Varanasi's Manikarnika Ghat hosts the sacred Manikarnika Snan on Vaikuntha Chaturdashi, November 4, 2025. This annual ritual ...

Varanasi: Maintaining the tradition, a group of ‘nagar vadhus' (sex workers) danced around the burning pyres at the Manikarnika ghat on Friday night. This event concluded the three-day Shringar ...

Some cities in India are reporting a shortage of wood needed for funeral pyres to cremate the bodies of deceased COVID-19 victims, as coronavirus deaths surpass more than 234,000. In Varanasi, a city ...

Amid incessant rainfall across northern India, the Ganga River is swelling rapidly, prompting flood alerts in several districts of Uttar Pradesh, including Varanasi and Prayagraj. The swollen Ganga ...

Tears rolling down his face, Bachchan Singh Bahadur poured cups of melted butter on the wood fire of his father's funeral pyre on the outskirts of New Delhi. He was in keeping with a centuries-old ...