An all-party delegation from Karnataka would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday to apprise him of the state's position on the Cauvery issue. The announcement to take a delegation of floor leaders of both Houses of the state legislature to New Delhi was made by Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar in the Assembly on Wednesday. ...
10:50 PM, Feb 13, 2013
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 has directed Karnataka to release 2 tmc feet of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court has also slammed the Centre for not notifying the order given by the Cauvery Water Tribunal five years ago. ...
03:20 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Chennai/Bangalore: The emotive Cauvery water sharing dispute continues to keep Karnataka and Tamil Nadu tense. The Cauvery Monitoring Committee has come out with a distress sharing formula, but yet another appeal will be before the Supreme Court in two days. 10,000 cusecs of water every day till Monday and 12,000 million cubic feet of water by the end of the month will flow to Tamil Nadu. That was the diktat...
09:29 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Bangalore: 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". Referring to the demand of her state, Jayalalithaa said that she had requested Karnataka to release at least 32 tmc-ft...
04:23 PM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to meet and sort out the differences over the Cauvery river water sharing issue. The apex court asked Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to break the logjam through a meaningful dialogue and arrive at an amicable solution. "Why the two Chief Ministers can't sit together? Give it...
12:41 PM, Nov 26, 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
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
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday expressed its displeasure over the failure of the PMO (Prime Minister's Office) to hold a meeting for the resolution of the Cauvery water-sharing dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. An apex court bench of Justice DK Jain and Justice Madan B Lokur, while adjourning the matter for Friday, asked whether it should fix the date for the meeting of the committee headed by...
12:42 PM, Sep 03, 2012
