The intense and widespread rain over the southern peninsula in March is the highest rainfall recorded in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu since 1875.

With Tamil Nadu's Hogenakkal project on its border with Karnataka becoming a major political controversy between the two States, the former Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M.

The latest spark in the tenuous ties between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, already at war over the sharing of the Cauvery waters, is a proposal resurrected from the archives by Tamil Nadu chief minister M

THE UPA government is faced with the task of reconciling its own interests in poll-bound Karnataka and that of the DMK regime in Tamil Nadu on the Hogenakkal falls issue.

With Election Commission announcing dates for the Karnataka assembly polls, the latest water dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over the Hogenakkal drinking water supply project is in danger of taking a serious turn. A large number of policemen stood guard in Hosur town bordering Karnataka even as buses between the two states did not ply fearing attacks by protesters.

Chief Secretary L.K.

Even as the Tamil Nadu Assembly adopted a resolution urging the Union Government to come forward to safeguard the rights of the people of the State, various Kannada organisations gave a call for a Kar

THE Japanese-funded Hogenakkal water project is becoming mired in needless controversy.