Cauvery Water Board Order

Bengaluru Water Crisis: Amid an unprecedented water crisis in Bengaluru, the city water board has advised residents not to use Cauvery and borewell water for pool parties and rain dances to celebrate Holi.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has expressed the state's inability to release water to neighbouring Tamil Nadu as directed by the CWRC, saying it does not have adequate water in its Cauvery basin.

The centre on Friday constituted the Cauvery Water Management Authority in compliance with a Supreme Court order to address the water dispute involving the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

The central government was reprimanded by the Supreme Court today for ignoring its orders on the River Cauvery to set up a regulatory body to monitor the release of water to Tamil Nadu by Karnataka. Judges of the top court today suggested that the centre is acting in guile; "the centre knows what the scheme means", the judges said, as they ordered ...

The DMK-led opposition parties' bandh, demanding the establishment of Cauvery Management Board to ensure water for farmers as per the Supreme Court orders, began in Tamil Nadu today.

Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu, led by the DMK, have announced a state-wide shutdown on the Cauvery water issue. Congress, CPI(M) and CPI have also extended their support to the bandh. Their main demand is that the Cauvery Management Board should be set up immediately as ordered by the Supreme Court. They have accused the centre of delaying this ...

Tamil Nadu's main opposition party - the DMK - along with other parties like Congress, CPI(M) and CPI will hold a state-wide bandh or shutdown today. The reason behind the shutdown is the Cauvery water issue - a decades-old dispute between Tamil Nadu and its neighbouring state Karnataka. The DMK-led opposition parties are demanding that the Cauvery...

The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu would hold a day long hunger strike across to slam the Centre on its betrayal as they call it by not constituting the Cauvery Water Management Board (CMB).

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear Tamil Nadu's contempt petition against the centre for not forming the Cauvery Water Management Board on April 9. Advocate G Umapathy, appearing for the Tamil Nadu government, mentioned the matter for an early hearing. The Tamil Nadu government had asked Chief Justice Deepak Misra to take its petition tomorrow ...

Hundreds of people on Saturday gathered at theMarinabeachin Chennai and staged a flash protest urging the Centre to immediately set up the Cauvery Water Management Board in compliance with a February 16 Supreme Court order on the decades-old river water-sharing dispute.

Tamil Nadu chief minister E Palaniswami today decided to take the Central government to court for contempt after its failure to form the Cauvery Water Management Board, sources said. An order from the Supreme Court gave the Centre six weeks to form the Board. Instead, as the deadline expired today, the Centre decided to go back to the top court and...

After angry warnings from the Supreme Court including a reference to the impending "wrath of the law," Karnataka said today that it will follow orders to release water from the River Cauvery to neighbouring Tamil Nadu. But for now, it has to release 2,000 cusecs instead of the 6,000 cusecs a day that was ordered by the court earlier.

The Karnataka government will on Monday move a review petition in the Supreme Court against its three recent orders on the release of water from the Cauvery to Tamil Nadu and direction for the constitution of a Cauvery Water Management Board by the Centre.

Over-ruling Karnataka's objections, the Supreme Court today asked the state to release another 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water a day to Tamil Nadu for a week starting tomorrow. The state has called the order "wrong", contending it does not have enough water to drink. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said implementing the order will be "difficult...

Tamil Nadu on Wednesday urged the Centre to advise Karnataka not to take up any irrigation, hydro power projects, including the proposed Mekedatu drinking water project in Cauvery basin as it violates the final orders of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal and affects the interest of its farmers.

Bengaluru Water Crisis: Amid an unprecedented water crisis in Bengaluru, the city water board has advised residents not to use Cauvery and borewell water for pool parties and rain dances to celebrate Holi.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has expressed the state's inability to release water to neighbouring Tamil Nadu as directed by the CWRC, saying it does not have adequate water in its Cauvery basin.

The centre on Friday constituted the Cauvery Water Management Authority in compliance with a Supreme Court order to address the water dispute involving the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

The central government was reprimanded by the Supreme Court today for ignoring its orders on the River Cauvery to set up a regulatory body to monitor the release of water to Tamil Nadu by Karnataka. Judges of the top court today suggested that the centre is acting in guile; "the centre knows what the scheme means", the judges said, as they ordered ...

The DMK-led opposition parties' bandh, demanding the establishment of Cauvery Management Board to ensure water for farmers as per the Supreme Court orders, began in Tamil Nadu today.

Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu, led by the DMK, have announced a state-wide shutdown on the Cauvery water issue. Congress, CPI(M) and CPI have also extended their support to the bandh. Their main demand is that the Cauvery Management Board should be set up immediately as ordered by the Supreme Court. They have accused the centre of delaying this ...

Tamil Nadu's main opposition party - the DMK - along with other parties like Congress, CPI(M) and CPI will hold a state-wide bandh or shutdown today. The reason behind the shutdown is the Cauvery water issue - a decades-old dispute between Tamil Nadu and its neighbouring state Karnataka. The DMK-led opposition parties are demanding that the Cauvery...

The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu would hold a day long hunger strike across to slam the Centre on its betrayal as they call it by not constituting the Cauvery Water Management Board (CMB).

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear Tamil Nadu's contempt petition against the centre for not forming the Cauvery Water Management Board on April 9. Advocate G Umapathy, appearing for the Tamil Nadu government, mentioned the matter for an early hearing. The Tamil Nadu government had asked Chief Justice Deepak Misra to take its petition tomorrow ...

Hundreds of people on Saturday gathered at theMarinabeachin Chennai and staged a flash protest urging the Centre to immediately set up the Cauvery Water Management Board in compliance with a February 16 Supreme Court order on the decades-old river water-sharing dispute.

Tamil Nadu chief minister E Palaniswami today decided to take the Central government to court for contempt after its failure to form the Cauvery Water Management Board, sources said. An order from the Supreme Court gave the Centre six weeks to form the Board. Instead, as the deadline expired today, the Centre decided to go back to the top court and...

After angry warnings from the Supreme Court including a reference to the impending "wrath of the law," Karnataka said today that it will follow orders to release water from the River Cauvery to neighbouring Tamil Nadu. But for now, it has to release 2,000 cusecs instead of the 6,000 cusecs a day that was ordered by the court earlier.

The Karnataka government will on Monday move a review petition in the Supreme Court against its three recent orders on the release of water from the Cauvery to Tamil Nadu and direction for the constitution of a Cauvery Water Management Board by the Centre.

Over-ruling Karnataka's objections, the Supreme Court today asked the state to release another 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water a day to Tamil Nadu for a week starting tomorrow. The state has called the order "wrong", contending it does not have enough water to drink. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said implementing the order will be "difficult...

Tamil Nadu on Wednesday urged the Centre to advise Karnataka not to take up any irrigation, hydro power projects, including the proposed Mekedatu drinking water project in Cauvery basin as it violates the final orders of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal and affects the interest of its farmers.