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: 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: Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa is expected to take out a massive rally in Bangalore against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's directive to the state to release 9,000 cusecs of water daily from the Cauvery to Tamil Nadu. Karnataka has erupted in protests ever since the Supreme Court gave a directive to the state government to release water. Farmers groups said it will affect their irrigation facilities. Tamil Nadu...
09:14 AM, Oct 05, 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
Complying with the Supreme Court directive, Karnataka on Sunday began release of Cauvery River water to Tamil Nadu, triggering widespread protests across the district and disrupting vehicular movement. "We are not in a position to release Cauvery River water but with due respect to the Supreme Court direction we are complying its order," said Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar. ...
04:25 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Mandya: Complying with the Supreme Court directive, Karnataka on Sunday began release of Cauvery River water to Tamil Nadu, triggering widespread protests across the district and disrupting vehicular movement. Irrigation authorities told PTI that about 5,000 cusecs of water was being released from Krishnarajasagar Dam and Kabini Reservoir since Saturday night. According to sources, Karnataka will be ensuring flow of 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. The decision comes...
11:01 AM, Sep 30, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka government on Saturday decided to send a petition to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the Cauvery River water dispute. It will request Singh to stay the September 19 order of Cauvery River Authority, headed by him, directing the state to release 9,000 cusecs of water daily to Tamil Nadu from September 20 to October 15. "The order asks Karnataka to abide by the CRA's order of releasing...
05:48 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Karnataka government to release up to 9000 cusecs of water from the Cauvery daily to Tamil Nadu till October 20. Tamil Nadu is facing a severe shortage of irrigation water due to rainfall deficit. Passing the order, the apex court said that it was unfortunate that Karnataka was not following the orders of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA), a committee headed...
03:47 PM, Sep 28, 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
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on Wednesday will be facing the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) for the first time in nine years headed by the Prime Minister in New Delhi. Chennai wants Bangalore to release 2 TMC of water from Cauvery river as crops have been destroyed due to a deficit monsoon. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who has been vociferously demanding such a meeting to discuss thread-bare...
07:11 AM, Sep 19, 2012
Chennai: With the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) all set to meet on Wednesday after a gap of nearly 9 years, there is an uneasy calm prevailing among farmers in the Delta region. They are eagerly looking at the signals coming from Karnataka, where political parties have declared they would not release water to Tamil Nadu, as an indication of the stressful season ahead for cultivation. While a temporary relief was...
12:24 PM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will chair the much-awaited meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) for the first time in nine years on Wednesday primarily to discuss Tamil Nadu's demand that Karnataka release water from Cauvery river to save the crops that depend on it. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who has been vociferously demanding such a meeting to discuss thread-bare water issues between the state and...
09:26 PM, Sep 16, 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
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu's plea for water from the Cauvery is all set to come up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Monday. The plea has sought a direction to Karnataka from the apex court to release 2 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) of water from the river to the state that is facing a rainfall deficit. One crop of the current season has already been destroyed in the...
07:57 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday renewed her request to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convene a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) headed by him to finalise the distress sharing formula. She also wanted the PM to direct Karnataka to release water immediately to help farmers in Tamil Nadu cultivate the Samba crop.Pointing that the PM was yet to respond to her demand, on May 18, to...
08:09 AM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear the application filed by the State of Tamil Nadu on the Cauvery row seeking convening of a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority on August 17. A Bench comprising Justice D K Jain and Justice Madan B Lokur heard the submissions of senior counsel C S Vaidyanathan, Additional Advocate General Guru Krishnakumar and Umapathy Ganeshan averring that the application was filed for directing...
12:43 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday charged the UPA government with suffering from "policy paralysis" and said it was "so much struggling with internal squabblings" that it could not even look into "livelihood issues" such as the Cauvery river water problem. The AIADMK chief said her repeated pleas to the Centre and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that the 2007 final verdict of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal...
12:48 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Chennai: Charging Karnataka with "unjustly utilising" Cauvery water for summer irrigation, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday asked Prime Minister Manmhohan Singh to convene a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority to discuss the issue. Karnataka has been "unjustly utilising" the water for summer irrigation from February to May by depleting storage in its four major reservoirs, she said in a letter to Singh. The combined gross storage in...
11:42 AM, May 19, 2012
