SUJABAD, India - Two weeks ago, as dawn broke over the Ganges river in this waterfront community, someone noticed several bodies in the shallows, the first of hundreds that would be found floating or ...

VARANASI, India _ The cremation of a human corpse takes three hours on the banks of the Ganges River. In a Hindu practice that would shock the sensibilities of most Americans, grieving families from ...

Arriving with dance and music, draped in orange and pink flowers, the dead keep constant company in Varanasi, India, where cremations happen by the hundred each day on the Ganges River. Whole ...

Some Hindus believe they can break out of the cycle of rebirth if they die and are cremated in the city. Down by the Ganges River, about 100 people are cremated every day across the city. Every day, ...

In a macabre twist to a situation that is already too dire to comprehend, authorities in the Indian states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have had to call in excavators to dig a mass grave after nearly ...

LUCKNOW (AFP) - Around 80 bodies have been found floating in a stream of India's Ganges, sparking renewed concerns on Wednesday about the health of the sacred river where millions of Hindus cremate ...

LUCKNOW, India-- Authorities were investigating Wednesday how more than 100 bodies, many of them children, ended up floating in an offshoot of the Ganges River in northern India. Officials do not ...

The changing face of Queens through immigration is mirrored in the cremation customs embraced by the Indians, who comprise one of the city’s largest South-Asian ethnic groups. This group, which ...

Reporting from Karachi, Pakistan — They sat in the dark for decades, waiting on the shelves of an abandoned library, the laughter and tears that once defined their lives all but forgotten.