Udupi :Former CM H D Kumaraswamy and Mandya MP Sumalatha are involved in an altercation over the KRS dam, but the government will not respond to it. Their act is not befitting their stature, said State Minister for Forest, Kannada and Culture Aravinda Limbavali. He was speaking to reporters in Udupi on July 10, Saturday […]

Mandya : The state government is prepared to impose a total ban on quarrying around the Krishnarajasagar dam in Srirangapatna taluk of Mandya district, Revenue Minister R Ashoka has said. “I have directed the Mines and Geology department to submit a report on the impact of quarrying on KRS dam. The future course of action […]

Udupi: “Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah doesn’t listen to anyone and Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalaitha is inflexible person. Here, there is no point asking PM Narendra Modi to intervene in the Cauvery river dispute. The case is in tribunal,” said Union Minister D V Sadananda Gowda. Speaking to the reporters on Sunday during his visit to Kadiyali […]

Mysore: The police resorted to lathicharge and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse protesters who broke the barricades and tried to enter the KRS dam area at Srirangapatna in Mandya district on Friday during the Karnataka bandh. Three farmers jumped into the Cauvery and another farmer tried to consume pesticide near the KRS dam during the bandh […]

Mandya: District in-charge Minister D K Shivakumar, on Monday, said that a decision on releasing water into canals from the KRS dam will be taken at a high-level meeting with the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the authorities concerned in Bengaluru on August 16. Addressing the media persons, after the Cauvery Irrigation Consultative Committee meeting at […]

Mysore: Baagina is a sacred offering to the river goddess as a thanksgiving gesture for bountiful rains. CM Siddaramaiah made the offering to river Cauvery at KRS dam but his wife Parvathi—who had earlier skipped his oath-taking ceremony—was absent this time too. According to a noted astrologer, any auspicious spiritual ritual, be it Yaaga, Lagna […]