Now that the Attorney General has opined that Punjab cannot object to it, the Jammu and Kashmir government is planning to go ahead with the construction of the Ravi canal from Basantpur up to the i

According to the 1892 Madras-Mysore agreement, Karnataka cannot take up any work without Tamil Nadu's consent

The Tamil Nadu government on Monday said it will move Supreme Court against neighbouring Karnataka over the river Pennaiyar dispute. PWD Minister K V Ramalingam told Tamil Nadu Assembly that Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had issued directions in this regard, after opposition DMK and Left parties moved a Special Call Attention on the situation arising out of Karnataka taking up some work regarding check dam on the river.

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today took exception to his Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda's offer to resolve the contentious river waters issue with Punjab amicably through parleys.

Holding out an olive branch to Punjab in the ongoing inter-state waters dispute, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today offered to settle it by sitting across the table with his Punjab

The state delegation led by chief minister Jagadish Shettar urged prime minister Manmohan Singh not to constitute the Cauvery Management Board.

Andhra Pradesh objects to Karnataka constructing the Paragodu barrage on a tributary of the Krishna river, but Karnataka denies violating any inter-State water-sharing agreement.

Haryana and Punjab have long been at loggerheads over the sharing of river waters. The issue has been brought up time and again but political compulsions do not allow either of the states to go ahead and resolve the matter. The SYL canal has time and again hampered relations between the two states.

It even saw the killing of 31 migrant labourers who were digging the SYL in May, 1988, bringing the construction of the canal to a halt.

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Karnataka to release 2.44 tmc of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, though the Jayalalithaa government had demanded 12 tmc water ostensibly to save its standing cro

The Centre on Monday came in the line of fire of the Supreme Court for failing to notify the 2007 Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal (CWDT) award despite an assurance given to the court.

Censuring the government for "flouting" the statute by failing to publish the award for more than five years, a Bench, led by Justice R M Lodha, refused to grant it more time and set a deadline of February 20 for notifying the award and publishing it in the gazette.