Mangaluru : Senior Congress leader B. Janardhana Poojary on Saturday took strong exception to Health Minister U.T. Khader’s statement that Yettinahole project would be implemented at any cost, and warned that people have already decided to send home the leaders who have been supporting the controversial project. “The district has got united cutting across political […]
Mangaluru : Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, on Thursday, refused to set any deadline for the completion of the Yettinahole water diversion project and the consequent transfer of water to arid regions. Speaking to presspersons on his arrival for the one-day tour of Dakshina Kannada district at Mangaluru International Airport here, Mr. Siddaramaiah said the corporation announced […]
Mangaluru : As Chief Minister Siddaramaiah mentioned about constituting a corporation for implementing the Yettinahole and Upper Bhadra projects in his budget speech on Friday, green activists vented their anger here on the same night. They defaced the photographs of D.V. Sadananda Gowda, B. Ramanath Rai, K. Abhayachandra Jain and U.T. Khader in the banners […]
Mangaluru : Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha leader Vatal Nagaraj on Thursday ‘regretted’ his statement that the people in Dakshina Kannada had no humanity and said that he believed in oneness of Kannadigas. Mr. Nagaraj, who was here to address a media conference, was confronted by presspersons who sought a clarification on his statement made during […]
Mangaluru : Sahyadri Sanchaya, a green activists, Mangaluru, has said that Union Law Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda’s criticism of the protest by the people of Dakshina Kannada against the Yettinahole diversion project is an insult to the people of Tulu Nadu. Mr. Gowda had criticised the protest and green activists against the project at Puttur […]
Bantwal : Zilla Nethravathi Nadi Samrakshana Okkoota Chief Convener Dr Niranjan Rai alleged that Yettinahole project intends to empty the Nethravathi river and it is an anti-people project. He was speaking while taking part in a protest staged in front of the taluk office at B C Road by Samajika Nyayapara Horata Samithi on Tuesday. […]
Mangaluru : Netravathi Nadi Samrakshana Okkoota has decided to lay siege on Bantwal Taluk Office on December 15 as a mark of protest against the Yettinahole diversion project. Talking to reporters here on Friday, Niranjan Rai of the Okkoota said they were carrying out the protest demanding scrapping of the project that causes extensive harm […]
New Delhi : Dakshina Kannada MP from the BJP Nalin Kumar Kateel on Thursday urged the Centre not to approve the Yettinahole drinking water project at Sakleshpur, Hassan district in the State, as it harms the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats region. Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha, he said if the proposed project was […]
Mangaluru : Members of CPM Mangaluru Nagara Dakshina Samithi staged a protest, urging the government to take up development works including basic facilities, in front of the DC office in Mangaluru on Thursday. Addressing the protesters, CPM leader K R Sriyan said that the CPM had written to chief minister seeking answers for 19 burning […]
Udupi : Former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has demanded that the State government study the ground realities in the surrounding area of the proposed Yettinahole project. Speaking to mediapersons here on Wednesday, the BJP leader said that the fight opposing the project should convince the real problems of drinking water. “The issue should not […]
