From The Hindu Archives, August 3, 1976: "Karnataka is giving five tmcft. of water to Tamil Nadu as a ‘gesture of goodwill’ to save the kuruvai crop in Thanjavur delta."

On July 28, after reviewing the situation in the drought-hit Cauvery basin, the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee directed Karnataka to release 4 tmcft of water to Tamil Nadu at…

Archived records from The Hindu show that in the mid-1980s, then-Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran, or MGR, repeatedly sent senior ministers to Karnataka to seek the release of…