BENGALURU: The Karnataka government on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court expressing its inability to release 5,000 cusecs of water per day to Tamil Nadu from the Cauvery reservoirs in the state.It has also urged the centre’s intervention in the matter and has sought for immediate intervention of the union government to construct the Mekedatu balancing reservoir.On late Tuesday evening, through the...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court allowed a farmers' association on Monday to give a fresh representation to the city police for holding a peaceful demonstration at Jantar Mantar here to raise various issues, including a demand for the release of the Cauvery water by Karnataka to Tamil Nadu. A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Narula was informed by the Delhi government's...
CHENNAI: With the Karnataka government refusing to release water, the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) has convened an emergency meeting on September 18.The Tamil Nadu government was informed about the meeting on Friday. “The authority’s last meeting (on August 29) was also an emergency one with a single-point agenda on sharing water,” said an official.The Cauvery Water Regulation...
CHENNAI: Fewer overcrowded prisons, an increased representation of women among prison staff and fewer vacancies have helped Tamil Nadu's prisons department to emerge as the number one in the country, according to the India Justice Report (IJR) 2022. For Tamil Nadu prisons department, this is a substantial jump as it was ranked 10th in IJR 2019 and sixth in IJR 2020."The prison occupancy rate in Tamil...
BENGALURU: The Congress leadership has informally asked candidates and functionaries to refrain from attacking PM Modi and getting into Hindutva-versus-secularism debates during the campaign for the May 10 Karnataka assembly elections, reports Anil Gejji."If we say anything against Modi, it will be blown out of proportion and efforts will be made to change the poll narrative..." is the message learned...
NEW DELHI: Though BJP executed an interesting social-engineering move by rejigging the caste quotas while making forays into the Vokkaliga constituency of JDS in the old Mysuru region, it continues to view the numerically preponderant Lingayats as its core constituency.Evidently, that is the reason when Lingayat community veteran B S Yediyurappa quit as chief minister, he was replaced by Basavaraj...
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India announced the schedule for the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections on Wednesday.The elections in the southern state will be held in a single phase on May 10. The counting of votes will be done on May 13.Addressing a press conference in Delhi, Chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar said the notification for the elections will be issued on April 13 and the...
BENGALURU: Karnataka BJP MLA Madal Virupakshappa was arrested by Lokayutka police Monday evening at Kyatsandra near Tumakuru in an alleged bribery case. Virupakshappa has been arraigned as accused No. 1 in a bribery case, following his son Prashanth Kumar's arrest when he was caught accepting a kickback of Rs 40 lakh from a contractor on behalf of his father for a tender issued by the state-owned...
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