In the wake of Supreme Court directing Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs to Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Thursday said he would lead a MPs team from the Cauvery Basin to meet the Prime Minister for apprising him of the distress situation in his state. ...
12:26 AM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: Karnataka on Thursday reiterated its stand on Cauvery water release to Tamil Nadu, informing the Monitoring Committee that it can't release more water to the south Indian state. The Supreme Court will now take up the matter on Friday. The Monitoring Committee report will be sent to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Earlier, Tamil Nadu on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to initiate contempt proceedings against Karnataka Chief Minister...
05:34 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Bangalore: Karnataka braced itself for crucial meetings over Cauvery water row on Thursday and Friday even as union Power Minister M Veerappa Moily, who hails from the state, on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to provide immediate relief to the state. "Depletion of water on the Karnataka side will further deteriorate the situation. It is but natural that farmers are very much agitated in view of the depleting water...
12:58 AM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu government has said it will file a contempt petition against Karnataka in the Supreme Court over its decision to halt the release of water from the Cauvery to the state. Karnataka on late Monday stopped releasing Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu, hours after the state informed the Supreme Court that it was in no position to continue the water flow from Monday night, a...
01:44 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Bangalore: The protests over the Cauvery water release to Tamil Nadu are likely to continue in southern Karnataka and Bangalore on Tuesday. Karnataka has sought a stay on the Cauvery order which directs it to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. The matter will come up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Friday. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu has said that it will take up the matter with Prime...
08:17 AM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: 6.30 pm: Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Monday said that it is not possible to release more water to Tamil Nadu. "We have conveyed this to Supreme Court by our senior counsel and this is the stand of the state government before the court," he said. 4.20 pm: The Supreme Court will review Karnataka's petition on Cauvery water sharing on October 12 after Karnataka on Monday sought...
12:14 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Cuddalore: A report would be submitted to the Centre within three days about the water scarcity and difficulties in raising 'samba' (long-term) paddy crop, leader of the central team, currently touring Cauvery delta districts of Tamil Nadu to assess the water-situation, said. Chief Engineer RK Gupta was talking to reporters after meeting farmers at Thoraiapadi, Natarajapuram, Vallampadugai, Kodipallam villages in Chidambaram Taluk. Earlier, the four-member team assessed the water-situation in...
04:27 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Bangalore: The dawn-to-dusk 'Karnataka bandh' called by Kannada outfits to protest against the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu on Saturday disrupted normal life in the city and river basin districts even as window-panes of some buses were damaged in stone-pelting incidents. In Bangalore city, some persons pelted stones on some Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) buses and damaged its window panes, police said. As per initial reports, the...
09:46 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Bangalore: 1.54 pm: Cauvery protesters enter Wipro office in Mysore. They ask the staff to stop work in view of Saturday's bandh. A few of them try to ransack the office. 1.31 pm: BJP leader V Dhananjaykumar, a BSY loyalist, slams CM Jagadish Shettar for his 'failure' to protect the state's interests. 1.26 pm: President of Cauvery Hitharakshana Samiti, G Madegowda, who continued his relay fast for the third day...
08:59 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Bangalore: An 80,000-strong police force will be stationed in Bangalore as Karnataka observes a bandh in protest against the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu on Saturday. Several Kannada outfits gave a call for a statewide bandh in protest against the Supreme Court's directive to the state government to release 9,000 cusecs of water daily from the river to their neighbouring state that is facing a severe water shortage...
07:59 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Bangalore: Former Chief Minister and estranged BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa on Friday launched a frontal attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for issuing to Karnataka an order as Chairman of Cauvery River Authority (CRA) to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu daily "without assessment of ground reality" on water storage levels in this state. Yeddyurappa, who began a day-long dharna in protest against the CRA order, demanded that...
01:46 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Bangalore: Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa is expected to take out a massive rally in Bangalore against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's directive to the state to release 9,000 cusecs of water daily from the Cauvery to Tamil Nadu. Karnataka has erupted in protests ever since the Supreme Court gave a directive to the state government to release water. Farmers groups said it will affect their irrigation facilities. Tamil Nadu...
09:14 AM, Oct 05, 2012
Mandya: Complying with the Supreme Court directive, Karnataka on Sunday began release of Cauvery River water to Tamil Nadu, triggering widespread protests across the district and disrupting vehicular movement. Irrigation authorities told PTI that about 5,000 cusecs of water was being released from Krishnarajasagar Dam and Kabini Reservoir since Saturday night. According to sources, Karnataka will be ensuring flow of 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. The decision comes...
11:01 AM, Sep 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Karnataka government to release up to 9000 cusecs of water from the Cauvery daily to Tamil Nadu till October 20. Tamil Nadu is facing a severe shortage of irrigation water due to rainfall deficit. Passing the order, the apex court said that it was unfortunate that Karnataka was not following the orders of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA), a committee headed...
03:47 PM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on Wednesday will be facing the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) for the first time in nine years headed by the Prime Minister in New Delhi. Chennai wants Bangalore to release 2 TMC of water from Cauvery river as crops have been destroyed due to a deficit monsoon. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who has been vociferously demanding such a meeting to discuss thread-bare...
07:11 AM, Sep 19, 2012
Chennai: With the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) all set to meet on Wednesday after a gap of nearly 9 years, there is an uneasy calm prevailing among farmers in the Delta region. They are eagerly looking at the signals coming from Karnataka, where political parties have declared they would not release water to Tamil Nadu, as an indication of the stressful season ahead for cultivation. While a temporary relief was...
12:24 PM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will chair the much-awaited meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) for the first time in nine years on Wednesday primarily to discuss Tamil Nadu's demand that Karnataka release water from Cauvery river to save the crops that depend on it. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who has been vociferously demanding such a meeting to discuss thread-bare water issues between the state and...
09:26 PM, Sep 16, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday renewed her request to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convene a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) headed by him to finalise the distress sharing formula. She also wanted the PM to direct Karnataka to release water immediately to help farmers in Tamil Nadu cultivate the Samba crop.Pointing that the PM was yet to respond to her demand, on May 18, to...
08:09 AM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear the application filed by the State of Tamil Nadu on the Cauvery row seeking convening of a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority on August 17. A Bench comprising Justice D K Jain and Justice Madan B Lokur heard the submissions of senior counsel C S Vaidyanathan, Additional Advocate General Guru Krishnakumar and Umapathy Ganeshan averring that the application was filed for directing...
12:43 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Chennai: Charging Karnataka with "unjustly utilising" Cauvery water for summer irrigation, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday asked Prime Minister Manmhohan Singh to convene a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority to discuss the issue. Karnataka has been "unjustly utilising" the water for summer irrigation from February to May by depleting storage in its four major reservoirs, she said in a letter to Singh. The combined gross storage in...
11:42 AM, May 19, 2012
