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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=+Supreme+Court&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Supreme Court</a> has ordered<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=+Karnataka&amp;sortorder=effectivedate"> Karnataka</a> to stop defying its orders and also asked the state to confirm if it has released water from the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=River+Cauvery+&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">River Cauvery </a>to<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=+Tamil+Nadu&amp;sortorder=effectivedate"> Tamil Nadu</a>, by tomorrow. 
 All the attempts made by the <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> to broker a truce in the dispute over the <keyword id="629125" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="river-Cauvery">River Cauvery</keyword> have been ignored so far. <keyword id="6354780" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="Karnataka">Karnataka</keyword> still is holding the water back which it was ordered to share with <keyword id="20154" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="tamil-nadu">Tamil Nadu</keyword>. The centre has also refused to create a new committee to examine the crisis, telling judges that parliament alone has the authority to create such an agency. 
 
Tamil Nadu has been asking for more water for it its farmers from past one month. Supreme Court finally intervened and ruled in the favor of Tamil Nadu. Karnataka then obliged reluctantly, with riots across the state including in the capital of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Bengaluru&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Bengaluru</a>. After that, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that given that his own cities are nearly running dry, neighbor Tamil Nadu must wait till November for any more water. 
 Things didn’t go well as Supreme Court expected them to go. The orders were defied by Karnataka and Supreme Court has chastised Karnataka for defying its orders, including at today’s hearing. The judges were also taken aback by the centre stating that it cannot create the <keyword id="3669434" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="cauvery-water-management-board">Cauvery Water Management Board</keyword>, as ordered last week. 
 
"It was a mistake," the centre admitted to judges who pointed out that at the last hearing, the government had agreed to setting up the agency. Only parliament can authorize the board, said the government's lawyers. 
 
The court has asked the members of the board to visit Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and examine the situation and also listen to problems both sides claim to face. 
 A tribunal created earlier by the Supreme Court had decided in 2007 on how River <keyword id="6354543" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Cauvery">Cauvery</keyword> water should be allocated, but the verdict has been challenged by all states involved. 
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SC warns Karnataka over defying orders, seeks status on water release from Cauvery river to Tamil Nadu

If you admire modern age engineering marvels, a look at history will leave you spellbound. Our great rulers always had a vision for future and it shows in the structures they built us, which are still useful for the mankind. 
 One of the structures is <keyword id="870589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kallanai-dam">Kallanai Dam</keyword>, or the <keyword id="2978336" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Grand-Anicut">Grand Anicut</keyword>, which will amuse you. 
 
The dam was built in first century by the then Chola King Karikalan. It is one of the oldest water-diversion or water regulating structures in the world, which is still standing tall and in amazing condition. 
 
READ ALSO: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Pamban-Bridge-in-Rameswaram-is-an-engineering-marvel-Here-are-5-quick-facts-about-Indias-first-Cantilever-bridge/articleshow/53284383.cms">Pamban Bridge in Rameswaram is an engineering marvel. Here are 5 quick facts about India’s first Cantilever bridge</a> 
 
The dam is important for irrigation in the Cauvery delta. Kallanai Dam is not only a tourist attraction, but this dam across the Cauvery River in Tamil Nadu is also a lesson for historians and engineering experts. 
 
The main function of this dam was to keep the water supply in the Cauvery and its branches and pass on the surplus into Coleroon through the Ullar River. 
 
READ ALSO: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/This-Janjira-Fort-just-two-hours-away-from-Mumbai-is-one-of-the-strongest-sea-forts-in-India/articleshow/53337793.cms">This Janjira Fort, just two hours away from Mumbai, is one of the strongest sea forts in India</a> 
 
You can reach Kallanai dam from Tiruchirappalli, which is just 19 kilometres away. The nearest airport is Tiruchirapalli airport. 
 
Here are the other fascinating details about the Kallanai Dam

This First Century dam in India is one of the oldest in the world and is still standing strong

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 <keyword id="6354780" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="Karnataka">Karnataka</keyword> is going through a rough phase. There has been curfew, deaths, protests and crores of rupees loss of public property over last 24 hours. 
 
