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Alluvial fan
An alluvial fan is a fan- or cone-shaped deposit of sediment crossed and built up by streams.
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Araria
Araria is a city and a municipality that is the headquarters of Araria district in the state of Bihar, India.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ, lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia.
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Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur is a city of historical importance on the southern banks of the river Ganges in the Indian state of Bihar.
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Bihar
Bihar is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern as well as Northern India.
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Champaran
Champaran is a historic region which now forms the East Champaran district, and the West Champaran district in Bihar, India.
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CNN-News18
CNN-News18 (originally CNN-IBN) is an Indian English-language news television channel founded by Rajdeep Sardesai located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
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Floods in Bihar
Bihar is India's most flood-prone State, with 76% of the population in the North Bihar living under the recurring threat of flood devastation.
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Ganges
The Ganges, also known as Ganga, is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh.
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Government of Bihar
The Government of Bihar, known locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Bihar and its 9 divisions which consist of 38 districts.
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Gujarat
Gujarat is a state in Western India and Northwest India with an area of, a coastline of – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million.
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian Air Force
The Indian Air Force (IAF; IAST: Bhāratīya Vāyu Senā) is the air arm of the Indian armed forces.
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Koshi Barrage
The Koshi Barrage is a sluice across the Koshi river that carries vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic between Saptari district and Sunsari district of Nepal.
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Koshi River
The Koshi or Kosi River (कोशी नदी,, कोसी नदी) drains the northern slopes of the Himalayas in Tibet and the southern slopes in Nepal.
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Levee
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List of Chief Ministers of Bihar
The Chief Minister of Bihar is the chief executive of the Indian state of Bihar.
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Madhepura
Madhepura is a municipality in Madhepura district in the Indian state of Bihar.
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Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh (born 26 September 1932) is an Indian economist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014.
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Marya Shakil
Marya Shakil is an Indian TV journalist, author and an anchor.
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Monsoon
Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.
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Mumbai Fire Brigade
The Mumbai Fire Brigade is the fire brigade serving the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra.
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Narendra Modi
Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014.
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National Disaster Response Force
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is a specialised force constituted "for the purpose of specialist response to a threatening disaster situation or disaster" under the Disaster Management Act, 2005.
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Nepal
Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
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Nitish Kumar
Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician who has been the Chief Minister of Bihar, a state in eastern India, since 2017.
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Purnia
Purnia (also romanized as Purnea) is a city that serves as the administrative headquarters of both Purnia district and Purnia division in the Indian state of Bihar.
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Rupee
The rupee is the common name for the currencies of India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Maldives, Mauritius, Nepal, Bhutan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and formerly those of Afghanistan, Tibet, Burma and British East Africa, German East Africa and Trucial States.
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Saharsa
Saharsa is a city and a municipality in the Saharsa district in the eastern part of the state of Bihar, India.
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Sunsari District
Sunsari District (सुनसरी जिल्ला) is one of 14 districts in Province No. 1 of Nepal.
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Supaul
Supaul is a town and a municipality that is headquarters of Supaul district in the Indian state of Bihar.
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Tibet
Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.
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14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Thondup, 6 July 1935) is the current Dalai Lama.
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2008 Indian floods
The 2008 Indian floods were a series of floods in various states of India during the 2008 monsoon season.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Bihar_flood
