The Cauvery Water Management Authority, following a decision by the Cauvery Water Resources Committee, has instructed the state of Karnataka to begin releasing 3500 cusecs of water from the Cauvery River into the state of Tamil Nadu daily. This requirement took effect on Thursday.
According to this directive, Karnataka must ensure the release of a total volume of 4 TMC (thousand million cubic) feet of river water to the neighboring state.
Thousands of people continued to arrive in the settlement of Castillejos throughout the day intending to cross the border into the Spanish city. This human wave, stretching over five kilometers, overwhelmed the Moroccan police.
After a day when the flow of migrants, most of whom were young people from different parts of the country, did not stop, security forces activated a special system to prevent attempts to approach the border perimeter.
Following the police intervention, hundreds of people began retreating to the city center of Castillejos, where most plan to spend the night to attempt crossing in the coming hours.
A young Moroccan man told the EFE agency: 'They dispersed us, but we are not going to give up on the attempt.'
The Sundarbans supports the lives of thousands of families, but any trip into the forest for fishing, crab catching, or honey gathering can turn into a tragedy. For many women, this has led to them becoming 'tigress widows.'
Since 2000, about 300 people have died due to tiger attacks. For many of these widows, the grief continued long after their husbands' deaths. They were called 'swami khejos' or 'husbands devourers'; they were accused, ostracized, denied compensation, and left to raise their children alone.
Years later, the social enterprise i-Behind The Ink (IBTI), with support from Conservation International, invited these women to participate in restoring the disappearing mangrove forests of the Sundarbans while providing them with livelihoods. Today, these women collect seeds of rare Sundari trees, care for fragile saplings, and plant them along the eroding riverbanks.
Each tree they plant strengthens the natural defense of the Sundarbans against cyclones. By 2025, 59 women joined this initiative, restoring 100 hectares by planting over one hundred thousand mangrove trees. As one of the 'tigress widows,' Heta Mridika, says: 'One tree is one life.' Women who lost their husbands in the Sundarbans are now protecting the future of this region by planting one mangrove tree each.
