As Bangladesh and India begin the long, delicate process of discussing the future of the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, the ...

India and Bangladesh on Thursday commenced talks on renewing the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, which is set to expire in ...

Yet, in the high-stakes geopolitical landscape of South Asia, our rivers are increasingly being reconfigured from lifelines ...

Bangladesh Joint Committee observe the water flow at Farakka on 4 March 2025. This monitoring ensures that Bangladesh ...

Gulls land on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, in 2015. (Debal Sen) Sudipta Sen visited Himalayan pilgrim towns along the Ganges River with his family as a 4-year-old, and ingested small teaspoons ...

One day in January 2015, black crows began to fill the gray sky like wild brushstrokes, so a group of villagers decided to investigate. The birds were circling something, and as the villagers ...

Police in India are patrolling the banks of the Ganges River to stop people from dumping corpses of those who died from COVID-19, as the country added over 326,000 new virus infections in the past 24 ...

Already, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cleanup plan for the Ganges river has come in for criticism from various quarters. The sharpest censure came recently from India’s Supreme Court, which observed ...

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 one ...

Indian authorities have put nets up over the Ganges River after bodies of more than 100 COVID-19 victims have washed up — with a viral video seemingly showing ambulance workers dumping some of the ...

The endangered Ganges river dolphin is one of two distinct dolphins living in the rivers of South Asia. The species was first listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...