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Ganges under threat from climate change The river Ganges holds deep religious and ritualistic significance for Indias million of Hindus. But climate change is endangering the holy river, reports Jasvinder Sehgal. The sun is setting in Rishikesh, an Indian city in the Himalayan foothills. Hundreds of people have converged on the banks of the Ganges to sing hymns in praise of the goddess of the sacred river. One group sits around a pyre to perform the yajna — a religious ritual carried out eve...

COVID-19: Indias infections slow but deaths mount Indian police on Sunday were reaching out to villagers in the north of the country after hundreds of corpses were found in shallow sand graves or washed up on the banks of the the Ganges River. Recent reports of large numbers of people falling ill in villages, and then putting dead bodies in the river, comes as COVID-19 has seemingly spread to Indias rural hinterland, where 70% of its 1.3 billion people live. Police used loudspeakers a...

 Images of corpses drifting down the Ganges river, which Hindus consider holy, have shocked the nation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been silent as India endures one of the worst outbreaks of coronavirus in the world.

Aid agency deplores shortage of medical facilities in rural areas

Indian Authorities Place Net Across Ganges River to Catch Dead Bodies Washing Ashore On 5/13/21 at 4:42 PM EDT More scenes out of India horrified the world on Monday after it was reported that dozens of dead bodies had drifted onto the banks of the River Ganges in Chausa village in the Buxar district of the eastern state of Bihar. Now, authorities have apparently placed a "net" in the river to catch the corpses of the suspected COVID victims. On Wednesday, Sanjay Kumar Jha, Bihar state minister...

Express News Service PATNA/LUCKNOW: The number of dead bodies retrieved from the banks of Ganga in Bihar’s Buxar district rose to 71 on Tuesday. The district administration, with the help of local divers and boatmen, fished out all the bodies that were found floating and stuck along the banks of the river on Monday morning. According to locals, the bodies suspected to be of Covid patients were kept in lines at the ghats as a board of doctors conducted post-mortem non-stop from Monday night t...

The dumped corpses have been found near the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar border They washed up in the Ganges river, sparking a blame-game between the states Officials in Bihar have said that it had counted 71 bodies washed up on the banks Authorities placed a net in the river and increased patrols to fish out the corpses  A video has reportedly shown bodies being dumped by medical workers Locals fear the Covid victims have not been given their sacred funeral rites  WARNING: Graphic images

Corpses float in Indias holy river amid Covid-19 crisis Some 95 unidentified bodies, many of them suspected to be Covid victims, were recovered from the Ganges in northern India Updated: May 12, 2021 10:25 AM GMT Trending Relatives mourn as they arrive for the cremation of their loved one who died due to Covid-19 at a crematorium in New Delhi on May 11. (Photo: AFP) Pandemic-hit India is witnessing an unprecedented crisis as some 95 unidentified bodies — many of them suspected to be Covid-1...

The dumped corpses have been found near the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar border They washed up in the Ganges river, sparking a blame-game between the states Officials in Bihar have said that it had counted 71 bodies washed up on the banks A video has reportedly shown bodies being dumped by medical workers Locals fear the Covid victims have not been given their sacred funeral rites  WARNING: Graphic images