{"id":31307,"date":"2025-03-17T01:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T19:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31307"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:24:40","slug":"bhadra-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bhadra-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhadra River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bhadra River Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Two youths from Rajasthan drowned in the Bhadra River recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bhadra River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a river flowing in the <strong>Karnataka <\/strong>state.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>It <strong>begins at the Western Ghats <\/strong>range and <strong>flows east across the Deccan Plateau.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>tributaries <\/strong>Somavahini, <strong>Thadabehalla, and Odirayanahalla<\/strong> join it.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The river flows across the <strong>Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Bhadra <strong>meets the Tunga River<\/strong> at Koodli, a small town near Shivamogga.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>combined river continues east as the Tungabhadra,<\/strong> a major <strong>tributary of <\/strong>the <strong>Krishna <\/strong>River<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tungabhadra joins Krishna at Sangamaleshwaram in Andhra Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Krishna <\/strong>River finally <strong>ends in the Bay of Bengal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The total length of Bhadra is <strong>178 km,<\/strong> and it is sub-montane in character.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bhadra Dam <\/strong>is a dam built across the Bhadra River near Lakkavalli village.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bhadra River FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is the birthplace of Tunga and Bhadra river?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Tunga and Bhadra rivers originate in the Western Ghats of India, specifically in the Chikmagalur district of Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the total length of Bhadra river?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The total length of Bhadra is 178 km.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Tungabhadra is a major tributary of which river?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Tungabhadra River is a major tributary of the Krishna River.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/mysuru\/two-rajasthan-youths-drown-in-bhadra-river\/articleshow\/119085115.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hadra River is a river flowing through Karnataka, contributing to the region&#8217;s natural beauty and supporting local ecosystems and communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31307","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\/31307","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=31307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}