Tag: Cauvery dispute

TN auto driver commits suicide over Cauvery dispute

M. Prabhu, a 38-year-old autorickshaw driver in Tamil Nadu, died on Wednesday after consuming rat poison over escalating tensions over the Cauvery waters, police said. Prabhu, a resident of Annadhanapatti near Salem, took the poison on March 31. “He is said to be a DMK sympathizer,” a police official in Salem told IANS over telephone....

April 4, 2018

Cauvery dispute: SC agrees to hear TN’s petition on CMB, DMK protests continue

Led by main opposition party, Dravida Munnetra Kazagham (DMK), the protesters reportedly blocked roads in Chennai. Among the protesters were farmers and members of other fringe outfits.

April 2, 2018

AIADMK MP defends suicide remark over Cauvery dispute

“I reflect the mood, the mental and economic condition of farmers of Tamil Nadu,” the MP said.

March 29, 2018

Supreme Court likely to pronounce Cauvery verdict today

The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce today its verdict on the decades-old Cauvery water dispute between riparian south Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud had on September 20 last year reserved the verdict on the appeals...

February 16, 2018