Amid rising temperatures and a delayed monsoon, Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka D.K. Shivakumar urged the Tamil Nadu government to show magnanimity over the contentious Mekedaatu project and cooperate for the benefit of farmers of both states. He emphasized that it was time for both states...
The Mangaluru district administration has announced a 61 days monsoon fishing ban between June 1 and July 31. All mechanized boats with onboard and outboard engines above 10 HP have already begun being hauled up in Mangaluru and along the coast. All mechanized and deep-sea fishing activities...
In some ways, the recently concluded Karnataka elections are a return to the state’s history of a multi-cultural society with distinct regions and caste equations. The BJP had tried to push Karnataka society towards uniformity and unipolarity but it has been defeated squarely. Unlike Karnataka,...
Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai after being appointed as the co-president of Karnataka BJP in poll-bound Karnataka, is making his presence felt in the state too. Annamalai has written to the Chief Justice of Tamil Nadu, Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari, apprising him of the events that led...
Forest officials protecting the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border region have long forgotten the Veerappan era. But can they be so complacent as to allow minor poachers to grow into brigands that are difficult to deal with? A case in point is that of Karavadaiyan alias Raja, a 40-year-old suspected...
Consider this scenario: The Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) reservoir built across the Cauvery river in Mandya district has only 97.91 feet of water against the usual level of 121 feet when the flow of Cauvery trickles down to a few hundred cusecs per day in December against a lakh and more cusecs...
A bountiful monsoon resulting in with brimming rivers has underscored Tamil Nadu’s inadequate storage on the Cauvery. Following copious rains in Karnataka, the Stanley reservoir at Mettur dam is releasing 25,500 cusecs into the river course. It would have been a happy situation for Tamil Nadu...
Animal carcass formed by wildlife that dies in the deep forests of Karnataka due to natural causes or in fights for territory will now rest there. Those that die closer to human habitations in the fringe areas of the forests will get dignified last rites in the form of a burial or cremation....
18 years after elephant poacher Veerappan was killed in an encounter with the Karnataka STF, the poaching of elephants and illegal tusk trade continues unabated by Tamil Nadu-based poachers. In many instances, these smugglers are now being caught in Karnataka and Kerala. In the last 45 days...
With the copious rains that Karnataka has received in July so far, particularly in the Cauvery basin of the state, Tamil Nadu might be in for good times on water availability. With the long-term predictions of the IMD for a good north-easterly monsoon also in September in Tamil Nadu, the state...
