Mandya: A Polish couple has gone missing after setting out on a boat ride in Cauvery river from Tamil Nadu towards Karnataka, police in Mandya said. According to a complaint lodged with police by S Jayaprabha, Manager of a private company at Hosur, his colleague Ian Turton and his wife had embarked on a boat ride from Denkanikote in Tamil Nadu to Muthathi in Karnataka on May 19. The couple...
09:10 AM, May 23, 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
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to appoint a new chairman for Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal following the resignation of Justice NP Singh. In a letter to the prime minister, the text of which was released to the media here, Jayalalithaa said: "I understand that the Chairman of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal Shri Justice NP Singh has tendered his resignation on...
12:28 AM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till noon on Thursday following demands for a separate Telangana state as well as protests on the Sethusamudram project and the Cauvery waters dispute. Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Congress and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) members from Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh raised the issue of a separate Telangana state for a third day in the Lok Sabha. They also displayed...
01:20 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Coimbatore: Tamil Nadu unit of the CPI on Wednesday accused the UPA Government of acting against the interests of the state and Tamils by remaining as a mute spectator without attempting to resolve various issues concerning it such as the Mullaperiyar dam row with Kerala. Be it Mullaperiyar dam row or Cauvery water-sharing dispute with Karnataka or the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, the UPA Government was functioning against the interests...
08:23 AM, Feb 02, 2012
Chennai: A day after Karnataka's refusal to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Thursday said his government would face the issue legally, but asserted that it would not come in the way of recent good ties between the two states. After chairing a meeting of DMK functionaries, Karunanidhi told reporters, "We will approach the issue legally and continue to fight for securing our share of...
03:12 PM, Oct 28, 2010
The state government has said it's not in a position to release water at this stage as there had been deficient rainfall. ...
02:22 PM, Oct 28, 2010
The censor board feels that the theme is uncomfortably close to the issue. ...
12:21 PM, Aug 07, 2009
The monsoon delay is threatening to trigger off another battle. ...
05:02 PM, Jun 25, 2009
Melbourne: Former Australia captain Ian Chappell, blamed Mahendra Singh Dhoni for India's slide to oblivion and has questioned his conservative approach on the final day of the first Test against Australia in Melbourne. MS Dhoni set the tone for India's slide to oblivion on the final day at the MCG. He was extremely conservative when the situation cried out for him to attack in order to claim the final two...
02:07 PM, Apr 05, 2008
Karachi: The bitterness caused by the Oval Test fiasco and the spot-fixing scandal notwithstanding, former Test captain of Pakistan, Zaheer Abbas is hopeful that the upcoming series against England will be free of any controversies. "This time I hope the situation will change and it will be a controversy-free series. Both teams should just focus on the cricket because it is a hyped up series and the cricket contests itself...
11:27 AM, Apr 05, 2008
Politics and cinema make a heady cocktail, but north and south India react differently to it. ...
08:03 AM, Apr 05, 2008
Melbourne: India's formidable batting line-up crumbled twice, but skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said he is not worried, instead choosing to give credit to Australia's fast bowlers for eking out the 122-run win in the first Test in Melbourne on Thursday. Indian bowlers did well to restrict the hosts to 240 in the second innings but the visitors put up a pathetic show while chasing 292 and were bowled out for...
03:20 PM, Apr 04, 2008
Bhopal: Sharmila Tagore, wife of the late Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, is excited about the plan of the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) to hold a Pataudi Memorial Lecture and has a few names in her mind from the cricketing fraternity. The lecture would be more than a condolence speech, so a person should not only know few things about him (Pataudi) but know him as well, said...
10:21 AM, Apr 04, 2008
Melbourne: Simon Katich has finally resigned to his fate of being an ex-Test player and has backed his former New South Wales teammate Ed Cowan, who made his Test debut here at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in the Boxing Day Test, to prosper against India in the four-match series. The 36-year-old Katich feels Cowan, who now plays for Tasmania, will be he worthy successor as a Test opener. "Ed...
01:35 PM, Apr 03, 2008
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