Women smear vermillion and dance on the streets as large idols of Goddess Durga are taken on a street procession before immersing them into the Ganges river in India's Kolkata. Durga Puja is a 10-day ...

The Ganges River — Ganga in Hindi — is the lifeblood of more than 600 million people in India and Bangladesh. Farmers depend on the river for their crops. Millions depend on its water for washing, ...

Holly Williams is a CBS News senior foreign correspondent based in the network's CBS London bureau. Williams joined CBS News in July 2012, and has more than 25 years of experience covering major news ...

STORY: Devotees took a holy bath in the sacred river and worshipped Goddess 'Ganga', as they wished for the prosperity and welfare of humankind. The festival commemorates the descent of the river on ...

Caleb Cain Marcus grew up hearing his parents’ stories about India. When he went there for the first time as a boy, he felt that the country was “soaked in spirituality and myth.” “Anything was ...

Photographer Caleb Cain Marcus began his 1,500-mile pilgrimage along the the Ganges River amid the snow-capped peaks of Gangotri, India, a Hindu pilgrim town where the massive river originates as an ...

Small cradles of chrysanthemums, illuminated by a single candle, flicker in the moonlight, bobbing along the fast-flowing Ganges River. They are offerings. For hundreds of millions of Hindus around ...

At once lyrical and smell-the-stench gritty, "Ganges: River to Heaven" provides a respectful, often engrossing overview of the water body that's among the world's holiest sites. Visually handsome ...

ROUND AND round the baggage carousel at London’s Heathrow airport goes a battered cardboard box waiting to be claimed by its owner, a passenger from Delhi: “PLEASE KEEP THIS SIDE UP! GANGA JAL—HOLLY ...