{"id":31721,"date":"2026-08-08T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31721"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:49:56","slug":"dhansiri-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dhansiri-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhansiri River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Dhansiri River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assam&#8217;s ongoing flood crisis escalated recently with the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) issuing a critical public advisory for residents near the Dhansiri River in the Golaghat district.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Dhansiri 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;\">running through the states of <\/span><b>Assam and Nagaland <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and forms an important<\/span><b> tributary to the <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/brahmaputra-river-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brahmaputra<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/brahmaputra-river-system\/\" target=\"_blank\"> River<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/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;\">It <\/span><b>originates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from Laisang Peak of <\/span><b>Nagaland<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beyond Dimapur, the direction of flow is generally northerly up to Golaghat in Assam, where the river takes an abrupt turn towards the northwest and ultimately <\/span><b>joins the Brahmaputra at Dhansirimukh, Assam.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Total Length: 352 km.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its total catchment area is 1,220 sq.km.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major Tributaries: Intaki River, Bara Monglu River, Langlong Nadi, and Amaluma Jan River.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows through the <\/span><b>Nagaland-Assam border<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> harbouring rich flora and fauna. On one side is the <\/span><b>Dhansiri Reserved Forest<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and on the other is<\/span><b> Intanki National Park.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News: <a href=\"https:\/\/pragnews.com\/en\/dhansiri-river-warning-issued-amidst-persistent-assam-flood-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PRAG<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhansiri River is a transboundary river running through the states of Assam and Nagaland and forms an important tributary to the Brahmaputra River. <\/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":[9386,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-31721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-dhansiri-river","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118036,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31721\/revisions\/118036"}],"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}]}}