RV Bengal Pandaw, designed on the lines of a colonial steamer, would take 15 days to sail from Kolkata to Varanasi ... The WBTDCL also plans to promote the Ganga River Cruise Tourism Circuit ...

A man brushes his teeth as he stands in the polluted water of Ganges river in Kolkata, India. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri India's holy Ganges begins as a crystal clear river high in the icy ...

an 891-kilometer section of the Brahmaputra River. MV Ganga Vilas operator Antara offers several upscale cruise itineraries that are much shorter in duration. One route from Kolkata to Murshidabad ...

priests chanted mantras in front of the Ganga Devi idol while the Chief Minister played a conch shell. The Baje Kadamtala ghat on the river Hooghly was decked up for the event. Kolkata Mayor ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Kolkata, Jan 25 (IANS) An association of Kolkata-based environmental activists, under the name and style of Morning Walker's Guild of Rabindra Sarobar, has outlined a unique ...

World's longest river cruise from Varanasi ... for West Bengal via video conference. The Ganga Vilas Cruise, which departed from the coast of Kolkata on December 22 with 32 Swiss visitors on ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to inaugurate the Ganga Aarti — similar to the one held in Varanasi — in Kolkata’s ... Kadamtala ghat on the river Hooghly has been ...

Soon the plush boat will head out of the Kolkata River Traffic Police jetty and head to Chandannagore ... A paddle and its driving mechanism that was used to propel the steamer when it was in service ...

The Ganges is to India what the Nile is to ... that the British built the first capital of the British Raj, Kolkata. Where the river flows through land, it shelters some of the most endangered ...

this aarti will be performed every evening and a temporary temple of Goddess Ganga is also being made by the river bank. KMC Mayor Firhad Hakim along with officials of Kolkata Police also visited ...