Three men travelling in a taxi allegedly fell to their death when Google Maps led them down a bridge that had been broken in ...

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

Reports of flames and an explosion sent crews from all three Salt Spring fire stations to an early morning blaze that ...

That river was none other than the Ganges. This breakthrough discovery about changing courses of rivers is known as avulsions in scientific terminology. Rivers have always been changing their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every twelve years, tens of millions of men, women and children gather on the flood plain of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in Allahabad, India, for the Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of humanity ...

Over the past two decades, holy men in India have gone on dozens of fasts demanding governments honour their promise to revive the polluted Ganges, a river revered by Hindus. The recent death of ...

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 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 ...

DUA: Where does the river end? MAP SELLER: Huh? DUA: Where does the river end? The Ganges. MAP SELLER: It’s in the Bay of Bengal. NARRATOR: The Ganges begins its two and half thousand kilometre ...