The CPCB report which analysed Ganges water said: “The river water quality was not conforming ... from pathogens entering the body through the mouth, nose, ears, or cuts in the skin”.

The ice that forms the mouth of the Ganges looked more like teeth. A rock slide had changed the course of the river and the usual foot crossing had vanished, leaving a party of mountaineers ...

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 ...