The owners of three Sarasota area Indian restaurants — one named the second best restaurant in Florida by Yelp in 2023 — ...

Horrifying images have emerged of hundreds of saffron cloth-shrouded bodies of COVID-19 victims floating along India’s Ganges River after the start of the seasonal monsoon flooding dislodged the ...

ALLAHABAD, INDIA — Among believers, the river has many names: The Pure. Destroyer of Sin. Light Amid the Darkness of Ignorance. But mostly they call it “Ganga Ma” -- Mother Ganges -- and they worship ...

Thousands of Hindu devotees plunged into India’s Ganges river as the country kicked off one of the world’s largest religious festivals, even as officials reported a spike of COVID-19 cases.

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, ...

The loudspeaker blares and more than 50 kayakers launch into the jade green River Ganges at once. This is the grand finale of the Ganga Kayak Festival. Known as the “mass boater cross,” the spectacle ...

SUJABAD, India - Two weeks ago, as dawn broke over the Ganges river in this waterfront community, someone noticed several bodies in the shallows, the first of hundreds that would be found floating or ...

Gulls land on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, in 2015. (Debal Sen) Sudipta Sen visited Himalayan pilgrim towns along the Ganges River with his family as a 4-year-old, and ingested small teaspoons ...

A frightening video from Bihar, India, shows bodies floating in the Ganges River, some having drifted ashore on the ghats, some in a half-decomposed state. They are suspected to be COVID-19 fatalities ...

NEW DELHI — Scores of dead bodies have been found floating down the Ganges River in eastern India as the country battles a ferocious surge in coronavirus infections. Authorities said Tuesday they hadn ...

Police in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state have arrested three people allegedly involved in the killing of the endangered Ganges river dolphin after a video of the grim incident went viral on ...