India and Bangladesh have commenced discussions to renew the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, which expires in December 2026.

India and Bangladesh on Thursday began joint water measurement on the Padma and the Ganga rivers as the 30-year Ganges Water ...

India and Bangladesh are conducting joint water measurements on the Padma and Ganga rivers as the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty enters its final year. The initiative aims to record water levels every 10 ...

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 group of scientists studying the flow of plastic into the ocean have found a startling amount of pollution exiting South Asia's largest river systems. The scientists calculated that the Ganges and ...

India’s largest and most sacred river remains filthy this year on World Rivers Day, with activists citing little progress in ongoing efforts to clean the waterway up. The cleaning of the Ganges has ...

The endangered Ganges river dolphin is one of two distinct dolphins living in the rivers of South Asia. The species was first listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

Worshipped by a billion Hindus and a water source for 400 million, the government is battling to save “Mother Ganga”. A man brushes his teeth as he stands in the polluted water of Ganges river in ...

Over the past two decades, holy men in India have gone on dozens of fasts demanding governments honour their promise to revive the polluted Ganges, a river revered by Hindus. The recent death of one ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is just after dawn and hundreds of Hindu worshippers are surging through a holiday market to pay their ...

Signed in 1996 between India and Bangladesh, the 30-year Ganges Water Sharing Treaty is set to expire in December 2026.