New Delhi/Bangalore: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet Congress leaders from Karnataka on Monday over the Cauvery water dispute. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, Power Minister Veerappa Moily, BJP leader Ananth Kumar and Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal are likely to attend the meet. This comes amid demands by leaders from Karnataka to review the Cauvery River Authority's decision of asking the state to release 9,000 cusecs of water...
01:16 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Cuddalore: A report would be submitted to the Centre within three days about the water scarcity and difficulties in raising 'samba' (long-term) paddy crop, leader of the central team, currently touring Cauvery delta districts of Tamil Nadu to assess the water-situation, said. Chief Engineer RK Gupta was talking to reporters after meeting farmers at Thoraiapadi, Natarajapuram, Vallampadugai, Kodipallam villages in Chidambaram Taluk. Earlier, the four-member team assessed the water-situation in...
04:27 PM, Oct 07, 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
Bangalore: Highlighting the "grim" situation in Cauvery basin, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Saturday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop further release of water to Tamil Nadu and to seek a report from the team that has been deputed to assess the water situation. "I would kindly urge upon you to explore possibilities of stopping further release of water from dams in Karnataka and also call for...
11:09 AM, Oct 06, 2012
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: 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
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
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
Mandya: The Cauvery water sharing war has escalated in Karnataka. Over 5,000 Karnataka activists and farmer groups laid siege to the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam. The government has enforced prohibitory orders in a 1 km radius around the dam. Rapid Action Force companies have also been deployed. Farmers continued to throng the venue protesting against sharing the Cauvery water with Tamil Nadu. Prohibitory orders have been promulgated close to...
01:44 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi: "God help this country", the Supreme Court observed on Monday, as it chided the Government on the issue of providing accommodation in the national capital to members of tribunals. The court also put a poser as to whether the retired judges who are on the tribunals are expected to "roam" on the streets of Delhi. A bench of justices RM Lodha and AR Dave issued notice to the...
11:23 PM, Oct 01, 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: 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
Bangalore: The farmer protests in Karnataka against the release of water from the Cauvery to Tamil Nadu have not died down. On Monday, farmer groups blocked the Bangalore-Mysore national highway in protest against the Supreme Court order to release 9,000 cusecs of water from the river to the neighbouring state daily till October 15. Several trains connecting Bangalore and Mysore were also hit. To ensure security, the government deployed three...
10:37 AM, 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
Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna will be addressing the United Nation General Assembly in New York on Monday. Several issues are going to be on his agenda, terrorism being the foremost. Other focus areas will include UN Security Council reforms, the piracy issue and the conflict in Syria. Krishna is also likely to meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the sidelines of the session to discuss the ...
09:28 AM, Oct 01, 2012
