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‘Punjab ought to have approached Centre but did not’; Here’s why Punjab & Haryana HC directed removal of Punjab Police deployed at Bhakhra Nangal Dam

On 01-05-2025, allegedly, Punjab forcibly took control of the operations and management of the Bhakhra Nangal Dam and Lohand Control Room Water Regulation Offices by deploying a large number of police personnel with the ultimate object of forcibly preventing the Bhakra Beas Management Board from releasing water to Haryana.

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Equitable Apportionment applicable even where the natural flow is “extremely low”; SCOTUS dismisses Mississippi’s absolute ownership claim on its underground water

Supreme Court of the United States: While addressing inter-state water dispute between Mississippi and Tennessee, the Full Bench held that Mississippi’s ownership

Op Eds OP. ED.

A perpetual tussle over Water Resources: An inevitable need for Inter-State mediation in Inter-State Water Disputes

by Iram Majid†

Cite as: 2021 SCC OnLine Blog Exp 19

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Centre to apprise SC on steps taken to set up Cauvery Management Board by May 8

Supreme Court: The 3-Judge Bench of Dipak Misra, CJ and AM Khanwilkar and Dr. DY Chandrachud, JJ directed Centre to apprise it

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Cauvery Water Dispute: Karnataka gets additional 14.75 TMC of water in light of availability of groundwater in Tamil Nadu

Supreme Court: Deciding the Cauvery Water Dispute that reportedly travels beyond 100 years, the bench of Dipak Misra, CJ and Amitava Roy

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Cauvery Dispute: Sections 6(2) and 11 of Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956 does not bar the jurisdiction of Supreme Court under Article 136

Supreme Court: In the Cauvery Water Dispute where the issue relating to referring the matter to the Tribunal was concerned, the 3-judge

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry to nominate representative for constitution of Cauvery Management Board by tomorrow

Supreme Court: With regard to the constitution of the “Cauvery Management Board”, the Court directed the States of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Cauvery Water Dispute: State of Karnataka directed to release 6000 cusecs of water despite the resolution passed by the Karnataka Assembly

Supreme Court: The Court directed the State of Karnataka to release 6000 cusecs of water from tomorrow i.e. 28.09.2016 till the next