{"id":67627,"date":"2026-05-18T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=67627"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:08:49","slug":"damodar-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/damodar-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Damodar River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Damodar River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, 2 boys were drowned while taking a bath in the Damodar River in Jharkhand\u2019s Ramgarh district.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Damodar River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Origin:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It originates from the <\/span><b>Palamau hills of Chota Nagpur in Jharkhand.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows through the states of <\/span><b>Jharkhand and West Bengal.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent and an important part of the <\/span><b>Ganges River System.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river is also <\/span><b>known as the \u201cSorrow of Bengal\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because of its devastating floods in the plains of West Bengal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Course<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From its source, the river flows in a <\/span><b>southeastern direction, passing through<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Chota Nagpur Plateau<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a region known for its rich mineral deposits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its lower course, it flows through West Bengal\u2019s plains and is joined by several tributaries.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>meets the Hooghly River at Shayampur,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is 48 km from Kolkata.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Tributaries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Barakar River, Konar River, Jamunia River, Bokaro River, Sali River, Ghari River, Guaia River, Khadia River, Bhera River.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/2-drown-while-bathing-in-damodar-river-in-jharkhands-ramgarh\/2933785\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damodar River originates from the Palamau hills of Chota Nagpur in Jharkhand. Read more about Damodar River, Origin, Course, Tributaries, Total Length, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":103917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3151],"class_list":{"0":"post-67627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-damodar-river","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67627","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104024,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67627\/revisions\/104024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}