Over 2,500 odd kilometers this river meanders, flowing through the lives of over 500 million people, enabling a vast basin spread over Nepal, India and Bangladesh. Historically, the rich silt the river carried attracted millions to flock to it. The river

The popular Hindi saying

Ganga plumbs new depths in its journey through Varanasi

Major lacunae have been detected in the functioning of the Ganga Action Plan (gap). The public accounts committee (pac) of parliament came down heavily on the government for diverting funds earmarked

Lack of coherent research on the melting Gangotri glacier spells disaster

The Indo-Gangetic plains are drained by several fan and interfan rivers fringing the margin of the outer Himalaya. These fan and interfan river systems are distinctly different from each other in terms of hydrology and sediment transport and generate typical