Bengaluru: Former Chief Minister and local MLA Siddaramaiah instructed the concerned officials to release water from the Navilu Teerth reservoir in Belgavi to the Malaprabha River due to lack of drinking water in some villages of the Badami assembly constituency.

Speaking to the Belgavi Regional Commissioner via telephone, Siddaramaiah said that the villages of Malaprabha area in the Badami assembly constituency, has the scarcity of water. Hence he suggested that the water be released.

The release of water to the Malaprabha River will solve the drinking water problem, and the crops will also get water. The Regional Commissioner said that immediate action would be taken to release water.

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Thane (PTI): Authorities have seized illegally stored 1,839 gas cylinders and seven vehicles worth over Rs 67 lakh in the Dombivli MIDC area of Thane district, officials said on Saturday.

A special vigilance team of the Mumbai Rationing Department detected an illegal storage of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders in Phase-2 of Dombivli (East).

Cylinders belonging to multiple gas agencies were found stockpiled in closed vehicles, unauthorised warehouses, and open sheds without mandatory permissions from the Explosives Department, Fire Department, or oil companies, according to an official release.