{"id":20576,"date":"2026-03-02T11:25:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20576"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:20:33","slug":"kosi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kosi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Kosi River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the past 200 years, the Kosi River has shifted its path westward by over 100 kilometres.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Kosi River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a<\/span><b> transboundary river <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which flows through <\/span><b>China, Nepal, and India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a prominent <\/span><b>tributary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ganga-river-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ganges<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People often call it the &#8220;<\/span><b>Sorrow of Bihar&#8221;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because of the <\/span><b>big floods<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it can cause, especially in the Indian state of <\/span><b>Bihar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/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;\">The river Kosi is <\/span><b>formed by the confluence of three streams,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> namely the<\/span><b> Sun Kosi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the<\/span><b> Arun Kosi,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>Tamur Kosi, all of which<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have their <\/span><b>origin <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About 48 km north of the <\/span><b>Indian-Nepalese frontier<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Kosi is joined by several major tributaries<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>breaks southward through the Siwalik Hills at<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>narrow Chatra Gorge.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river then <\/span><b>emerges on the great plain of northern India in Bihar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> state on its way to the Ganges River, which it enters south of Purnea after a course of about <\/span><b>724 km.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kosi drains an area of 74,500 sq.km, of which only 11,070 sq.km lie within Indian Territory.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Over the last 250 years, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Kosi has <\/span><b>shifted its course over 100 kilometres <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from East to West and the unstable nature of the river is<\/span><b> attributed to the heavy silt it carries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during the monsoon season.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Corn <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(maize) is<\/span><b> extensively cultivated <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the sandy soils of the Kosi\u2019s basin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Tributaries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It has seven major tributaries:<\/span><b> Sun Koshi, Tama Koshi or Tamba Koshi, Dudh Koshi, Indravati, Likhu, Arun, and Tamore or Tamar.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/education-today\/gk-current-affairs\/story\/which-indian-river-is-also-called-the-sorrow-of-bihar-2876100-2026-03-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kosi River is a transboundary river which flows through China, Nepal, and India. 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