‘Namami’ – ‘I bow before you’. The Sanskrit word is the namesake of the Namami Gange programme devised by the government in 2014 to help restore the Ganges to health. Progress has been patchy. 40 per ...

Sweeping aside thick toxic scum, thousands of Hindu devotees ignored court warnings Thursday against bathing in the sacred ...

A parliamentary report in February called the Yamuna "more of a toxic waterway than a river ... mighty Ganges, flowing more ...