Chief Ministers Shettar and Jayalalithaa fail to break the deadlock over water-sharing

Talks between chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on Cauvery water sharing row, held at the suggestion of the Supreme Court, today failed to break the ice with both sides sticking to their

The Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Jayalalithaa and Jagadish Shettar, will meet in Bangalore on Thursday to discuss sharing the available waters in the reservoirs across the Cauvery r

In a bid to find a permanent solution to the Cauvery water sharing dispute, the Supreme Court on Monday asked Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to work towards an amicable solution.

The Supreme Court on Monday urged the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to meet and have a “meaningful dialogue” in order to find an “amicable” solution to the Cauvery water dispute.

The Supreme Court on Monday requested the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to hold talks along with experts to find an amicable solution to the vexed dispute over sharing of Cauvery rive

Moves fresh petition in Supreme Court for direction to neighbouring State

Tamil Nadu on Thursday filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court for a direction to Karnataka to release 52.8 tmcft of water till February 2013 to save crops raised on 15 lakh acres. The State also wanted the court to properly define the ‘season’ to ensure that adequate water was released to protect the interests of farmers.

The Karnataka Government on Friday maintained that the ruling of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee’s (CMC) asking Karnataka to release 4.8 tmc of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu within 15 days was unsci

Centre urged to ensure 40 tmcft water from Karnataka

With a prolonged dry spell in the past fortnight after the lashing that the Nilam cyclone has inflicted, the delta farmers are once again at the mercy of Rain God. Only a few spells of moderate rain in the next few weeks supplemented by supply from the Mettur dam can save the standing samba crops in lakhs of acres, asserts Mannargudi S. Ranganathan, general secretary of the Cauvery Delta Farmers’ Welfare Association.

The Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC) met on Thursday and asked Karnataka to release a further 4.81 tmcft of river water to Tamil Nadu at Biligundlu within the next 15 days. It, however, did not decide the quantum of shortfall in releases during the season, which as per the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal’s interim award, Karnataka must make up by the end of the season.

Tamil Nadu maintained that there was a shortfall of 52 tmcft between June and September and wanted Karnataka to make up for that. Karnataka, however, contested this.