{"id":15119,"date":"2026-03-12T11:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15119"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:34:31","slug":"jhelum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/jhelum\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhelum River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Jhelum River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kashmir Valley is witnessing one of its most unusual early springs in decades, with the river Jhelum, its lifeline, dropping below the zero-gauge level while temperatures surge to record highs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Jhelum River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an important river that flows through <\/span><b>northwestern India and eastern Pakistan.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a<\/span><b> tributary of the Indus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> River.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river is also known as <\/span><b>Vitasta in Sanskrit, Hydaspes in Greek, and Bidasp in Persian.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>lifeline of Kashmir<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the region where it flows for most of its course.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the<\/span><b> largest and most western of the five rivers of Punjab <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>passes through<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Jhelum District in the North of Punjab province, Pakistan.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Course<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>originates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the <\/span><b>Verinag Spring <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Anantnag, at the <\/span><b>foot of the Pir Panjal range in the Kashmir Valley.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river meanders northwestward from the <\/span><b>northern slope of the Pir Panjal Range through the Vale of Kashmir to Wular Lake at Srinagar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which controls its flow.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river<\/span><b> makes a deep, narrow gorge on its way to Pakistan.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It<\/span><b> joins the Chenab River <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">near <\/span><b>Trimmu, Pakistan.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Length: It has a total length of about<\/span><b> 725 km.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>hydrology <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Jhelum River is largely <\/span><b>controlled by snowmelt from the Karakoram and Himalaya ranges in the spring<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>southwest monsoon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the Indian subcontinent that brings heavy rains from<\/span><b> June to September.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Tributaries:<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>largest tributary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Jhelum is the<\/span><b> Kishenganga (Neelum) River, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which joins near Muzaffarabad and enters the Punjab province, Pakistan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Kunhar River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the second largest tributary of the river, which connects Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan on the Kohala Bridge of the Kanghan valley.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other tributaries include the Sandran River, Bringi River, Arapath River, Watlara River, Lidder River, and Veshaw River.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/climate-change\/dry-winter-and-rising-temperatures-leave-kashmirs-lifeline-jhelum-river-at-historic-low\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jhelum 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