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 …
CHENNAI: For long, Tamil Nadu has been waging a war with Karnataka to secure its due share of Cauvery water. Now the fight, if the state goes by the report of the Central Pollution Control Board, may not just be about the quantity of water. It would also be about …
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government’s attempts to get immediate release of 15tmcft of Cauvery water did not yield a positive response from the Centre, with the ministry of water resources pointing to the proposed setting up of Cauvery Management Board in six weeks going by the Supreme Court verdict. Of …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of State of Karnataka Vs State of Tamil Nadu dated 16/02/2018 regarding allocation and sharing of water of river Cauvery. Supreme Court directs an additional 14.75 TMC of water to be awarded to the State of Karnataka. In view of …
The Committee of Commissioners, appointed by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, submitted a report on Tuesday on its inspection of sand mining in Tiruchi and Karur areas. The committee comprised advocates R. Alagumani and B. Saravanan and P. Ravichandran, Head, Department of Plant Science, Manonmanian Sundaranar University. …
The Centre’s ambitious plan to develop 11 rivers in Karnataka as National Waterways to enable transport of goods has not gone down too well with the Water Resources Department, which has questioned the very feasibility of the idea. The Public Works Department (PWD), however, is in favour of the project. …
Cauvery Hithrakshana Samithi president G Madegowda, on Wednesday, said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah should immediately stop releasing water from the KRS dam to Tamil Nadu. He said this while addressing the protesters during an indefinite stir by Raitha Sangha and Hasiru Sene and other farmer bodies near Sir M Visvesvaraya statue …
Karnataka on Tuesday criticised the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal’s decision for releasing water to Tamil Nadu every month, saying “it is like God sending rain to the state”. Calling the Tribunal's direction of 2007 as “arbitrary” for ignoring the needs of Karnataka, senior advocate F S Nariman, appearing for Karnataka, …
The firm must hold public hearings, prepare environment assessment report At a time when Kadiramangalam village is witnessing a massive protest over leakage from wells belonging to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), the Ministry of Environment and Forest’s Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) has recommended Standard Terms of …
BENGALURU: Chief minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said the age-long dispute with Tamil Nadu could have been avoided if timely action was taken to conserve resources. "We have been involved in a dispute with Tamil Nadu over sharing of Cauvery water for years. Had we been more careful in the use …
Despite the implementation of the underground drainage scheme sanctioned under the National River Conservation Programme (NRCP) mainly aimed at preventing the pollution of the Cauvery a decade ago, sewage from open drains continue to flow into the river. On Monday, a group of youth of Mela Chinthamani in the city …
At its source, wells are drying up as swathes of forest lie submerged by dams or cut down for rail and power lines It's only once a year that the priests of the Kaveriamma temple at Talakaveri, the source of river Cauvery in Kodagu (Coorg), use water from the holy …
A group of residents of villages around Unniyur have opposed the Public Works Department move to open a sand quarry on the Cauvery river in the village. In a representation to the district authorities at the public grievance meeting, the villagers said that opening of the sand quarry would adversely …
BENGALURU: More than 12 lakh residents in and around Mahadevapura, Dasarahalli, Bommanahalli, Raja Rajeshwari Nagar and Byatarayanapura will get Cauvery drinking water to their homes under the 5th stage of the Cauvery water supply scheme. It will benefit thousands of families living in 110 villages which were merged into Bengaluru …
Once sighted in the thousands, the Blue-tailed bee-eater is a sparsely spotted bird these days. Bird watchers and photographers say their numbers have significantly declined from thousands to a few hundreds in the last five years. In South India, the tiny beauty is endemic to Chandagala, a village on the …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of State of Karnataka Vs State of Tamil Nadu & Others dated 21/03/2017 regarding Cauvery water dispute. The basic prayer in these interlocutory applications is that the State of Kerala should not utilize the water more than that has been …
The Cabinet on Wednesday gave in-principle approval for implementing the long-pending Mekedatu multipurpose project utilising the Cauvery river water at a cost of Rs 5,912 crore. Briefing reporters after the Cabinet meeting, Law Minister T B Jayachandra said the project will help Karnataka utilise excess river water that, otherwise, goes …
The protest of Tamils against the ban on Jallikattu is a trigger. The pent-up anger against the successive policies of the central government and corporate encroachment of resources is the main cause of massive turnout in the protests. The protests displayed the limits of the Hindu right’s attempts to make …
The Supreme Court asked Karnataka to continue releasing 2000 cusecs of Cauvery water to neighbouring State of Tamil Nadu while posting appeals filed by Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala against the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal's decision on water-sharing for day-to-day hearing. Stressing the urgency to resolve the prolonged water dispute …
Several parts of the state are already facing severe drinking water scarcity which could worsen in the days to come. There is now an apprehension among weather experts that Karnataka is slipping into its worst-ever drought. A failed Northeast monsoon could result in aggravating the drought scene in the coming …
CHENNAI: Just words are not enough, Union government should officially annul methane and shale gas projects in the Cauvery delta as a policy decision. This was the argument put forth by the farmers' organisations before the southern bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday in response to the recent …
