The Karnataka government is refusing to budge in the Cauvery water sharing dispute. The state government is reluctant to give water to Tamil Nadu for paddy crop despite the Supreme Court's order. The Jagadish Shettar-led Karnataka government is looking at other legal options. ...
03:22 PM, Feb 07, 2013
The Supreme Court has provided some relief to Tamil Nadu in the Cauvery water sharing dispute. The apex court has directed Karnataka to release 2.44 tmc of water to Tamil Nadu for the paddy crop. The court also observed that this limit will not adversely affect Karnataka's drinking water requirement. ...
11:28 AM, Feb 07, 2013
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
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
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
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met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to demand that the order asking the state to provide Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu be withdrawn as the state is suffering from a shortage of water and facing drought-like conditions.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: 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
Mandya (Karnataka): A farmers' body spearheading the stir against release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu began a relay hunger strike in Mandya in protest against Karnataka's action and warned that people would stop paying taxes if government did not heed their demand to stop the flow by Thursday evening. "We have set a deadline to the government... if the water release is not stopped by this evening, people will...
12:07 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Bangalore: 11.40 am: Four Janata Dal (Secular) MLAs and one MP from Mandya send resignations to party leader HD Kumaraswamy in protest against release of water. 11.34 am: HD Kumaraswamy says JD(S) President HD Devegowda will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the matter. "He will request him to reconsider his order," says Kumaraswamy. He adds that although the SC order has to obeyed, "Karnataka can't release water for a...
11:48 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday accused DMK president M Karunanidhi of adopting double standards on the Cauvery dispute, Kudankulam nuclear project and power shortage. "It was Karunanidhi who betrayed the interests of state in the Cauvery river water issue. In the assembly, he said Tamil Nadu had no objection to Karnataka building the Hemavathi dam," Jayalalithaa said in a statement. She said that in 1972, Karunanidhi...
01:42 AM, Sep 26, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu has moved the Supreme Court against Karnataka for its share of water of the Cauvery river. Tamil Nadu says 9,000 cusecs of water is not enough. However, Karnataka says it is enough, rather too much. Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar had walked out of a recent meeting chaired by the Prime Minister over Cauvery water sharing. The cauvery river authority headed by the Prime Minister had...
03:16 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has claimed that the talks on the controversy over the sharing of water from River Cauvery have failed. The AIADMK chief has said that she will again go to the Supreme Court to seek justice. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister alleged that Karnataka was not willing to release water for her state. Jayalalithaa further said that the ruling by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
08:15 PM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: Karnataka on Monday agreed to release 1000 cusecs of water from the Cauvery daily to Tamil Nadu till September 19 to help it overcome its irrigational water deficit. Tamil Nadu had filed a plea at the Supreme Court seeking direction to Karnataka to release 2 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) of water to the state to deal with its ongoing irrigational water shortage. Monsoons have been deficient this...
02:12 PM, Sep 10, 2012
