Bangladesh said talks with India on renewing the 1996 Ganges Water Treaty are progressing positively. The December deadline ...

In 1976, a mass procession led by a nearly 80-year-old peasant leader, Maulana Bhasani, from Dhaka to the Indo-Bangladesh Border drew huge attention from national and international media. It ...

State Minister Shama Obaed Islam asserts positive talks with India on renewing the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty crucial for ...

More than 2,000 years ago, a powerful king built a fort on the banks of India's holiest river, on the fringes of what is now a vast industrial city. Today, little of the ancient construction remains, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though officially abolished decades ago, the caste system still profoundly influences life in India. Those born into high castes ...

India and Bangladesh sharing 54 trans-boundary rivers as a result water dispute is a main concern between them. However, the conflict has been primarily centered on the sharing of the waters of Ganges ...

India’s largest and most sacred river remains filthy this year on World Rivers Day, with activists citing little progress in ongoing efforts to clean the waterway up. The cleaning of the Ganges has ...

Few rivers carry as much weight, literally and otherwise, as the Ganga. It is sacred to over a billion Hindus, the backbone of agriculture and fisheries across one of the most densely populated river ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have provided reliable regional estimates of land subsidence and water-level rise in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta. Depending on the region of the delta, ...