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CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Friday urged Union minister Giriraj Singh to release total wage liability of Rs 2,697 crore under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) immediately.In a letter to the minister, a copy of which was released to the media, the chief minister recalled the representations made by the public and public representatives in...

HOOGHLY/MIDNAPORE: The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) is scheduled to release another 65,000 cusec of water from Maithan and Panchet dams in the next 24 hours, a move that threatens to aggravate the flood situation in Hooghly, Howrah and Burdwan.Thursday, however, had brought some relief to some flood-stricken south Bengal areas as water levels there began to recede in certain localities as less water...

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government will make a demand at the Cauvery Water Management Authority’s meeting on Friday afternoon that Karnataka release water at the rate of 12,500 cusecs daily. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of state-wide bandh call given by the pro-Kannada organisations, Tamil Nadu water resources minister Duraimurugan said the state was asking for as it lacked water and not that...

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: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday launch the International Big Cats Alliance (IBCA) and release the latest figures of the country's tiger population at Karnataka State Open University, Mysuru. The IBCA aims to focus on protection and conservation of seven major big cats of the world -- Tiger, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Puma, Jaguar and Cheetah -- through curbing poaching and...