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Cauvery

(ˈkɔːvərɪ) or

Kaveri

n
(Placename) a river in S India, rising in the Western Ghats and flowing southeast to the Bay of Bengal. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
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Cau•ver•y

(ˈkɔ və ri)

also Kaveri



n.
a river in S India, flowing SE from the Western Ghats in Karnataka state through Tamil Nadu state to the Bay of Bengal: sacred to the Hindus. 475 mi. (765 km) long.
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Summary: Talacauvery (Karnataka) [India], Sept 2 (ANI): Isha Foundation founder Sadhguru will ride from Talacauvery starting on 3rd September traversing the Cauvery basin covering around 3500 km.
New Delhi The Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC), which held its first meeting on Thursday, directed the four member states -- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry -- to share their exact data on Cauvery water and the technology used to calculate this.
Karnataka would challenge in the Supreme Court the setting up of the Cauvery River Management Authority (CRMA) and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) by the central government as they were formed without consulting the state, a senior minister said yesterday.
Summary: The 67-year-old actor has often faced the wrath of pro-Kannada organisations for his comments on the Cauvery issue
But the raging dispute over sharing the water of River Cauvery, between two states in his own backyard should give him time to ponder over the unforeseen consequences of disturbing the IWT.
25 -- Apparently, the federal government led by Narendra Modi of BJP is not keen to see the orders of Supreme Court on Cauvery water dispute are implemented.
24 -- Nearly two centuries old Cauvery water disputes and the frequent agitations between the people of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are slowly but silently leading to a suicidal point of totally insufficient water even for drinking; because the river Cauvery is slowly drying up.
IN A tactical move, Karnataka, which is facing the Supreme Court's ire for refusing to implement its order, decided to release Cauvery water from KRS dam on Monday to save crops in the river basin.
by PTI A police personnel canes a motorcyclist during a curfew following violence in the city due to the Cauvery water sharing dispute with neighbouring state Tamil Nadu, in Bangalore on September 13, 2016.
Amid the ongoing protests in Karnataka over the sharing of Cauvery water with Tamil Nadu, External Affair Minister SM Krishna has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, asking him to immediately stop further release of water to the neighbouring state.
Ian Turton, from York, died after disappearing during an excursion on the Cauvery River near Bangalore.