Beach at the Cauvery this summer

Picnics are ending up in tragedies. The beautiful fall of water from the horseshoe-shaped bund across River Cauvery at Balmuri is not as calm as it looks. It is proving fatal due to the callousness of youngsters who are recklessly ignoring the warnings.

Law Minister T B Jayachandra said on Thursday that a committee of legal experts was likely to be formed to look into the pros and cons of the Supreme Court judgements on the Cauvery river dispute with Tamil Nadu. Speaking to reporters, Jayachandra said his ...

l. Solid-waste management authority. l. Mini Lalbaghs around the city. l. Mayor to get five-year tenure (against one year of current term). l. Four satellite towns around city. l. Discount on water bill for people who recycle water. Helicopter ...

Apart from several towns and villages in the Cauvery Basin, two major cities, Bangalore and Mysore are dependent on two major rivers of the basin for drinking and domestic use. The rivers, Cauvery and Kabini, already parched due to a pervading drought and ...

Bangalore: There are less than nine days to go for the Karnataka elections. CNN-IBN's Karnataka Yatra reaches Bangalore, looking at the water politics in the state. Midway between Mysore and Bangalore is the epicentre of politics over the Cauvery ...

The Supreme Court on Monday favoured putting in place some "ad hoc mechanism" for monitoring the implementation of the order on distribution of Cauvery waters among Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and others. "Some mechanism, which is absolutely ad hoc, is to be put in ...

The strategy adopted by the State government on the Cauvery water issue has paid rich dividends not only in the form of publication of the final order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal in the Union government's gazette but also realisation of ...

With the ground water table depleting rapidly in view of the drought like conditions, Tiruchi Corporation has just begun to dig additional borewells on the river bed. Next summer, it will most likely be spared of the trouble. Just a few metres ...

Farmers of Karnataka will be affected with the constitution of Cauvery Management Board (CMB) to implement the final Order of the Cauvery Tribunal on sharing of Cauvery water, said former prime minister H D Deve Gowda. Speaking to mediapersons during his ...