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• Himachal Pradesh Police on Monday cracked down on an SUV owner for allegedly driving his vehicle across the Chandra River in Lahaul and Spiti district.

About Chandra River

• It is one of the two rivers in the Lahaul region of Himachal Pradesh that joins the Bhaga River to form the Chenab River.
• Origin: among the Himachal Pradesh districts of Lahaul and Spiti, it rises among the snows that lie at the foot of the main Himalayan range.
• The river travels southeast for a substantial distance at the base of this ridge before totally changing direction and flowing south-west through the Spiti Valley.
• After Keylong, it continues to unite with the Bhaga River.
• At its source, the stunning Chandra Tal Lake was created.
• This river's upper and middle catchments are composed of terrain that has been sculpted by glaciers.
• Because it is under the rain shadow of the Pir Panjal range of the Himalayas, the entire region is a huge, frigid desert that receives little to no rain.
• Numerous glaciers feed the river along its course; the largest are the Samundari on its right bank and the Shigri on its left.
• At various points, a multitude of little tributaries nourished by snow merge with the Chandra.
• The only significant human settlement along this river is

Indus River System

• It is one of the world's major river basins.
• The Indus River, commonly known as the Sindhu, is India's westernmost Himalayan river.
• It springs from a glacier at Bokhar Chu in the Kailash Mountain range in Tibet.
• It is known in Tibet as 'Singi Khamban,' meaning Lion's Mouth.
• It flows north west between the Ladakh and Zanskar mountain ranges before passing through Ladakh and Baltistan.
• It slashes through the Ladakh range, providing a breath-taking gorge near Gilgit in Jammu & Kashmir.
• In the Dardistan area of Pakistan, it enters around Chillar.
• The Shyok, Gilgit, Zaskar, Hunza, Nubra, Shigar, Gasting, and Dras are only a few of the Himalayan tributaries that flow into the Indus.
• It ultimately emerges from the highlands around Attock, where it is joined on its right bank by the Kabul River.
• The river runs south, receiving 'Panjnad' just above Mithankot.
• The five rivers of Punjab, the Satluj, Beas, Ravi, Chenab, and Jhelum, are together known as the
• It eventually empties into the Arabian Sea to the east of Karachi.
• In India, the Indus exclusively runs through Jammu and Kashmir's Leh district.

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