The 765 km Cauvery river that flows through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu is slowly dying due to unregulated inflow of sewage and industrial effluent from cities such as Salem.
The 765 km Cauvery river that flows through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu is slowly dying due to unregulated inflow of sewage and industrial effluent from cities such as Salem.
There were reports from both, Punjab and Haryana, of national highways, state highways, link roads and railway tracks being completely blocked, bringing road and rail traffic to a halt. In other states like Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, the shutdown evoked a mixed response. Here, two protestors sit near barricades put up by the administration at Ghazipur.