Our boatman Pramod — a tall, dark, smooth-skinned man with sharply angled features — is waiting for us on the banks of the Ganga. At the ghat, we find women in wet saris and pot-bellied ...

A total of 2,000 Ganga Sevadoots remained deployed across the stretches of ghats to ensure safety, convenience, and cleanliness during the Paush Purnima bathing festival on the first day of ...

The Ganga Seva Nidhi management announced that the Ganga Aarti at Dashashwamedh Ghat would remain suspended till Feb 5 . Similarly, committees organising the Ganga Aarti at Sheetla Ghat ...

Kanpur: The major Ganga ghats have been readied for the Makar Sankranti snan in the city on Tuesday. All arrangements, including the cleanliness and safety measures, have been made at all the 14 ...

Climate change-triggered sea-level rise and erosion have eaten away nearly half of the ghats allocated for the holy bath at Gangasagar ... in the morning hours of the Makar Sankranti day at Ganga ...

Parmarth Niketan Ashram President Swami Chidanand Saraswati said, "Everyone is asked to take a dip at their nearest Ganga Ghat. We have cancelled 'samoohik snan'. Everybody's well-being and ...

From Kolkata's Babughat to Varanasi's Ganga ghats and Haridwar's Har Ki Pauri devotees braved the chilly weather to take holy dips and offer prayers. In West Bengal, devotees performed rituals at ...

In view of the massive rush due the Mahakumbh, authorities have stopped the Ganga Aarti performed at the ghats of Varanasi for the general public till February 5. A large number of devotees ...