{"id":31721,"date":"2025-04-04T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31721"},"modified":"2025-04-16T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:45:01","slug":"dhansiri-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dhansiri-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhansiri River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dhansiri River Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Environmentalists recently raised concerns with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) over alleged hazardous effluent discharge from Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) into the Dhansiri River, warning of severe ecological damage.<\/p>\n<h2>About Dhansiri River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dhansiri is the main river of Golaghat District of <strong>Assam <\/strong>and the Dimapur District of <strong>Nagaland<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It forms an important <strong>tributary to the Brahmaputra<\/strong> River.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It <strong>originates <\/strong>from <strong>Laisang Peak of Nagaland.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>For the first 40 km from its source, the river flows in a northwesterly direction, and thereafter it flows northeast for about 76 km up to Dimapur.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Beyond Dimapur, the direction of flow is generally northerly up to Golaghat, where the river takes an abrupt turn towards the northwest and ultimately <strong>joins the Brahmaputra at Dhansirimukh, Assam.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The total lengthof the river from its source to outfall is approximately <strong>352 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its total catchment area is 1,220 sq.km.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>flows through the Nagaland -Assam border <\/strong>harbouring rich flora and fauna. <strong>On one side <\/strong>is the <strong>Dhansiri Reserved Forest,<\/strong> and on the <strong>other is Intanki National Park.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dhansiri River FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where does the Dhansiri River originate from?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Laisang peak of Nagaland\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Is dhansiri a left or right bank tributary of brahmaputra river?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Dhansiri is the left-bank tributary of the Brahmaputra river.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the total length of the Dhansiri River?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 352 km<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2025\/Apr\/03\/assam-environmentalist-flags-refinery-effluent-discharge-into-dhansiri-river\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhansiri River is the main river of Golaghat District in Assam and Dimapur District in Nagaland, supporting biodiversity and agriculture in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31721","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\/31721","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=31721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}