Rajya Raitha Sangha, Hasiru Sene observe black day

Hundreds of farmers were taken into custody by the police for staging a 'Jail Bharo' agitation demanding release of water to the Visvesvaraya Canal from Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) dam in Mandya on Tuesday. The protesters, under the banner of Raitha Sangha and ...

Cauvery Hithrakshana Samithi president G Madegowda, on Wednesday, said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah should immediately stop releasing water from the KRS dam to Tamil Nadu. He said this while addressing the protesters during an indefinite stir by Raitha Sangha ...

Activists of the Karnataka Janapara Vedike on Tuesday performed mock obsequies ceremony (thithi) of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Water Resources Minister M B Patil to vent their ire against the state government for its failure to respond to their demands.

Demands for release of water into canals has intensified with pro-Kannada organisations issuing suicide threats and planning a protest and Maddur bandh on July 27. "If the state government does not release water from KRS dam to Visvesvaraya Canal before July ...

Critic and thinker Prof Rajendra Chenni said that the government should immediately take strict legal action against those who provoke communal feelings. He was speaking at a harmony meet organised at Town Hall here on Monday. "All types of communalism are ...

After a lull of two years, machines started rolling, and crushing activities were launched at MySugar factory in Mandya on Wednesday. The reopening, however, was a low-key affair, as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will be officially inaugurating the factory on ...

Environmentalist Kalkuli Vittal Hegde on Tuesday urged the government to change the route identified to supply water from Tunga river to Bhadra dam through lift irrigation. The present route would impact 250 acres of forest area along with the villagers at ...

Sea erosion has intensified in coastal districts following heavy rain in the last few days. Huge waves have washed away a large chunk of land in Kuthpadi, Padukere, Malpe and Kaipunjalu of Udupi taluk. Roads have developed cracks in some areas and services of ...

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said BJP leader B S Yeddyurappa should now ask the Centre to waive farm loans obtained by farmers from nationalised banks. "Yeddyurappa had threatened me that he will demand loan waiver by grabbing my collar...Now, will ...