More than 400 urns containing the ashes of deceased Pakistani Hindus have finally been sent to Wagah border for onward travel to Haridwar in Indian state of Utterkhand where the ashes will be immersed ...

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

Mauni Amavasya also known as Magha Amavasya holds deep spiritual importance, merging ceremonies, devotion, and tranquility ...

Several people are feared dead and many more injured as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 400 million Hindu pilgrims from around the globe gathered to bathe in and around the Ganges in the religion’s biggest display of unity. By John Yoon and Hari Kumar Tens of millions of ...

We begin long before recorded history with the first human journey ... Forward again to the Ganges plain and the "Age of Heroes" in time of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata.

Millions continued to throng the site even as police urged them to avoid the area. Deadly stampedes are relatively common ...

From lazy strolls through ancient alleys to sacred rituals along the Ganges, Varanasi in winter promises memories of a ...