It’s been more than hundred years and yet the distribution of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-Drought-Series-Nearly-3-1-crore-people-in-Karnataka-are-hit-by-the-drought-and-migration-is-intensifying/articleshow/51979749.cms">Cauvery River’s</a> water is in a mess. Given the present situations, it’s far from getting resolved. It’s not the first time that two states are fighting over a river. The history has seen it all. The war of water between <keyword id="6354759" type="COUNTRY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</keyword> and <keyword id="6357783" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="West-Bengal">West Bengal</keyword> over Farakka barrage and now the <keyword id="763269" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Teesta-river">Teesta River</keyword> and the Punjab- <keyword id="41646" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Haryana">Haryana</keyword> conflict over Sutlej-Yamuna link are similar in nature as the <keyword id="6354543" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cauvery">Cauvery</keyword> issue.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-Drought-Series-Nearly-3-1-crore-people-in-Karnataka-are-hit-by-the-drought-and-migration-is-intensifying/articleshow/51979749.cms"> Agriculture</a> of both Karnataka and <keyword id="20154" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="tamil-nadu">Tamil Nadu</keyword> are dependent on the river that originates at <keyword id="65856" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kodagu">Kodagu</keyword> in Karnataka and flows for 765 km before meeting the <keyword id="55869" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bay-of-Bengal">Bay of Bengal</keyword> in Tamil Nadu. The strategic course that the river takes during its flow has made it a villain for many years on the distribution of water issue. 
 
Current scenario If Karnataka decides to distribute water to Tamil Nadu as per their demand, the former wont have much left. According to the data provided by <keyword id="6357283" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Central-Water-Commission">Central Water Commission</keyword> (<keyword id="54702" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="CWC">CWC</keyword>), Karnataka’s reservoirs this year were 30% below the normal water level compared to Tamil Nadu’s shortage of 49%. 
 The main reservoirs in the two states’ catchment areas include <keyword id="864488" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Krishna-Raja-Sagara">Krishna Raja Sagara</keyword> dam in <keyword id="6355147" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mandya">Mandya</keyword> district, <keyword id="891106" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kabini">Kabini</keyword> in Mysore, Harangi in Kodagu and <keyword id="279522" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hemavathi">Hemavathi</keyword> in Hassan; Mettur dam in <keyword id="6357470" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Salem">Salem</keyword> and <keyword id="3003304" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bhavanisagar-dam">Bhavanisagar Dam</keyword> in Erode. All these reservoirs have reportedly 46% less water than normal and 27% lesser water than last year. In short, the situation is quite grim for both states, as per the CWC report. 
 
A third party needs to intervene 
No matter how much these two states fight, there would be no solid solution ever. There needs to be a third party intervention to resolve this issue. A third party can solve things like nobody else. A good example of third party intervention can be the Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan. This was brokered by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-Drought-Series-Nearly-3-1-crore-people-in-Karnataka-are-hit-by-the-drought-and-migration-is-intensifying/articleshow/51979749.cms">World Bank</a>, which was signed on September 19, 1960 by Indian Prime Minister <keyword id="6360386" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jawaharlal-Nehru">Jawaharlal Nehru</keyword> and President of Pakistan <keyword id="27721" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="ayub-khan">Ayub Khan</keyword>. 
 
Since the ratification of the treaty in 1960, India and Pakistan have not engaged in any water wars. Most disagreements and disputes have been settled via legal procedures, provided for within the framework of the treaty. The treaty is considered to be one of the most successful water-sharing endeavours in the world today even though analysts acknowledge the need to update certain technical specifications and expand the scope of the document to include climate change. As per the provisions in the treaty, India can use only 20% of the total water carried by the Indus River. 
 
Weapon of politics 
As things get murkier the in Karnataka, it’s a hint that the issue wouldn’t get settled as easily as expected. When a crisis becomes a weapon of politics, it is no longer an issue to be solved. Rather it becomes more of a chance for the political parties to milk the situation. In this political game, the crisis has surpassed the actual need of water, the need of the agriculture and become a war of egos between the two states. It’s a motive of victory than a solution that matters to the common people caught in the crossfire. The threat of not sharing a drop of water would gain more brownies for the parties in both the states rather than finding a lighted avenue to the dead end. 
 
