Kolkata: The accelerating glacier melt in the Himalayas is intensifying both flood and drought risks across the Indo-Gangetic Plain, with Kolkata, bei.

The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the largest such forests in the world (140,000 ha), lies on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is adjacent to the ...

In the fourth century, Fa-hsien chronicled the culture of the Gangetic delta, and in the seventh century, Hiuen Tsang met King Harshavardhana, bearing testimony to ancient ties of scholarship and ...

Unlike gradual shifts observed upstream, this historic event occurred in the Ganges Delta, about 200 kilometres from its mouth at the Bay of Bengal. Similar river shifts today could endanger ...

BHUBANESWAR: The early historic fortifications at Durgadevi in Balasore and Sisupalgarh on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar may indicate the beginning of fortifications in the Gangetic valley ...

Historically, the distribution range of Ganges River Dolphins was seen right from the foothills of the Himalayas downstream of Haridwar to the delta region of Sundarbans. This range has ...