Criticising the Union ministers from the State for not making any attempts to get Karnataka an appointment with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the Cauvery issue, BJP General Secretary and MP Ananth Kumar has hoped the four ministers will make efforts in this direction at least now.

Addressing the party’s Bangalore district workers’ meeting in Bangalore on Monday, Kumar said that Union Ministers Mallikarjun Kharge, M Veerappa Moily, K H Muniyappa and Rahman Khan should endeavour towards getting Karnataka leaders an appointment with Singh, as the Cauvery issue was contentious.

People on City fringes aren’t in a hurry to complete formalities, despite water worries

People on the City’s fringes do not seem to be in a hurry to avail new water connections from Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), under the Cauvery IV stage II phase project that was commissioned in October. This despite facing severe water crisis.

Seeks remainder of what was originally demanded earlier this month

With the imminent closure of the Mettur dam for irrigation looming large, the State government has decided to move the Supreme Court, seeking around 20 thousand million cubic feet (tmc ft). The quantum is the remainder of what (30 tmc ft) was originally demanded by Tamil Nadu before the court early this month. Subsequently, the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC) directed Karnataka to release 12 tmc ft. Since the beginning of this month, the State realised about seven tmc ft of the Cauvery water.

ONGC's foreign arm had agreed to buy firm's stake in Kashagan field for $5 bn

US-based ConocoPhillips is in talks with state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation ( ONGC) to pick stake in more than one of its ultra-deep-water blocks. A senior executive from ONGC said ConocoPhillips, US’s third largest energy giant, had examined 19 of its blocks and would shortly decide the ones it planned to pick a stake in.

The Supreme Court today made it clear that it will not interfere with the Cauvery Monitoring Committee’s (CMC) order directing Karnataka to provide Tamil Nadu with 12 thousand million cubic feet (t

Disregarding the directive of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC), Karnataka has stopped releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu.

The Supreme Court today made it clear that it will not interfere with the Cauvery Monitoring Committee’s order directing Karnataka to provide Tamil Nadu with 12 TMCft of Cauvery water during Decemb

Once the Union government publishes the award in gazette this month-end

The stage will be set for the constitution of a mechanism to implement the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal as soon as the Union government publishes the award in its gazette this month-end. The establishment of the implementation mechanism becomes crucial if the award, delivered by the Tribunal in February 2007, were to come into force from next water year, beginning June 2013.

Following the Supreme Court’s directive to Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from December 5 to 9, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has decided to take a delegation to Delhi

Hundreds of farmers staged protests in Karnataka’s Mandya district on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ordered the State to release water at the rate of 10,000 cusecs (cubic feet per second) to Ta