Water Release

Cauvery row: Karnataka CM to lead MPs delegation to Delhi

Belgaum: 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.

"I am leading a delegation of MPs from Cauvery basin tomorrow to hold talks with Union Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who is also Cauvery River Authority Chairman, to apprise them of the prevailing distress situation in Karnataka," Shettar said in the Assembly.

The delegation would brief them on the "poignant situation" in the state which is hit by drought and water shortage, Shettar said, adding that they would also seek legal opinion and views of experts before deciding the next step.

In an interim relief to Tamil Nadu, the apex court had on Wednesday directed Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs to Tamil Nadu and also asked the Cauvery Monitoring Committee to meet on December 7 or December 8 to decide the water requirements of both states....more    

Cauvery row: Protesters attack Wipro office amidst bandh

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...  

Cauvery row: Bandh disrupts normal life in Karnataka

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...  

Karnataka: Farmers protest against Kabini water release

Tension prevailed at the Kabini reservoir on Wednesday when farmers and members of Hasiru Sena protested the release of 10,000 cusecs of water from the reservoir. They stormed the dam site on Beechanahalli bridge facing the reservoir, forcing irrigation officials to reduce the outflow to 5,500 cusecs. The farmers also entered into a verbal duel with the police and irrigation officials. Though the department has banned movement of public on...