{"id":30594,"date":"2025-03-06T03:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T22:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30594"},"modified":"2025-04-11T08:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:12:42","slug":"indus-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indus-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Indus River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Indus River Latest News\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Pakistan has discovered vast gold reserves worth approximately Rs 80,000 crore in the Indus River bed, potentially boosting the country&#8217;s struggling economy<\/p>\n<h2>About Indus River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Origin: <\/strong>The Indus River is one of the longest rivers in Asia. It rises from <strong>Mansarovar in Tibet<\/strong> at an elevation of about 5182 m and flows for about 2880 km up to its outfall into the <strong>Arabian Sea<\/strong>. The length of the river in India is 800.75 km.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries:<\/strong> Its principal tributaries are the Sutlej, the Beas, the Ravi, the Chenab and the Jhelum.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Countries Flowing Through:<\/strong> It flows through <strong>China, India, and Pakistan<\/strong>, serving as a vital water source for agriculture, hydropower, and human consumption.\n<ul>\n<li>The Indus flows through India only through the Union Territory of Ladakh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drainage System: <\/strong>The Indus basin extends over an area of 11,65,500 sq. km and lies in Tibet, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The drainage area in India is 321289 sq. km. which is nearly 9.8% of the total geographical area of the country.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is bounded on the north by the <strong>Karakoram and Haramosh ranges<\/strong>, on the east by the Himalayas, on the west by the Sulaiman and Kirthar ranges and on the south by the Arabian Sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Historical Significance:<\/strong> The river has played a crucial role in the development of ancient civilizations, including the <strong>Indus Valley Civilization<\/strong>, one of the earliest urban cultures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Indus River Civilisation<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Indus Valley civilization is the earliest known urban culture of the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the world\u2019s three earliest civilizations along with <strong>Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt<\/strong>. This civilization flourished from approximately 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the sites discovered earlier, <strong>Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro<\/strong>, are present in the Indus valley which gives the name to it. Harappa was the first excavated site therefore, it is also called <strong>Harappan culture<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Indus River FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is Indus River called in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>The Indus River is called Sindhu in Sanskrit, which is its name in India.<\/p>\n<p>Q2. Where do 5 rivers meet Indus?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>Jhelum and Ravi join Chenab, Beas joins Sutlej, and then Sutlej and Chenab join to form Panjnad, 10 miles north of Uch Sharif in Muzaffar Garh district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3. <\/strong>Why is the Indus River so important?<\/p>\n<p>Ans: The Indus River has been important since early civilization. It provided humans with a source of water when little other water could be found in the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/world\/pakistan-finds-gold-worth-rs-80000-crore-in-indus-river-india-connection-explained-3430724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indus River is a major trans-Himalayan river in South Asia, flowing through China (Tibet), India, and Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30594","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=30594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}