New Delhi: Karnataka on Thursday reiterated its stand on Cauvery water release to Tamil Nadu, informing the Monitoring Committee that it can't release more water to the south Indian state. The Supreme Court will now take up the matter on Friday. The Monitoring Committee report will be sent to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Earlier, Tamil Nadu on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to initiate contempt proceedings against Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and 6 others for alleged "brazen, willful and deliberate defiance" of the apex court's order to release 9,000 cusecs of water to the State from Cauvery basis.
In an application filed through counsel Umapathi Ganesh, the State said Karnataka's alleged defiance if allowed would lead to total anarchy and jeopardising democracy, judiciary and quasi-federal structure of the Constitution....
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05:34 PM, Oct 11, 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
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: Protests against release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu continued for the second day on Monday with authorities deciding to deploy Rapid Action Force (RAF) to maintain peace in Mandya, the epicentre of the stir, even as four JD(S) MLAs and an MP submitted resignations to the party state unit chief to protest the government action. Lending their political might to the agitation, the four JD(S) MLAs and an...
03:26 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Bangalore: The release of 5,000 cusecs of water each from Kabini and KRS reservoirs to Tamil Nadu on the directions of the Supreme Court late on Saturday night has thrown normal life out of gear in the Cauvery basin as hundreds of people took to the streets on Sunday, demanding the government to stop water discharge. Farmers, politicians and Kannada activists blocked the busy Bangalore-Mysore Highway by assembling bullock carts...
10:12 AM, Oct 01, 2012
