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Heavy Rains and Floods Updates: Two IAF choppers deployed for rescue operations in Belagavi, nine dead in Karnataka
Fp Staff • 6 years agoHeavy Rains and Floods Updates: The Maharashtra district administration in Sangli said that nine people had died in the rescue boat capsizing accident while three were feared drowned.
Heavy rains and floods in Maharashtra: Red alert issued for Pune, Satara and Kolhapur; 9 feared dead in Sangli as rescue boat capsizes
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe Indian Meteorological Department has issued an 'extremely heavy rain' warning for Pune, Satara, and Kolhapur districts in Maharashtra on 7, 8 and 9 August.
Cauvery, a river under stress: In the rice bowl of Tamil Nadu, little water to spare
Anusha Sundar • 6 years agoThe eight Cauvery delta region districts contribute 45.4 percent of Tamil Nadu's total paddy production, with Thiruvarur and Thanjore contributing the highest (10.7 and 9.9 percent, respectively) — making them the chief rice suppliers to the state granaries
Cauvery dispute: Karnataka water minister DK Shivakumar writes to Tamil Nadu CM Palaniswami, seeks 'amicable solution'
• 6 years agoShivakumar urged Tamil Nadu to present the project details of the Cauvery river water and also hold a discussion on the same at a convenient time.
Cauvery in spate, inundates low-lying areas in Tamil Nadu; flood alert sounded in 11 districts
• 7 years agoSeveral low-lying areas were inundated along the banks of Cauvery river and its tributary Bhavani in various parts of Tamil Nadu on Thursday in view of discharge of 1.60 lakh cusecs of water from the Mettur dam following heavy inflows from Karnataka.
Flood alerts issued in 12 Tamil Nadu districts, after Stanley Reservoir in Mettur reaches capacity for first time in five years
Fp Staff • 7 years agoA flood warning was issued in Tamil Nadu after the Stanley Reservoir at Mettur achieved its full reservoir level (FRL) of 120 feet on Monday, for the first time in five years.
Flood alert issued for Cauvery banks in Salem district after Karnataka releases river water; contact 1077 for emergencies
• 7 years agoResidents living on the banks have been asked to move to safer places as the river is expected to be in spate due to heavy inflow from Karnataka.
Tamil Nadu govt rules out opening Mettur Dam for farmers along Cauvery delta, announces agricultural subsidies instead
• 7 years agoTamil Nadu government refused to open the Mettur Dam gates on the scheduled day due to storage issues but, has offered to give the farmers on Cauvery subsidies to grow paddy
K Palaniswami announces Rs 115-cr package for farmers, says no water will be released from Mettur Dam for 'kuruvai' cultivation
• 7 years agoThe TN government expressed its inability to release water from Mettur dam for 'kuruvai' cultivation, but announced a Rs 115 crore package to help farmers
Cauvery issue: Group stages flash protest at Marina beach, urges Centre to set up water management board
• 7 years agoA group of individuals converged at the Marina beach in 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.