In Unnao, a health department deputy director from Kabirpur Khambhauli village, along with three companions, went for a bath in the Ganges at Naanamau Ghat. The missing person is Aditya Vardhan Gaurav, a deputy director in the health department based in Varanasi. Aditya had arrived at the ghat with his friends, Yogeshwar Mishra and Pradeep Tiwari from Lucknow, intending to …
Tens of thousands bathe in the frigid waters of the Ganges river in northern India despite rising COVID-19 infections. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu worshippers have gathered on the banks of India’s Ganges river for a holy dip despite a 30-fold rise in coronavirus cases in the past month. “But the saints and a large number of people were bent …
Relatives transport a body for cremation, passing the partially exposed graves of those believed to be COVID-19 victims, in Shringverpur, India. “He got tested on April 28 and died the next day.” In the village of Patkhauli in eastern Uttar Pradesh, almost every one of its 1,400 residents appeared to fall ill at some point. “The entire village was sick,” …
A Gangetic dolphin was found dead in river Ganges at the Pranpur Ghat in Sahibganj district near the Jharkhand-West Bengal border. Earlier, on December 18, 2020, a dead dolphin was also found on the banks of river Ganges near Kaswa village of Jharkhand's Rajmahal district. Environmentalist Dr Ranjit Singh said that the local administration is paying considerable attention to "cleaning …