Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In re : News item appearing in Hindu dated 11.12.2023 titled “Cauvery basin lost nearly 12,850 sq.km. of green cover” dated 10/01/2024. The original application is registered suo motu on the basis of the news item titled “Cauvery basin lost …
Bengaluru now has an actionplan to restore its waterbodies after the Karnataka High Court accepted the report of a committee appointed to prepare a framework for the preservation of the city's lakes. The court had appointed the committee headed by Justice NK Patil in November last year to examine the …
Bhubaneswar: The Supreme Court has directed both the state governments to jointly form an expert technical committee to look into the controversial Polavaram project. The committee members would visit the project site, interact with the affected people and ascertain whether the project is being executed as per the guidelines of …
Union Minister M K Alagiri on Sunday laid the foundation stone for a Rs 780-crore drinking water scheme in Madurai and said the welfare schemes launched by his father and CM M Karunanidhi will help DMK to retain power in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, due in May.
CENTRE:BJP president Nitin Gadkari addresses party workers during the celebration of completion of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa's 1000 days in office, in Bangalore on Sunday. BANGALORE: Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said that the NDA, if voted to power, would link the Ganga and the Cauvery to …
The Tamil Nadu Water Resources Department is concerned at the reported arrangements being made by the Karnataka government to draw the Cauvery water for a drinking water project at a point 30 km downstream the Hogenakkal falls but within Karnataka limits. The drawal point is 25 km upstream the Stanley …
KARAIKAL: ONGC-Cauvery Asset has proposed to spend about Rs. 3 crore towards corporate social responsibility, as per the revised guidelines of the organisation. This was observed by its Executive Director A. Vazeerullah at the Republic Day celebrations here in Neravy frounds of Cauvery Asset . Amidst a gathering of employees …
People in Erode town have expressed serious concern over the indiscriminate discharge of untreated effluents from the textile processing and tannery units into the Pichakkaran Pallam Odai, a major water carrying canal in the town. Thousands of gallons of untreated effluents that are being let into the canal, finally flow …
Farmers of Karur district, who are plagued by industrial pollution for several decades now, have decided to intensify their struggle to put a permanent end to the menace. The affected farmers have decided to convene a regional conference in Karur, Erode and Tirupur districts on January 28 and chalk out …
The Rs. 11 crore third new water supply expansion project that would be launched by Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday would double the water supply to residents of the municipal limit, says it's Chairman R. Selvaraj. The two existing water schemes supply around 40 lakh litres a day …
Every November angling enthusiasts journey to three fishing camps on the banks of the Cauvery river near the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka. The trip for them is an annual pilgrimage. The anglers come to pit their wits against India's mighty fish, the mahseer. This tiger fish is angled on …
After a remarkable season last year, the errant, but incessant, showers brought in by the northeast monsoon have this time inundated about a fourth of Tamil Nadu's rice bowl, besides causing loss of lives, livelihood and material. The downstream areas of Cauvery Delta region, especially in and around Nagapattinam, have …
AIADMK general secretary and Opposition leader Jayalalithaa on Saturday demanded the resignation of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on moral grounds since he has failed to ensure release of water from Cauvery to Tamil Nadu despite being in power in the state and the Centre.
The refusal of Karnataka government to release Cauvery water has brought the rive water dispute to the centre stage again, with Tamil Nadu opposition leaders, including former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, hitting out at Chief Minister M Karunanidhi for not taking sufficient steps to acquire water and save the standing …
CHENNAI: Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Thursday declined to comment on the stand of Karnataka government on the release of Cauvery water even as demands for convening an all-party meeting to discuss the issue and asking the CM to meet the Prime Minister to ensure the release of water started …
Within hours of the state government announcing that it was ''impossible'' to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, 8,800 cusec was let out from the KRS dam on Wednesday night. BRAINSTROMING: Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, Leader of the Opposition S Siddaramaiah, minister Murugesh Nirani and M C Nanaiah of …
Chamarajanagar: MP R Dhruvanarayan on Tuesday expressed his displeasure over non-start of single programme under Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme(MGREGS) in the district. MP R Dhruvanarayan chairing a meeting of the district vigilance and monitoring committee, in Chamarajanagar. Dh PhotoThe MP, who is also the member of the central …
TIRUCHI: The Tiruchi District Cauvery Delta Farmers Welfare Association has urged the government to take steps to clear of silt and widen all the 17 irrigation canals in the Tiruchi region so as to ensure that water for irrigation reached the tail-end areas. The association also urged the government to …
