Bangalore/New Delhi: 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 senior official said. The five crest gates of Krishanaraja Sagar (KRS) reservoir in Mandya, about 80 km from Bangalore, through which Cauvery water was being released to Tamil Nadu have been shut, the...
09:51 AM, 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: The Supreme Court on Monday decided to review the petition of Karnataka on the Cauvery water sharing dispute on October 12 after the state sought a deferment on the issue. Karnataka has sought a stay on the Cauvery order which directs it to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. This came even as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs from Karnataka, led by Anant Kumar met Prime...
06:04 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: A delegation of BJP MPs from Karnataka on Monday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to demand that the order asking the state to provide Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu be withdrawn as the state is suffering from a shortage of water and facing drought-like conditions. The delegation comprising 16 BJP MPs from Karnataka met Singh at his office in New Delhi to inform him that the water level...
02:05 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday held consultations with Congress leaders from Karnataka on sharing of the Cauvery waters with Tamil Nadu during which they told him about the "grim" situation in Karnataka. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge, Minister of State for Railways KH Munniyappa along with Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal met the Prime Minister at his South Block office for an...
01:55 PM, Oct 08, 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
New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar met External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Monday requesting him to ask Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to change his order on sharing the Cauvery water with Tamil Nadu. The Prime Minister had asked Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu following the Cauvery River Authority's order. Karnataka, which recently battled a drought, has opposed it. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will...
09:13 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Bangalore: Intense protests over release of water to Tamil Nadu continued to sweep Cauvery river basin areas for the eighth day as Karnataka hoped for a "positive response" from the Supreme Court on Monday on its plea for reconsideration of the September 28 order. The agitators on Sunday continued their hunger-strike in Mandya, the Cauvery heartland, and staged a rasta-roko at Maddur-Gejjalagere, disrupting traffic on the Bangalore-Mysore highway. Processions were...
04:27 AM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi/Bangalore: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet Congress leaders from Karnataka on Monday over the Cauvery water dispute. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, Power Minister Veerappa Moily, BJP leader Ananth Kumar and Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal are likely to attend the meet. This comes amid demands by leaders from Karnataka to review the Cauvery River Authority's decision of asking the state to release 9,000 cusecs of water...
01:16 AM, 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
New Delhi: Amid water-sharing dispute between the two southern states, the Cauvery Monitoring Committee will meet in New Delhi on October 11 to decide on the issue of release of water from Karnataka to Tamil Nadu after October 15. The Cauvery River Authority (CRA) had recently directed Karnataka to release 9000 cuseces of water to Tamil Nadu on a daily basis between September 20 and October 15. The Monitoring Committee...
01:59 AM, Oct 07, 2012
Bangalore: Life was interrupted in Karnataka on Saturday with the 24-hour bandh called by Kannada outfits to protest the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. The protestors on Saturday even attempted to ransack the Wipro office in Mysore, demanding that work be stopped. Meanwhile, roads also wore a deserted look after autos, taxis, buses and lorries stayed off the roads in Bangalore and the rest of the state. Petrol...
06:33 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Bangalore: A few demonstraters entered the Mysore office of IT giant Wipro amidst the protests against release of Cauvery water during the bandh called by Kannada outfits in Karnataka on Saturday. The protesters entered the office and asked the staff to stop work in view of the bandh. A few of them tried to ransack the office. The dawn-to-dusk 'Karnataka bandh' called by the outfits to protest against the release...
03:44 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Bangalore: Highlighting the "grim" situation in Cauvery basin, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Saturday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop further release of water to Tamil Nadu and to seek a report from the team that has been deputed to assess the water situation. "I would kindly urge upon you to explore possibilities of stopping further release of water from dams in Karnataka and also call for...
11:09 AM, Oct 06, 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: The agitation against release of Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu hit Bangalore on Friday with religious leaders, Kanndada film actors, members of Kannada organizations and politicians taking out rallies. The rallies coincided with the visit of a team of central government officials to Cauvery basin areas in the state to assess water availability and the requirements of Karnataka. The two-member team arrived here on Thursday and had talks...
02:21 PM, Oct 05, 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: BJP rebel and former Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa has joined the Cauvery agitation. Launching an agitation against the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, Yeddyurappa declared that he is supporting the protest in his personal capacity. He attacked his own party government in the state for the current situation, saying that it was busy conducting postmortem of the case than fighting it in the apex court. He said...
11:43 AM, Oct 05, 2012
