No option but to release water: CM

September 7, 2016

Bengaluru, Sep 7: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said the state government had no option but to abide by the direction of the Supreme Court to release Cauvery River water to Tamil Nadu. However, he did not specify from when the water will be released.

“Despite severe hardship due to paucity of rains, Karnataka will abide by the court’s order. At the same time, the state government will file a petition before the court seeking modification of its order of September 5,” Siddaramaiah told reporters after an all-party meeting in Bengaluru.

The all-party meeting had been convened to decide the government’s next course of action in the wake of the Supreme Court directing Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs of River Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu for the next 10 days. Siddaramaiah said the state will also approach the supervisory committee constituted to give effect to the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal with ground realities in the river basin.

“In our constitutional set-up, it is difficult to defy an order of the Supreme Court. We will release water. But we will also ensure adequate drinking water to habitations in the Cauvery basin. A sincere attempt will be made to provide water to standing crops of our farmers,”?Siddaramaiah said.

He said the state legal team on?Cauvery issue headed by senior counsel Fali?S?Nariman had submitted before the Supreme Court that despite facing severe distress, the state would release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu for five days. “However, the Supreme Court, in its wisdom, directed us to release 15,000 cusecs of water for 10 days. We will try to convince the court once again that the present storage in the reservoirs in the Cauvery basin is not even sufficient to meet our drinking water needs,” Siddaramaiah said.

Siddaramaiah said Nariman had recently told him that the legal team was preparing itself for the final hearing of special leave petition filed by the state challenging the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. The Supreme Court has posted the hearing for October 18.

The government’s decision to release water was opposed by the BJP and the JD(S).

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Telecom companies lost 82.3 lakh subscribers during April lockdown: TRAI

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July 24,2020

New Delhi, Jul 24: Telecom companies lost 82.3 lakh subscribers during the COVID-19 lockdown period of April, data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday showed.

As per the reports received from 342 operators in April, TRAI said the number of broadband subscribers decreased from 68.7 crore at the end of March to 67.6 crore at the end of April with a monthly decline rate of 1.64 per cent.

Top five service providers constituted 98.98 per cent market share of total broadband subscribers with Reliance Jio Infocomm (38.9 crore), Bharti Airtel (14.4 crore), Vodafone Idea (11.1 crore), BSNL (2.1 crore) and Atria Convergence (16 lakh).

The number of overall telephone subscribers decreased from 117.7 crore at the end of March to 116.9 crore at the end of April, showing a monthly decline rate of 0.72 per cent.

The TRAI said total wireless subscribers (2G, 3G and 4G) decreased from 115.7 crore at the end of March to 115 crore at the end of April, thereby registering a monthly decline rate of 0.71 per cent.

Wireless subscription in urban areas decreased from 63.8 crore to 62.9 crore but increased in rural areas from 51.9 crore to 52 crore. Monthly growth rates of urban and rural wireless subscription were minus 1.42 per cent and 0.16 per cent respectively.

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COVID-19 cases doubling in every 10 days: Indian govt

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April 24,2020

New Delhi, Apr 24: The Central government said on Wednesday that the number of COVID-19 cases in the country is now doubling in every 10 days, adding that had the lockdown not been imposed on time, the number of cases would have sky-rocketed to over one lakh by now.

"Had we not taken the decision to impose nationwide lockdown, we would have had around one lakh COVID-19 cases by now. This is a reasonable estimate," said Niti Aayog member V.K. Paul.

Paul, who is also the Chairman of the government's Empowered Committee- 1, said the "cases are now doubling in every 10 days."

"As on March 21, our doubling time of cases was three days. Results started showing on March 23, due to travel restrictions imposed earlier. On April 6, further slowing of doubling rate became visible, thanks to the nationwide lockdown," he added.

He further added that the decision to impose the lockdown was timely and asserted that the curve has begun to flatten.

"Nationwide lockdown helped take us away from the exponential growth curve and thereby contain the growth of COVID-19 cases," he said.

Paul further added that surveillance has been a great strength in containing the spread of the virus.

"Besides containing the spread, augmenting testing and improving preparedness, the nation has brought about a massive behavioural change through a ‘Jan Andolan' (mass movement)," he said.

Meanwhile, the number of confirmed cases in the country has crossed the 23,000-mark, with 718 deaths. Globally, the number of cases has crossed 2.7 million while the death toll has mounted to 1.9 lakh.

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