{"id":17171,"date":"2023-09-15T16:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17171"},"modified":"2023-09-15T16:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:03:03","slug":"bagmati-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/15-09-2023\/bagmati-river","title":{"rendered":"Bagmati River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Facts In News<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS1\/ Geographical features<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">News<\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At least 12 people went missing after a boat capsized in the Bagmati river in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar recently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bagmati River is a t<strong>ransboundary river between the Nepal and India border.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: Shivapuri Hills to the north of Kathmandu, Nepal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mouth of the River:<\/strong> The River ultimately joins the <strong>Narayani <\/strong>River. The merged waters of the Bagmati and Narayani eventually make their way southward and into the <strong>Ganges<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Total length:<\/strong> 586.3 km.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tributaries:&nbsp;<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bishnumati River<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manohara River<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dhobi Khola River.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Nepalese people<\/strong> believed that the Bagmati was the <strong>origin of their civilization and urbanization.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Located on the river\u2019s edge, <strong>the Pashupatinath Temple<\/strong> is an important Hindu pilgrimage site dedicated to Shiva.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/51891\/OPS\/G17BOKBNV.1+GCEBOKGIO.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facts In News Syllabus: GS1\/ Geographical features News:\u00a0 About Source: TH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17172,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17171\/revisions\/17172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}