Polluted with waste, the Ganges River is being cleaned by a billion-dollar programme – but are the efforts to clean it ...

Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But pollution, dams and removal of too much water (mostly for agriculture) have affected the flow and health of ...

Sweeping aside thick toxic scum, thousands of Hindu devotees ignored court warnings Thursday against bathing in the sacred ...

Even though millions have been spent to preserve the sacred River Ganges, the pollution level in the river has reached an alarming level. The oxygen level in the river water has dripped to ...

One of India’s most sacred rivers, the Yamuna in New Delhi, is covered with white toxic foam, with vast sections frothing as ...

Forty percent of India gets its water from the Ganges ... a sacred pilgrimage to the river. Tests showed that biochemical oxygen demand (a measure of organic pollution) was double the acceptable ...

The Ganges river is one of the most polluted ... will help shed light on the impact of plastic pollution on the 2,700 kilometre long water body. Their new study shows how plastic bottles, equipped ...

The river in Haridwar itself caught fire in 1984 when someone put a lit match on the water. "Indians are killing the Ganges with pollution and the polluted Ganges, in turn, is killing Indians ...

‘Namami’ – ‘I bow before you’. The Sanskrit word is the namesake of the Namami Gange programme devised by the government in 2014 to help restore the Ganges to health. Progress has been patchy. 40 per ...

NARRATOR: Indians believe the Ganges is sacred and regard its water as holy ... yet it is heavily polluted. The pollution affects the river dolphin population. The pupils discover that the ...

A video showing Chhath devotees immersing themselves in the Yamuna for their ritual bath and washing their hair with the ...

A parliamentary report in February called the Yamuna "more of a toxic waterway than a river ... mighty Ganges, flowing more ...