Mandya: Consistent rains in Cauvery river catchment areas has increased the level of water in Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) Dam to 111.13 ft. (today) as against the maximum level of 124.80 ft, giving hopes that the dam would reach its maximum level soon. While the inflow of water to the dam is 5,365 cusecs, the outflow…
By Nataraj Kallichanda Owing to deficient rainfall, the State government has launched cloud-seeding at an estimated cost of Rs. 35 crore, for 60 days. Cloud-seeding will be done across three river basins — Cauvery, Malaprabha and Tungabhadra. The State government has described the cloud-seeding experiment as “essential” and that it would be taken up in…
Bengaluru: Even as farmers along the Cauvery basin in Kodagu, Mandya and Mysuru are up in arms against the State Government demanding water for their kharif crops, Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has ruled out Cauvery water to grow paddy and sugarcane. “This year, water will not be released for irrigating paddy and sugarcane fields,” he said….
Bengaluru: Even as there are widespread protests by the farming community demanding the State Government to release Cauvery water to their canals for them to take up agricultural activities, the Government has indicated that it will not be releasing water to the fields in the basin areas. Water Resources Minister M.B. Patil said yesterday that…
Bengaluru: A high-level meeting to decide on Cauvery water release to canals will be held in Bengaluru in one or two days. According to sources in the Government, as farmers across the Cauvery Basin in Karnataka are protesting demanding water to the canals so that they can start agriculture activities, the Government will decide on…
Mysuru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has demanded the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ending the Cauvery row involving Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. He maintained that the State had no choice but to follow Supreme Court order on release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. Speaking to press persons at Mysore Airport in Mandakalli here…
Mysuru: With over 10 months remaining for the Karnataka Assembly elections, all the three political parties, the Congress, the JD(S) and the BJP, seems to be in a poll mode. While the Congress is basking in glory with the Government’s achievements in the last four years and has launched a publicity blitzkrieg, the BJP is…
Mandya: Demanding release of water to Cauvery canals and filling up of major water bodies in the district, farmers belonging to one faction of the KRRS staged a demonstration in front of Cauvery Neeravari Nigam (CNN) office here yesterday. Hundreds of farmers, who converged on the CNN office after arriving in a procession on bullock…
The monsoon that was playing truant since June midweek has finally picked up since the last four days in Kodagu.
Mysuru: Strongly condemning the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu (TN), over a hundred farmers under the banner of Karnataka Sugarcane Growers Association staged a demonstration in front of the Cauvery CADA (Command Area Development Authority) office on Sayyaji Rao Road here on Friday. Alleging that the State Government was releasing water to TN…
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