{"id":18639,"date":"2026-07-25T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18639"},"modified":"2026-07-25T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:11:32","slug":"chenab-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chenab-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Chenab River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Chenab River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India rejected Pakistani media reports regarding Chenab River flooding &#8220;baseless&#8221; and said that the recent rise in water levels in the Chenab river is due to heavy monsoon rainfall over Jammu and adjoining catchment areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Chenab River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>tributary of the Indus River.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Origin:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is formed by the confluence of two streams<\/span><b>, Chandra and Bhaga<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in the Lahaul and Spiti Districts of <\/span><b>Himachal Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its upper reaches, it is also known as the <\/span><b>Chandrabhaga.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows through <\/span><b>Jammu and Kashmir union territory, Himachal Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and after receiving the <\/span><b>Jhelum River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> near Trimmu, the Chenab empties into the <\/span><b>Sutlej River.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Tributaries:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Left Bank:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 Niru, Tawi, Neeru, and Liddrari<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Right Bank:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ans, Bhut Nalla, Bichleri, Kalnai Marusudar and Miyar Nalla.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Dams on Chenab River:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Salal (rockfill dam), Aalal (concrete dam), Baglihar, and Dul.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The waters of the Chenab are shared by <\/span><b>India and Pakistan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as per the terms of the <\/span><b>Indus Water Treaty.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/baseless-allegations-says-india-on-pakistans-claims-of-creating-a-flood-like-situation-by-increasing-flow-of-chenab\/article71263476.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chenab River  is a tributary of the Indus River. Read more about Chenab River, Origin, Course, Tributaries, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":64611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[483],"class_list":["post-18639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-chenab-river","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18639","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=18639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115142,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18639\/revisions\/115142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}