New Delhi: The Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) has suggested that Karnataka should release 2,600 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from Nov. 1 to 23, amounting to 5 tmcft (thousand million cubic feet). However, Karnataka has maintained its stance of not being able to release water to Tamil Nadu. The Cauvery Water Management Authority…
Mysore/Mysuru: A delegation of Karnataka Jala Samrakshana Samiti, led by farmer leader and Karnataka Sugarcane Growers Association President Kurubur Shantakumar, met Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekawat at New Delhi recently and presented him a memorandum urging him to stay the CWMA (Cauvery Water Management Authority) order on release of Cauvery water to Tamil…
Mysore/Mysuru: Cauvery Kriya Samiti has continued its indefinite protest over the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu by the State Government. At a protest organised near Town Hall in the city by the Committee on Gandhi Jayanti day, senior BJP leader and MP from Chamarajanagar V. Sreenivasa Prasad also lent his support by participating…
Irrigation expert Arjunahalli Prasanna Kumar says parties were passive when in power but played politics when in Opposition Mysore/Mysuru: Irrigation expert Arjunahalli Prasanna Kumar has levelled serious allegations against the Congress, BJP and JD(S), holding them responsible for the injustices faced by Karnataka’s farmers in the contentious Cauvery water-sharing dispute. He stressed that there is…
Mysore/Mysuru: As the Cauvery row continues to rage with no solution in sight, Suttur Mutt Seer Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji has called for an amicable and lasting solution to the long-pending issue. In a press release, the Swamiji said that all the authorities concerned should utilise the necessary volume of Cauvery water for drinking water,…
To quantify the water Karnataka releases to Tamil Nadu, the Centre has constituted a Committee. In that Committee every member is a Tamilian. In this Committee there is an engineer nominated by Karnataka and the irony is even that engineer is a Tamilian. — H.D. Kumaraswamy, former Chief Minister Having written enough and more in…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Government yesterday decided to challenge Cauvery Water Management Authority’s (CWMA) decision upholding the order of Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) to release 3,000 cusecs of water daily to Tamil Nadu until Oct. 15. The State announced its intention to file a review petition with both the CWMA and the Supreme Court on…
More than 1000 vehicles to be taken in a procession from Bengaluru to KRS dam in Mandya Bengaluru: Buoyed by the success of Karnataka Bandh call given by several pro-Kannada organisations on Friday, Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha leader Vatal Nagaraj has said, “Karnataka which has witnessed two bandhs in one week will witness another mammoth…
Every time there is failure of rains and the river Cauvery drains, there is fire in the plains. Yesterday, a Karnataka Statewide Bandh was organised to voice opposition to the Government’s decision to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. But what purpose did the recent bandhs serve? Did it bring rain? Did it stop the…
Prohibitory Orders under Section 144 CrPC imposed in Mandya district limits of Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway Mysuru/Bengaluru: The whole of Karnataka came to a standstill today, following the dawn to dusk ‘Karnataka Bandh’ call given by various pro-Kannada organisations and supported by several other organisations, over the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu complying with the…
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