Artificial rain in Cauvery catchment area to increase inflow into 4 dams

The Cauvery water-sharing crisis has prompted the Karnataka government to go for cloud seeding in the catchment areas of the river to increase the inflow of water into its reservoirs. Water Resources Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday said the tendering process would be completed shortly and the cloud seeding operation would be taken up in a week’s time.

The Cauvery agitation did not take a breather even on Gandhi Jayanti.

As protesters blocked the Mysore-Bangalore alternative route via Malavalli and Kanakapura, traffic between the state capital and the royal city was also affected on Tuesday. Though Mandya and its taluks were fully affected by the two-day-old protests and road blocks against the release of water from the Krishnarajasagar (KRS) reservoir, launched by the Cauvery Rytha Hitarakshana Samithi, those travelling by road between Mysore and Bangalore chose the alternative Malavalli-Kanakapura route

Falling in line with the Supreme Court directive, Karnataka on Sunday began releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, setting off a wave of protests against it in the river basin districts.

MANDYA/BANGALORE, 30 SEPT: Falling in line with the Supreme Court directive, Karnataka today began releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, setting off a wave of protests against it in the river basi

Expressing its displeasure over Karnataka walking out of the meeting of the Prime Minister-headed Cauvery River Authority and refusing to comply with its mandate, the Supreme Court on Friday ordere

Unhappy that it didn’t obey PM’s order on Cauvery water release

The Supreme Court on Friday expressed its displeasure over Karnataka not complying with a direction issued by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, heading the Cauvery River Authority (CRA), to release 9,000 cusecs of Cauvery water daily to Tamil Nadu from September 20 to October 15. A Bench comprising Justice D.K. Jain and Justice Madan B. Lokur told counsel V.N. Raghupathy, appearing for Karnataka: “This is an order passed by the Prime Minister. But you don’t want to comply

The Supreme Court Thursday rejected Tamil Nadu’s plea — filed after failed Cauvery River Authority meeting on water sharing — for an urgent hearing on its demand for 2 TMC ft water from Karnataka.

“Due to failure of monsoon, drought had been severe affecting agriculture”

Karnataka farmers have moved the Supreme Court challenging the direction given to the State by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as the head of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA), to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from September 20 to October 15. Suresh and three other farmers have, in a writ petition, said that this year due to failure of monsoon to the extent of 40 per cent, drought had been severe affecting half of the agricultural operations in the Cauvery basin of Karnataka.

The Cauvery water dispute is back in the news after the main co-basin states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka rejecting the verdict given by the prime minister at the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) meeti

Five days after the meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) for an amicable water-sharing formula ended without a solution, the Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday filed a fresh application in th