Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government today requested the Centre to constitute the Cauvery Management Board and Cauvery Water Regulation committee to give effect to all provisions of the final award of the Cauvery water Disputes Tribunal. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa thanked him for notification of the award and [...]
Erode: Vehicles have stopped plying from Sathyamangalam near here to Mysore following demonstrations and hartal by some Kannada outfits in parts of Karnataka protesting the Supreme Court directive to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. For the second consecutive day, more than 800 lorries, 300 vans and 200 other vehicles have been parked [...]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to meet and arrive at an amicable solution to the “sensitive” Cauvery water dispute. “Why the two Chief Ministers can’t sit together? Give it a try, it is not impossible,” a bench of justices D K Jain and Madan B [...]
Bangalore: Denied appointment by Prime Minister, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar today criticised Manmohan Singh for the September 19 order of Cauvery River Authority headed by him on release of water to Tamil Nadu, and said it had no basis and was an “injustice” to the state. Shettar left here on Sunday to meet the Prime [...]
Mandya: A day after Karnataka government stopped release of water to Tamil Nadu citing low storage in K R S reservoir, farmers here said they would continue their dharna till the Cauvery River Authority reviewed its earlier directive. “Till the CRA headed by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave its verdict, we will continue the [...]
Chennai: PMK founder S Ramadoss today flayed Karnataka for stopping release of water to Tamil Nadu from the KRS reservoir and demanded that the Centre take over all dams constructed across the Cauvery river. He also slammed the Tamil Nadu government for not involving opposition parties even as the neighbouring state government had convened all-party [...]
New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar today met Union Minister S M Krishna here today amid demands by Karnataka leaders for a review of Cauvery River Authority’s decision asking the state to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. The interaction assumes significance as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convened a meeting of [...]
Bangalore: Former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today launched an attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for asking Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu daily “without assessment of ground reality” on water storage levels in this state. Yeddyurappa, who began a day-long dharna to protest the CRA order, demanded that the [...]
Bangalore: Protests over the Cauvery water dispute gained momentum today with Kannada outfits planning several high-voltage rallies in the city even as the state government briefed a Central team on the water storage levels in reservoirs. Former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa is scheduled to begin a day-long dharna against the Prime Minister-chaired Cauvery River Authority’s order to Karnataka to release [...]
Nestled on the banks of the Cauvery river, around 30km from Mysore, a new temple construction has, for months, been attracting curious devotees and architecture enthusiasts by the dozen. The eager villagers on the streets were more accurate than my phone’s GPS in helping me track the road to this much-talked-about Vishnu temple. The narrow [...]
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Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
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