Mandya: Five persons including a 10-year-old girl were drowned while playing in the water at Visvesvaraya Canal in Doddakothagere village in the taluk yesterday afternoon. The deceased have been identified as Anish Begum (34), her daughters Mehtab (10), Tasmia (23), Atika Begum (22) and son Aswaq Ahmed (28), all residents of Neelasandra in Bengaluru. On…
Father, son meet watery grave while bathing sheep in canal
November 4, 2020Mandya: A man and his son, who had gone to a canal to bathe their sheep, have been drowned. The incident took place on Sunday afternoon at Visvesvaraya Canal at Goravale village in the taluk. The deceased are Hanumanthegowda (48) and his son Hemanth (13) of Goravale. Hemanth, who was bathing his sheep, accidentally slipped…
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…
KRS touching 100-ft mark is no child’s play !
August 8, 2017Mysuru/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…
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