two and half thousand kilometre journey in the Himalayas, travelling rapidly down the mountains to the flat plains of India. It’s one of the world’s biggest ...

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 ...

While India is best known by tourists for wonders like the Taj Mahal, our six-month sojourn brought us to many lesser-known religious sights including the source of the sacred Ganges River in ...

India's revered Ganges and Yamuna rivers cannot be viewed as living entities, the Supreme Court has ruled. It overruled an order made in March by the High Court in Uttarakhand state, which said ...