{"id":13243,"date":"2026-04-17T12:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13243"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:21:23","slug":"ghaggar-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ghaggar-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghaggar River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ghaggar River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, villages situated on the banks of the Ghaggar river in Haryana are witnessing a rise in cancer cases, which is reportedly being attributed to polluted river water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ghaggar River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ghaggar river is an <\/span><b>intermittent river<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in India and Pakistan that flows only during the monsoon season.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Origin:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It originates in the village of Dagshai in the <\/span><b>Shivalik Hills of Himachal Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at an elevation of 1,927 metres (6,322 ft) above mean sea level.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river is known as Ghaggar before the Ottu barrage and as the Hakra downstream of the barrage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Course<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After passing through the Ambala and Hissar districts of Haryana, it eventually dries up in the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-thar-desert\/\" target=\"_blank\">Great Indian (Thar) Desert<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hakra, which flows in Pakistan, is the continuation of the Ghaggar River in India, and they are together called the Ghaggar-Hakra River.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Tributaries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The main tributaries of the Ghaggar are the Kaushalya River, Markanda, Sarsuti, Tangri, and Chautang.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/haryana\/cancer-courses-through-the-ghaggar\/article70837906.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghaggar River is an intermittent river in India and Pakistan that flows only during the monsoon season. Read more about Ghaggar River, Origin, Historical Significance, Tributaries, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":98725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[612],"class_list":{"0":"post-13243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-ghaggar-river","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98794,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions\/98794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}