Up Rivers

A recent study indicates that Mount Everest may have increased in height due to a river capture event that occurred approximately 89,000 years ago. Researchers from University College London, including Adam Smith, explored how the unusual behaviour of the Arun River and its erosion contributed to this change. The findings suggest that the capture o...

Flowing above the danger mark, a swollen river Ganga has swallowed up at least 10 houses in Bihar's Mamlakha district.

The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases drying up riverbeds that were previously navigable waterways.

A man was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur on Tuesday for allegedly pushing his five-year-old son in a river, leading to his death, in an attempt to wrongly frame his neighbour in the case, police said.

A man was held in UP's Balrampur on Wednesday for allegedly beheading his wife, and dismembering her body with a cleaver and an electric saw, which he dumped in different places to evade arrest, police said.

Two weeks after the unprecedented complexity of the opening ceremony along the River Seine, there are big expectations for the show to wrap up the Games.

French authorities have invested 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) over the last decade to clean up the Seine, including in major new water treatment and storage facilities in and around Paris.

Its feet and mouth tied up, stuffed in gunny sacks, scores of dogs were being taken away on an e-rickshaw to be thrown into a river in a Madhya Pradesh city, showed a disturbing video.

One person went missing after a boat carrying nine pilgrims capsized on Friday in the Sarayu river in Ayodhya, an official said.

More than 50 people were killed after landslides swept through tea estates and homes in Kerala state on July 30. Heavy rains caused floods in capital New Delhi. Several rivers swelled up in Assam after seasonal monsoon rains.

Taking note of froth in the heavily polluted Yamuna river in Delhi, the AAP government on Friday asked the Centre to instruct Haryana and UP to ensure industries there do not release untreated residue in the river.

Due to the rise in the water levels of the Saryu River in the Ballia District of Uttar Pradesh, river erosion has significantly increased near the river banks.

A woman, along with her lover, allegedly killed her three children by drowning them in a river in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya on Thursday, said police. The fourth child faked his death and managed to escape, the police added.

Suspecting an extramarital affair and angered by his wife's big spending habit, a man strangled her to death in UP's Muzaffarnagar.

Videos showed a tremendous volume of water flowing around the dam, swallowing a building as dead trees and other debris piled up around it.

A recent study indicates that Mount Everest may have increased in height due to a river capture event that occurred approximately 89,000 years ago. Researchers from University College London, including Adam Smith, explored how the unusual behaviour of the Arun River and its erosion contributed to this change. The findings suggest that the capture o...

Flowing above the danger mark, a swollen river Ganga has swallowed up at least 10 houses in Bihar's Mamlakha district.

The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases drying up riverbeds that were previously navigable waterways.

A man was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur on Tuesday for allegedly pushing his five-year-old son in a river, leading to his death, in an attempt to wrongly frame his neighbour in the case, police said.

A man was held in UP's Balrampur on Wednesday for allegedly beheading his wife, and dismembering her body with a cleaver and an electric saw, which he dumped in different places to evade arrest, police said.

Two weeks after the unprecedented complexity of the opening ceremony along the River Seine, there are big expectations for the show to wrap up the Games.

French authorities have invested 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) over the last decade to clean up the Seine, including in major new water treatment and storage facilities in and around Paris.

Its feet and mouth tied up, stuffed in gunny sacks, scores of dogs were being taken away on an e-rickshaw to be thrown into a river in a Madhya Pradesh city, showed a disturbing video.

One person went missing after a boat carrying nine pilgrims capsized on Friday in the Sarayu river in Ayodhya, an official said.

More than 50 people were killed after landslides swept through tea estates and homes in Kerala state on July 30. Heavy rains caused floods in capital New Delhi. Several rivers swelled up in Assam after seasonal monsoon rains.

Taking note of froth in the heavily polluted Yamuna river in Delhi, the AAP government on Friday asked the Centre to instruct Haryana and UP to ensure industries there do not release untreated residue in the river.

Due to the rise in the water levels of the Saryu River in the Ballia District of Uttar Pradesh, river erosion has significantly increased near the river banks.

A woman, along with her lover, allegedly killed her three children by drowning them in a river in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya on Thursday, said police. The fourth child faked his death and managed to escape, the police added.

Suspecting an extramarital affair and angered by his wife's big spending habit, a man strangled her to death in UP's Muzaffarnagar.

Videos showed a tremendous volume of water flowing around the dam, swallowing a building as dead trees and other debris piled up around it.