In a recent interview with BBC, India's minister of water resources Uma Bharti unveiled her government's massive plan to divert major rivers including the Ganges and Brahmaputra.

India is set to divert water from its rivers to deal with a severe drought, a senior minister has told the BBC.

On 11 March, panic struck engineers at a giant power station on the banks of the Ganges river in West Bengal state.

Thieves walk away with a 1,400-year-old footprint of Prophet Mohammad, founder of Islam, from a historic mosque located on the banks of the Ganges in Patna.