Citing an order of the apex court, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday urged Prime Minister Mammohan Singh to expedite the notification of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal's final order before the end of this month. ...
02:47 AM, Dec 21, 2012
The Supreme Court on Monday asked Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to approach the Cauvery River Authority headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to resolve their dispute over the sharing of the river's water. ...
09:21 AM, Dec 11, 2012
The emotive Cauvery water sharing dispute continues to keep Karnataka and Tamil Nadu tense. The Cauvery Monitoring Committee has come out with a distress sharing formula, but yet another appeal will be before the Supreme Court in two days. ...
09:29 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Karnataka was on Friday directed by the Cauvery Monitoring Committee to release 12 TMC (thousand million cubic) feet of Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu during December. The state said it would appeal the order. ...
12:26 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Vehicles have stopped plying from Sathyamangalam to Mysore following demonstrations and hartal by some Kannada outfits in parts of Karnataka protesting the Supreme Court directive to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. For the second consecutive day, more than 800 lorries, 300 vans and 200 other vehicles have been parked at Sathyamangalam, Bannari check-post and near Thimbam, police said. ...
01:59 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Karnataka on Thursday night began releasing Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu from the Krishna Raja Sagar Reservoir as per a Supreme Court directive. ...
01:06 AM, Dec 07, 2012
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
Protests erupted late on Wednesday in Cauvery belt in Karnataka hours after Supreme Court's directive to the state to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. ...
01:45 PM, Dec 06, 2012
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs of water from Cauvery River to Tamil Nadu everyday till December 10. ...
04:08 PM, Dec 05, 2012
Since Karnataka is heading for Assembly elections in 2013, the central government may not be pushing it hard to release Cauvery water for Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court was told by a counsel on Monday. ...
12:46 AM, Dec 04, 2012
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka should step up efforts to check bitterness among the people of the two states over the issue of sharing of Cauvery waters, DMK president M Karunanidhi said on Monday amid reports of some violent incidents in the border areas. ...
01:56 PM, Dec 03, 2012
The deadlock between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over River Cauvery water sharing continued on Thursday as the former refused to release any more water to the neighbouring state. Talking to mediapersons after the meeting, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa alleged that Karnataka "flatly refused to release any water". ...
04:23 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and her Karnataka counterpart Jagadish Shettar are meeting in Bangalore on Thursday on the Cauvery water sharing row heeding the Supreme Court advice amid indications that a breakthrough is unlikely. ...
06:27 AM, Nov 29, 2012
The chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka will meet in Bangalore on Thursday to arrive at an amicable solution to the protracted dispute over sharing of Cauvery river waters. ...
01:09 PM, Nov 27, 2012
The Supreme Court has urged Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to sort out the differences over the Cauvery river water sharing issue amongst themselves. The apex court has asked CMs Jagadish Shettar and J Jayalalithaa to break the logjam through meaningful dialogue. ...
12:41 PM, Nov 26, 2012
The Supreme Court on Monday asked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar to meet and find an amicable solution to the Cauvery river water dispute. ...
11:04 AM, Nov 26, 2012
As Cyclone Nilam ravaged the coast of Chennai, 5 brave fishermen jumped into the sea to save sailors of MT Pratibha Cauvery from drowning. ...
02:23 PM, Nov 11, 2012
Chennai: As Cyclone Nilam ravaged the coast of Chennai, five brave fishermen jumped into the sea to save sailors of MT Pratibha Cauvery from drowning. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has announced a cash reward for each of them. CNN-IBN met those brave souls. The ominous cyclone warning for Nilam had just been sounded. K Gopi and his fishermen friends were along Chennai's Elliots beach, just locking themselves in their...
09:51 AM, Nov 09, 2012
Chennai: Bodies of all five sailors, who went missing after an oil tanker ran aground off the city beach hours before cyclone 'Nilam' made landfall on November 1, have been recovered. While four bodies were recovered on Friday, one more was found washed ashore near Minjur coastal area early on Saturday morning, police said. The five went missing after their lifeboat capsized in choppy waters while 16 were rescued by...
12:02 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Mumbai: The Directorate General of Shipping (DGS) would soon begin salvage operations of the ship which had run aground near Chennai. The salvage operation is likely to start from November 7, a press release issued by the Directorate said. "A meeting with the owners, salvors, hull and machinery insurance and protection and indemnity club was held to plan out the salvage of the vessel," the statement said adding the salvors...
11:04 PM, Nov 02, 2012
