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

The Promise of the Kumbh Mela According to a tradition that reaches back to the foundations of Hinduism, a ritual dip in the ...

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of ...

The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, ...

The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, ...

Tens of thousands of people at a massive religious gathering in India rushed to take a holy bath in the country’s northern ...

The ACRC is responsible for maintaining 1,800 miles of roadway and 154 bridges throughout the county. The roads are broken up ...

Across the approximately 35,000 sq km of the Ganga basin in Uttarakhand, an unsustainable level of human intervention has already made the region extremely vulnerable. Hydropower dams are a dangerous ...

(AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Hindu women devotees pray after taking bath at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the ...

The country's government has announced that it is offering a whopping $1 million prize to anyone who can crack the mysterious ...

Winter has been erratic this year, with fluctuating temperatures. The Alipore Meteorological Department has issued a ...