Kuruvai cultivation: Jayalalithaa hits out at Karunanidhis rem...

Farm workers involved in preparatory works for the Kuruvai crop in Thanjavur district | Express With the government announcement of 12 hours assured three-phase power to Cauvery delta farmers, a tentative 15,000 hectares has been fixed as target ...

Chennai, Jun 11 (PTI) DMK Chief M Karunanidhi today said the prospects of ensuing 'kuruvai' (short-term crop) looked bleak in Tamil Nadu in the backdrop of drought in the Cauvery delta and sought to know what steps government proposed to take to ...

"There is only 3.45 TMC of water in Mettur dam and based on rainfall received in Cauvery delta region, steps will be taken for cultivating kuruvai crop" CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha today hit out at DMK chief M Karunanidhi on his demand to ...

While announcing sops for farmers to take up Kuruvai crop cultivation in view of the poor storage in the Mettur Dam, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today said contempt of court proceedings would be initiated against the Karnataka government on the ...

The short-term kuruvai crop will be given a miss this year too with the supervisory panel set up to look into the implementation of final award of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal rejecting the Tamil Nadu governments demand for water from Karnataka reservoirs.

Irrigation managers and agriculture officials are debating the exact extent on which farmers can take up cultivation of the short-term kuruvai crop this year under adverse conditions. Going by data for the last 10 years and observations of officials of the ...

Kuruvai will be raised on 6,000 hectares of land in Tiruchi district, Joint Director of Agriculture J. Sekar said at the agriculturists grievances meeting in Tiruchi on Friday. For this...

Chennai, June 14 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa Friday announced that the state government would soon approach the Supreme Court with a contempt of court petition against Karnataka and another petition to direct the central government to set ...

Upping the ante against Karnataka for its refusal to release Cauvery water, Tamil Nadu has decided to file a contempt petition in Supreme Court besides seeking a direction for setting up two regulatory bodies to implement the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal's final award. Slamming the stand of Karnataka that the Supervisory Committee on Cauvery was not properly formed and it cannot take any decisions, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said, "this amounts to contempt of court". The decision to approach ...