Explore the enchanting water routes of India through the peaceful backwaters of Kerala, the grand Brahmaputra of Assam, the ...

Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is a land blessed by nature, featuring an extensive network of rivers and streams. The region is home ...

The autumnal Ganges floods had receded at Allahabad, baring a five-square-mile mud flat where three sacred rivers join—the muddy Ganges, the blue Jumna, and the Saraswati, which, according to Hindu ...

In India, severe water shortages in one part of the country often coincide with acute flooding in another. When these dual tragedies occur, Indians are often left wishing for a way to balance out the ...

Ridding the Ganges of thousands of tons of plastic trash is a complex puzzle. India is starting to put the pieces together. Two rivers, the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda, converge in the western ...

KOCHI, India — Eloor smells like it is dying. Once it was an island of rich farmland on the Periyar River, 10.5 miles from the Arabian Sea, teeming with fish. Now, a stench of putrid flesh permeates ...

The Ganga River, which sustains the lives of at least 600 million people, is facing its worst dry spell and lowest streamflow in 1,300 years, according to a recent study, reports Mongabay India’s ...

In the mornings in Varanasi, the air on the banks of the Ganges fills with the scent of burning bodies. On the steps of the Manikarnika ghat—the holiest of the city’s stepped riverbanks, upon which ...