It’s a murderous rage 
If media reports are to be believed, Tamil channels and movies have been unofficially banned in Karnataka. This gives proof to the fact that the fight over Cauvery’s water has actually delineated to become a war between two states. Even if the situation can be solved by the two ruling parties of the states through dialogue, there is no indication for the public rage incited by these parties subsiding anytime soon. 
 
Where lies the solution? <keyword id="2262165" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sanjeev-Kumar-Balyan">Sanjeev Kumar Balyan</keyword>, Minister of State for <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-Drought-Series-Nearly-3-1-crore-people-in-Karnataka-are-hit-by-the-drought-and-migration-is-intensifying/articleshow/51979749.cms">Water Resources</a> has proposed that issue of river water distribution needs to be scrapped from the State list of constitution and added to the Concurrent List so that the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-Drought-Series-Nearly-3-1-crore-people-in-Karnataka-are-hit-by-the-drought-and-migration-is-intensifying/articleshow/51979749.cms">Centre </a>has its say as well. 
 The <keyword id="155317" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Republican">republican</keyword> set up of India has often been blamed for the centre hijacking power from the states to use it to dictate its own benefit. That is definitely something not so praiseworthy. However in the water distribution issue, the centre needs to have a say. 
 
The Cauvery issue keeps on recurring. 70 odd years have passed and the states couldn’t come up with a solution. Both the states are well aware of the fact that being adamant and sticking to illogical reasoning wouldn’t fetch any result. But for the game to be played in a gentleman’s way, the rules call for a quick change of perspective.

Hey Karnataka, why so angry?

A 22-year-old woman who cops are suspecting may have instigated the arson attack on 42 buses of a Tamil Nadu-based operator in Bengaluru last week, was allegedly offered Rs 100 and a plate of biryani to join the Cauvery water-sharing protests. 
 
C Bhagya emerged in the CCTV footage from the yard where the buses were parked as well as in the mobile phone videos filmed by the crew. 
 
Bhagya stays with her parents in Girinagar, close to the KPN garage, and is a daily wager. Her mother Yellamma revealed that her daughter had just returned home around noon (on September 12) when some men known to her came over and asked her to join the protests. “They promised to give her a plate of mutton biryani and Rs 100 at the end of the day,” she said. 
 
Meanwhile, police sources said the footage from the arson site also shows other women, but it is not clear if they played an active role in the vandalism. For Bhagya, they are almost certain. She is the only woman among the 400-odd people arrested in connection with the September 12 violence in Bengaluru. 
 
Bhagya is currently in police custody for further questioning.

When Bengaluru protested over Cauvery water, this woman set 42 buses on fire just for a plate of mutton biryani and Rs 100

New Delhi, Nov 15 () The Habitats Trust, co-founded by HCL Corporation CEO Roshni Nadar Malhotra, has announced grants totalling Rs 84 lakh to organisations working on environment conservation.
 The Habitats Trust awarded full financial grants worth Rs 60 lakh to four recipients across four categories. It also awarded 10 per cent of the grant amount in the respective categories to the nine finalists to ensure that their effort and work is recognised.
 "Every conservationist who applied for The Habitats Trust Grants is engaged in doing crucial work towards protecting our natural habitats and species. Each of them is deserving of support and it wasn't easy for us to choose the final recipients," The Habitats Trust founder and Trustee Roshni Nadar Malhotra said.
 The 13 finalists and eventually four winners were selected through a rigorous three-stage process that considered the expected impact, relevance, scalability of the project, the applicants' capacity to deliver as well as sustainability of their proposed work with a duration of approximately a year.
 The Trust received 860 registrations this year and chose 13 finalists from that pool after conducting field visits and due diligence by an external auditor.
 Aaranyak - which is working to secure and recover Manas grasslands in Assam and its threatened species - received a grant of Rs 25 lakh, while Costal Impact that is working on coral transplantation aids for preservation of coral patches off Goa was given Rs 20 lakh.
 Metastring Foundation, a citizen-based conservation initiative of the Malabar Tree Toad, received Rs 15 lakh, and Neethi Mahesh got Rs 10 lakh for her efforts on Riparian habitat conservation along the Cauvery River in Coorg District. SR RUJ
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