Mysuru: Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports Pramod Madhwaraj inaugurated the newly-constructed office building of the Deputy Director for Fisheries, constructed at a cost of Rs. 90.80 lakh, in city yesterday. The office is located at Vasu Layout, 9th Cross in Ramakrishnanagar K-Block, Dattagalli. The office has been constructed at an area…
Mysuru: India is a country of festivals and holidays. If the holidays fall at the end of the week, then everyone plans on long weekend holidays. Luckily, August has two long weekends and Mysuru being a tourist city, there is a rush of visitors that began two days ago. It was second Saturday (a holiday on…
Madikeri: Congress spokesperson and Supreme Court Advocate Brijesh Kalappa, who is representing Karnataka in the final hearing on the contentious Cauvery River dispute at the Supreme Court, said that the decision on the Cauvery water dispute is likely to come either in the end of this year or in January next year. Addressing a press…
Mysuru/Mandya: How often do you see children playing cricket in a canal that supplies water to thousands of hectares of fertile land? Some children were found playing inside the Visvesvaraya Canal (Chikkadevaraya Canal) at Achappanakoppalu near Srirangapatna yesterday, reminding us of a grim situation that we are in where Karnataka is staring at a drought…
Mysuru: Demanding release of water in all canals of KRS, Kabini and Harangi reservoirs and to fill up large water bodies through lift irrigation projects, over 100 farmers, under the banner of KRRS and Hasiru Sene, staged a demonstration in front of Cauvery CADA office on Sayyaj Rao Road here this morning. Lashing out at…
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…
Mandya: More than 100 farmers under the banner of KRRS this morning laid siege to the entry of KRS Dam at Srirangapatna Taluk in the district, demanding immediate release of water to all canals of the Dam and stoppage of water to Tamil Nadu. But tight security prevented the farmers from entering into the Dam…
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: A group of 20 members from Karnataka Vintage and Classic Car Club, Bengaluru, drove into the Royal Orchid Brindavan Gardens Hotel at Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) reservoir yesterday with their vintage beauties for a get together. The families of 20 members of the Club left Bengaluru at about 7 am yesterday and reached Brindavan…
Mysuru: Traffic on Mysuru-Bengaluru road was held up for over an hour this morning at Kalasthavadi on the outskirts of the city as about 250 farmers from Naganahalli, Palahalli, Lakshmipura and other villages resorted to a snap stir and blocked the busy road demanding water to canals. The Police were caught napping as the farmers…
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