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Bengaluru: BJP has decided to boycott the all-party meeting called by Chief Minister Siddaramaih today to discuss the future course of action following Supreme Court’s order directing Karnataka to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu till September 27.

The party has demanded that the government should call the Assembly session immediately to decide the issue.

“I have already spoken to Jagadish Shettar, Ananth Kumar, Sadananda Gowda, we have decided not to attend any meeting called by the Chief Minister on the Cauvery issue,” State BJP Chief Yeddyurappa told reporters in Shivamogga.

“Immediately Assembly session should be called where the issue should be discussed in detail, the decision taken there should be informed to the Supreme Court,” he said.

“Despite calling cabinet meeting, floor leaders meeting, all party meeting for three or four times you (government) did not take any specific decision keeping interest of farmers in mind. At least now immediately assembly session should be called and a clear decision should be taken, there by respecting the public opinion…” he added.

Karnataka will have to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water per day to Tamil Nadu till September 27, the Supreme Court had yesterday said while raising the 3,000 cusecs fixed by the Supervisory Committee.

A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and U U Lalit has also directed the Centre to constitute within four weeks the Cauvery Water Management Board as directed by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal in its award.

Chief Minister Siddaramaih who, has termed the Supreme Court’s order as “unimplementable”, is currently chairing Council of Ministers meeting at Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat to decide on the further course of action.

While JD(S) is expected to attend the all-party meeting, party’s Mandya MP Puttaraju and few legislators from Cauvery basin region have said that they will resign from their posts in protest against the Supreme Court order.

Sporadic protests have continued in the river basin districts, especially Mandya, the epicentre of the Cauvery agitation since morning, where the agitators have blocked Bengaluru-Mysuru road at various places.

Government, which has appealed for peace, has made elaborate security arrangements in the city and southern districts to ensure that no untoward incidents happen.

State Reserve Police, City Armed Reserve Police, Rapid Action Force and Quick Reaction Teams have been deployed all over city, where prohibitory orders under section 144 of CrpC is in force. City police has prohibited sale of liquor and opening of bars, wine shops and pubs from 6 AM today to 1 AM tomorrow in the commissionerate limits.

(Agencies)

New Delhi: Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday announced the third list of Smart Cities. According to the third list, 27 cities have been selected under the project.

Varanasi, Kanpur, Agra, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Thane, Nashik, Nagpur, Kalyan Dombivali, Aurangabad, Gwalior, Ujjain, Kota, Ajmer, Vadodara, Hubbali-Dharwad, Mangaluru, Shivamogga, Tumkaru, Rourkela, Madurai, Salem, Thanjavur, Vellore, Tirupati, Namchi and Kohima have been selected under the third list.

Of the 27 cities, ten cities are from states where the BJP is in power while four cities have been selected from Karnataka where the Congress is in power.

The Centre is expected to spend about Rs 66,883 crore for developing these 27 cities. The Centre will give Rs 48,000 crore for five years for the programme and each city will be given Rs 100 crore per year. A matching fund of Rs 48,000 crore will have to be contributed by states from their internal resources/market borrowing and through private sector.

India plans on having 100 Smart Cities by 2022. So far 60 have been chosen while the remaining will be chosen by 2018.

(Agencies)

New Delhi: A 21-year-old woman was brutally stabbed to death in broad daylight by her 34-year-old stalker, who attacked her nearly 22 times as passersby looked on in north Delhi’s Burari area.

The accused, identified as Surender Singh, carried out the frenzied attack when the victim, Karuna, was walking through the area at 9 AM. She was a teacher at Novel Reaches School, police said.

Scooterists and passersby looked on as Singh dragged the girl, who fell down as she tried to save herself, and relentlessly attacked her. Singh stabbed the woman 22 times.

A man tried to approach but backed off and left from there.

Some onlookers later caught Singh and handed him over to the police.

Singh had been stalking the girl for a year but she resisted his advances, said a senior police officer.
The victim used to learn computer at a training centre owned by the accused and he fell in love with her, police said.

The victim’s family had lodged a complaint against the stalker six months back but both the families reached a compromise and the accused had stopped stalking her, said the victim’s family.

However, he attacked her today and brutally killed her, police said.

(PTI)

Bengaluru: A group of journalists, inlcuding Nasheman’s Editor-in-Chief Mr. Rizwan Asad held a candlelight protest against the killing of 18 Indian soldiers in a militant attack in Uri, Jammu & Kashmir.

Holding neighbouring Pakistan responsible for the attack, the protestors called on Narendra Modi “to make a very strong condemnatory statement exposing Pakistan”.