Report by Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) in Original Application No 184, 233 and 234 of 2024 (SZ) (Suo Motu Vs The Principal Secretary, Kerala & Others). The matter related to mass fish kill in Periyar river in Kerala after suspected effluent release. The NGT was informed that the …
The Tamil Nadu Government on Friday resolved to be firm on the Mullaperiyar issue. Presenting Budget 2010-11 at the new Assembly Complex, State Finance Minister K Anbazhagan said his Government had filed an interlocutory petition before the Supreme Court. This sought to recall its order constituting an Empowered Committee on …
FORMER chief justice of India Justice A S Anand will head a five-member committee to examine the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam. A five-judge Constitution bench comprising Justice D K Jain, Justice B Sudershan Reddy, Justice M K Sharma, Justice R M Lodha and Justice Deepak Verma asked the empowered …
A five-member Empowered Committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge will now decide whether the height of the century-old Mullaperiyar Dam, supplying water to Kerala and Tamil Nadu, should be raised. The matter has been the bone of contention between the two States. Though an official order in this …
Kerala on Tuesday said neighbour Tamil Nadu has neither riparian nor constitutional right to challenge its law restraining the state from raising the height of Mullaperiyar dam from 136 feet to 142 feet. Commencing the arguments for the state before a Constitution Bench of five judges, counsel for Kerala Harish …
VR Jayaraj | Idukki Even as the burning issue of the 114-year-old Mullaperiyar dam on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border is being looked into by a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, Kerala, in whose territory the dam is situated, is confidently continuing its efforts to build a new dam further …
Can the legislature make a law to circumvent the inconvenience of a Supreme Court judgment? This is what the Tamil Nadu government wants a fivejudge Constitutional Bench of the apex court to decide on after the Kerala Assembly passed a Dam Safety Act to allegedly bypass a Supreme Court decision …
ALAPPUZHA: Health and Social Welfare Minister P K Sreemathi on Tuesday said that the Kerala Pollution Control Board would soon set up a Continuous Ambient Water Quality Monitoring Station (CAWQMS) in the Eloor stretch of the Periyar.
Vaiko (V Gopalaswamy), general secretary of Tamil Nadu's Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetta Kazhakam (MDMK), threatened Kerala with 'economic blockade' if it went ahead with the plan for construction of a new dam near the 113-year-old one at Mullaperiyar in Idukki district, along the border between the two States. Talking to newsmen …
IDUKKI: Kerala will submit a detailed project report to the Centre over the proposed construction of a new dam at Mullaperiyar in place of the existing structure within six months. This was stated by N K Parameswaran Nair, convenor of the three-member Mullaperiyar cell recently set up by the state …
K. VENUGOPAL The Kerala high court decided to set up a green bench in November to hear environment-related cases every week The "green bench" of the Kerala high court on Friday gave its first directive by asking authorities to immediately set up a garbage treatment plant near the Periyar River …
KATTAPPANA: The water level in the Mullaperiyar dam fell to 135.5 ft on Wednesday as rain kept away and Tamil Nadu increased the discharge from the dam. The flow of water from the dam into the Periyar downstream has almost stopped. On Tuesday, there was a nominal flow. The inflow …
The Tamil Nadu Public Works Department on Monday claimed that there was no need for panic in Kerala even if the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam reached 142 feet. The water level permitted in the dam, as set by Kerala, is 136 feet. Meanwhile, the Idukki district administration began …
The water level in the 113-year-old masonry dam at Mullaperiyar on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border remained just two points below the maximum permitted level of 136 feet escalating panic among the people living on the banks of River Periyar in Idukki district of Kerala. On Sunday evening, the water level, …
Thiruvananthapuram: A team of experts deputed by Kerala government claimed to have detected leakages at three spots on the 113-year-old Mullaperiyar dam over which the state is locked in a dispute with Tamil Nadu. The leakages were detected by the team members headed by Mullaperiyar Special Cell chairman M K …
Mathew A Thomas | ENS ANNOUNCEMENT of fresh leakages due to rising water level in Mullai- periyar dam by some Kerala officials has cleared the ground for Tamil Nadu to conduct maintenance work on the dam. The water levels in the Mullaiperiyar dam reached 133 ft on Thursday. The Supreme …
The long-standing water dispute between the States of Tamil Nadu and Kerala on raising the height of the century-old Mullaperiyar dam got prolonged on Tuesday after the Supreme Court referred the matter to a Constitution Bench. The Bench of Justices DK Jain, Mukundakam Sharma and RM Lodha passed the order …
Studies on the environmental distribution of radionuclides, namely 226 Ra and 228 Ra are important in the context of external and ingestion hazards evaluation. The Cochin backwater, located in the south-west coast of India is a potential sink for anthropogenic inputs of natural radionuclides. The estuary in its surroundings is …
Continuing her tirade against the Tamil Nadu CM M Karunanidhi, the AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa on Friday charged him with bartering away the rights of the people of Tamil Nadu people the Mullaperiyar issue. In a scathing statement, Jayalalithaa alleging changed stance on the issue and objecting to deferring of …
