Traces Horticulturist Krumbiegel’s footsteps at KRS, Mysuru Zoo By N. Niranjan Nikam Mysuru: The six-day pilgrimage that Alyia Phelps Gardiner Krumbiegel, great-granddaughter of Horticulturist and designer of Brindavan Gardens and Lalbagh Gustav Herman Krumbiegel, undertook to Mysuru, ended on a sombre note, with the immersion of her mother’s ashes at Sangama in Srirangapatna on Aug.3….
KRS Disneyland project SCRAPPED?
August 4, 2019Mysuru: The new BJP government is likely to drop the controversial Disneyland project at Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam initiated by the previous Coalition Government. A high-level meeting will be held in Bengaluru under the chairmanship of Cauvery Neeravari Nigama Limited (CNNL) Managing Director H.L. Prasanna Kumar at his office tomorrow morning to decide the…
Cloud-seeding soon in KRS and Malnad regions: CM
August 4, 2019Bengaluru: Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said here on Saturday that the authorities have been directed to intensify cloud-seeding in KRS and Malnad regions where rainfall has been deficient. Regretting that rainfall did not happened as expected, Yediyurappa said that as KRS and Malnad regions have not received enough rains, he has instructed officials to start…
Storage in KRS lowest in the last 45 years
August 2, 2019Bengaluru: The water level in all the four reservoirs in the Cauvery Basin in Karnataka is lowest since last four-and-a-half decades (45 years), according to the Department of Water Resources. Official sources said that the water level in all the reservoirs in the Cauvery Basin, including Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS), Kabini, Harangi and Gorur stood…
Cauvery Authority asks Karnataka to release 9.19 tmcft of water to TN
August 2, 2019Mandya MP Sumalatha counters Dayanidhi Maran’s allegations New Delhi: The Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) yesterday directed Karnataka to release 9.19 tmcft (thousand million cubic feet) of water to Tamil Nadu, which is suffering one of its worst dry spells and acute shortages of drinking water. This was CWMA’s fourth meeting since its formation in…
Telemetric Water Gauge at KRS, Harangi
July 25, 2019Provides sensor-based online real-time data on storage level to officials in New Delhi Madikeri/Mysuru: Telemetric Water Gauge has been installed at Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam in Mandya district and also at Harangi Dam in Kodagu for sensor-based real-time data on the storage level, inflow and outflow of the reservoirs. The installation comes weeks after…
Farmers stage protest against release of water to TN
July 23, 2019Mysuru: Condemning the State Government’s action of releasing water to Tamil Nadu from KRS and Kabini dams, more than 50 farmers under the banner of Karnataka State Sugarcane Growers Association staged a protest in front of CADA office on Sayyaji Rao road here yesterday morning. Accusing the Government of failing to protect the interests of…
Water release amidst shortage irks farmers
July 21, 2019While Gejjaganahalli farmers protest inside a dry canal; Farmers of Nanjangud protest inside Kapila River Mandya/Mysuru: Even as the MLAs of all three major political parties in the State are busy formulating strategies either to safeguard the State Government or topple it, the farmers of old Mysuru region, especially those from Mandya and Mysuru districts…
Despite shortage, water released to Tamil Nadu
July 20, 2019Only moderate rainfall in Kodagu; KRS, Harangi, Kabini yet to fill up Srirangapatna: Karnataka has started releasing Cauvery water from the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam to Tamil Nadu since last evening. The crest gates of the Dam were opened to release 4,500 cusecs of water, said Irrigation Department officials. This morning, the outflow was…
State Government releases water from KRS to Visvesvaraya Canal
July 16, 2019Water to be released till July 25 Mandya: There was a feeling of joy among the farming community with the State Government releasing water from KRS to Visvesvaraya Canal for a period of 10 days from today. The decision to release water was taken yesterday during an emergency meeting of Irrigation Consultative Committee involving Ministers…
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