Siddaramaiah requests Shinde to release water from Maharashtra dams to meet Karnataka's drinking water needsChief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday wrote to his Maharashtra counterpart Eknath Shinde requesting him to release water from Warna/Koyn...
Siddaramaiah requests Shinde govt to release Ujjani and Koyna Reservoir water to meet drinking needs of Northern KarnatakaThe letter demands the concerned authorities to immediately release 2.00 TMC of water from Warna/Koyna reservoir to Krishna river and 3.00 ...
Maharashtra cabinet clears proposals of home loan for police, speeding up Nagpur Metro projectThe state has sanctioned Rs 622 crore interest free loan for the Nagpur Metro phase-1 project and also approved the land transfer proposal,...
Rivers on a swell in Karnataka following massive downpourKrishna, Bhadra, Tunga, Bhima, Ghataprabha, Malaprabha, Markandeya Hiranyakeshi and several other small rivers and rivulets are "swollen an...
Karnataka, Maharashtra agree to resolve water sharing issuesChief Minister B S Yediyurappa and state Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai held a high level meeting with Maharashtra Water Resource Minister ...
Flood situation remains grim in North Karnataka, over 35,000 people evacuatedKarnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) officials said as many as 97 villages in the four districts are worst affected ...
Flood situation grim in parts of Telangana and KarnatakaHyderabad has witnessed one of the worst deluges in recent times following unprecedented downpour in over a century early this week, with a...
Army pressed into service in 4 flood-hit Karnataka districts; CM to undertake aerial surveyChief Minister B S Yediyurappa said many villages in Kalaburagi, Vijayapura, Yadgir and Raichur districts were either completely or partial...
Flood situation grim in Karnataka with heavy rains, release of water from damsAccording to the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Management Centre, the floodgates of all the major dams have been opened resulting in wat...
After last year’s violence: Police on standby in Bhima KoregaonThis time though, the state government has kept police forces on stand by and also barred many from entering Pune to prevent a repeat of la...
Battle over a 200-year-old battle: Was Bhima Koregaon really a Brahmin-Dalit tussle?Many Dalits have come to view the battle as not one between the British and the natives but between upper-caste Peshwas and lower-caste Mah...
91 major water reservoirs level below 15%Seven reservoirs, most of them in Maharashtra, do not have water, the commission said, adding that the scenario was improving with the onse...
Water in major reservoirs at less than 15% of combined capacityMonsoon arrived at India's southern Kerala coast on June 8, a day later than forecast, but the weather office expects rains to pick up in J...
Water in major reservoirs at less than 17 per cent of combined capacityThe total capacity of the country’s reservoirs is 253.388 bcm and the capacity is being augmented with 80 projects underway.
Pre-monsoon showers fail to improve water levels in main reservoirsThe 91 major reservoirs that the Central Water Commission regularly monitors held 26.82 billion cubic metres of water, well short of the 10...
Experts say timely pre-monsoon rainfall needed to boost water levelIndia's major reservoirs had water only up to a fifth of their capacity this week, lower than a year earlier as well as the 10-year average.
- Maintain natural flow of rivers: Experts
The natural flow of water should be maintained to reduce pollution of rivers, experts said here on Tuesday.