By Umme Sayeda Rivers, as Bengal’s nurturing mother, shaped the soul of this land and cultural landscape. The ever-flowing ...

The delta is listed among the five most vulnerable globally, alongside the Ganges River Delta (India and Bangladesh), Mississippi River Delta (U.S.), Volta River Delta (Ghana), and Nile River ...

Unlike gradual shifts observed upstream, this historic event occurred in the Ganges Delta, about 200 kilometres from its mouth at the Bay of Bengal. Similar river shifts today could endanger ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

The naga sadhus—the iconic naked holy men of the Kumbh Mela—parade en masse to bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions of pilgrims who have also come to partake in ...

A 40-member team of conservation experts assisted by trained fishermen and veterinarians caught healthy male a Ganges river dolphin and successfully satellite tagged, allowing the scientists to ...

Funeral pyres are lit by the Ganges in Allahabad - bodies have been ... On Monday, at least 40 bodies were pulled from the river some 55km (34 miles) downstream from Gahmar. How the bodies got ...

Workers prepare to join a section of a pontoon bridge over the Ganges river in preparation for the fesitval.(AP: Rajesh Kumar Singh) Planning for such an incredible number of pilgrims can be a ...

They embraced ‘river religion’ as the way ... and other religions’ rooted in the Bengal Delta, flowed from the banks of the Indus to the Ganges. On Manpura Island, a group of fisherfolk ...