renowned climate activist Sonam Wangchuk urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to set up a commission to assess the state of the Himalayas glaciers to save India’s sacred rivers. Admiring Modi’s ...

In this series, HT takes a look at the complicated relationship that the Capital shares with the Yamuna as it journeys ...

"India needs to take a lead in glacier preservation as we have the Himalayas, and our sacred rivers such as the Ganga ... like Gangotri and Yamunotri as national treasures, and framing special ...

Union Minister JP Nadda and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath took a holy dip at the Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. The sacred site, where the Ganga, Yamuna, and the ...

could not eliminate the possibility of circulation of anti-colonial nationalist ideas that found fertile ground in the sea of humanity assembled next to sacred rivers. The close involvement of the ...

Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 26 (ANI): The Mahakumbh ... draws millions of pilgrims who bathe in sacred rivers seeking to purify themselves from sins and attain spiritual liberation.

(ANI and PTI) At the Kumbh fairs, devotees from different Hindu sects, or ‘Akharas’, take part in grand processions to perform the 'Shahi Snan' or royal bath in the sacred rivers at the above ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... farm settlement in the north of India began to prepare themselves for their sacred vows. They squatted side by ...

As a Sydney architect and urbanist with knowledge of planning and building our Olympics 2000, I became fascinated with the logistics of this event and eager to understand how India’s national ...

I believe this is the dawn of a new era, which will script the future of a new India. For thousands of years, the Mahakumbh has strengthened India’s national consciousness. Every Purnakumbh used ...

Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Paatil ceremonially bathed at the confluence of three sacred rivers ... and mythical Saraswati rivers, asserting the importance of the Ganga in India's cultural and ...