Cauvery crisis: Bengaluru wary but remains peaceful

BENGALURU: Tuesday dawned on Bengaluru with a sense of foreboding, with the Supreme Court slated to take up the Cauvery river water dispute later in the day. Huge contingents of policemen, paramilitary forces and Rapid Action Force stationed at sensitive spots across the city did not help settle the uneasy calm that prevailed.

City police said everything was under control and they were ready for the worst, wiser in the wake of the September 12 violence. Police sources said they had asked banks in the northwest and western pockets of the city to try and complete cheque transactions by 1pm. School managements had issued a set of guidelines to allow children to go home early, in case of any violence or rumours of the same.


Source:-TOI
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Cauvery fallout: Lack of cross-border transport increase worker's woes

BENGALURU | CHENNAI: Thousands of employees working in the industrial suburbs of the Electronics City and Bommanahalli and on other campuses such as Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bengaluru are struggling without interstate public transport regardless of statements of normality by government authorities.

An estimated 15,000 people working in Bengaluru's industrial suburbs live in Hosur and its suburbs because either they have home there or for reasons of living expenses. Electronics City alone employs 1.5 lakh people across segments. "The situation at the Attibele border appears as tense as it is at the India-Pakistan border," said an IT professional working in the Electronics City .



Source:-economictimes
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Cauvery Row: Anger In Bengaluru, Vehicles Told Not To Go To Tamil Nadu

BENGALURU:  In the Cauvery water dispute, massive protests erupted in Karnataka on Monday, especially on the streets of Bengaluru and Mysuru, as a modified Supreme Court order meant the state has to release more water to neighbour Tamil Nadu.
Here are 10 developments in the story:
1-On Karnataka's petition, the court modified an earlier order and said the state has to release less river water to Tamil Nadu but for five more days. Karnataka, which will end up giving more water after the modified order, urged the court to reconsider but its request was rejected.
2-In Bengaluru and Mysuru, shops and vehicles of Tamil Nadu were attacked and set on fire.
3-Karnataka has stopped bus services to Tamil Nadu and police jeeps were positioned along the border to warn vehicles against entering that state.
4-Schools and colleges were closed early in Bengaluru and metro services have been stopped as a precaution.
5-In Chennai, a hotel owned by a Karnataka company was vandalized by a fringe group. The attackers broke into the New Woodlands hotel early this morning, broke glasses and window panes. 6-They allegedly also threw a petrol bomb and left pamphlets warning of retaliation if Tamils were targeted in Karnataka.
7-Four members of the group have been arrested. At least 10 people were involved in the attack, the police say.
8-Five tourist vehicles from Karnataka, including two buses, were vandalized in Rameswaram in southern Tamil Nadu.
9-Over the weekend, a young man - reported to be Tamil - was attacked and humiliated in Bengaluru by a group allegedly over his comments on social media on the Cauvery dispute. In a video of the attack that went viral, the engineering student was slapped and kicked by the men. The police suspect he was attacked after his post on Facebook mocking Kannada actors was widely circulated.
The protests began after Karnataka was asked last week by the Supreme Court to release 15,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu daily from the river Cauvery, which flows through both states.
10-On Monday the Supreme Court, responding to Karnataka's petition that it would not be able to release that much water, modified its order.

Source:-ndtv
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Karnataka Bandh Shuts Down Bengaluru, All IT Firms Take Day Off: 10 Facts

Here are the top 10 updates in this big story:

  1- In Bengaluru -- which solely depends on the Cauvery River for drinking water for its 10 million citizens -- the IT industry, comprising software majors like Infosys and Wipro and about 400 multinationals, has declared a holiday. The infamous city traffic is off the roads but there are protests at junctions across the city.
  2-  Government schools and colleges are closed to prevent inconvenience to students and teachers. Though government offices are open, attendance is thin because of the absence of public transport.
  3-  The Bengaluru Metro is not running on Friday morning. There are no airport taxis on the deserted roads of the city and and local television channels showed an auto rickshaw driver being beaten this morning for bringing his vehicle out.
  4-  The government has said that essential supplies like milk and hospitals will be unaffected. But chemists are expected to be closed as are banks and restaurants. The Karnataka film industry has said it will not work today.
  5-  People have been advised not to enter Karnataka in vehicles with Tamil Nadu registration numbers, with protesters stationing themselves at the border between the two states.
  6-  The protests started in Karnataka's Mandya district on Monday after the Supreme Court ordered the state to release 15,000 cusecs of water from the river Cauvery to Tamil Nadu for the next 10 days.
  7-  While the protest has its epicentre in Mandya, a huge section of the population is voluntarily supporting the shutdown called by pro-Karnataka parties.
  8-  Karnataka says it does not have enough water for drinking or irrigation. The level of water in four of the state's reservoirs on the Cauvery is lower than usual. Farmers had not been getting water from the dams - release of water for them started only on Thursday.
  9-  The Congress government in the state has appealed for peace, but will not be unhappy at a message being sent out over the release of water. The opposition BJP is also supporting the bandh and its leaders will hold protests today.
  10-  Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda of the JD(S) will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday to discuss the issue and explain Karnataka's point of view.

Source:-ndtv
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