Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bharatiya Kisan Union Purwa through its Secretary Vs Union of India Ministry of Jal Shakti & Others dated 07/03/2025. The grievance of the applicant is that railway bridge between Daraganj and Jhunsi is being constructed on the flood plains of …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Mullaperiyar dam case took a new twist on Wednesday with the Supreme Court constituting a high-level empowered committee to go into all issues, including the safety aspects of the dam, raising the water level beyond 136 ft as also Kerala
Tirupur: Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Vaiko asked the Central and State governments to take steps to stop the Kerala government from going ahead with the proposal to construct a dam across Pambar river.
protest: MDMK general secretary Vaiko leading a demonstration in the city. MADURAI: Any lethargy by the State Government on the Mullaperiyar dam row with neighbouring Kerala would certainly ruin the economy in southern districts of Tamil Nadu and also lead to water crisis in Madurai in the near future, said …
Ramaswamy R. Iyer The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal was established in 1990, under the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, at a specific direction of the Supreme Court. Ironically, and despite a constitutional and statutory bar on jurisdiction, the court has made it very difficult for the Tribunal to function in accordance …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: Contending that the Mullaperiyar water dispute is an inter-State water dispute that cannot be resolved by the Supreme Court, Kerala on Thursday suggested that the Centre could be asked to constitute a tribunal to adjudicate the issue as it has wider ramifications. Senior counsel Harish Salve, …
Prabhakar Rao Voruganti | ENS "IF five of us decide that it is a water dispute, everything goes," Justice D K Jain said while hearing the daylong arguments on Thursday on Mullaiperiyar dam. Senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for the State of Kerala replied that even his legislation (the Act …
S.S. NEGI In the hotly contested Mullaperiyar dam case, the focus on Tuesday turned to the feasibility of a new dam with the Supreme Court putting specific query to the lawyer of Tamil Nadu asking why the state was so "sensitive" about the construction of a new reservoir. While Tamil …
NEW DELHI: Senior counsel K Parasaran continued to press home the point that no court except the Supreme Court has powers to decide on the Mullaiperiyar dispute. Appearing for Tamil Nadu, the senior counsel told a Bench comprising Justices D K Jain, B Sudershan Reddy, Mukundakam Sharma, R M Lodha …
Jisha Surya THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After playing spoilsport to the political ambitions of many leaders in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the 115-year-old Mullaperiyar dam has now started affecting the nuptial dreams of youths living on the banks of Periyar. A new phenomenon of an unusual increase in the number of aborted marriage …
Prabhakar Rao Voruganti | SENIOR counsel K Parasaran, appearing for Tamil Nadu, tried to drive home the point in the apex court on Thursday that the current dispute between Tamil Nadu and Kerala is not a water dispute at all. Appearing before a Bench comprising Justice D K Jain, Justice …
S.S. NEGI As a Constitution bench of the Supreme Court commenced its hearing on contentious Mulla Periyar dam row between Tamil Nadu and Kerala, former Attorney General K. Parasaran, appearing for the Tamil Nadu government, said that raising the height of the reservoir to the level of 152 feet would …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: Gujarat appears to have already handed over the Asiatic lions to assertive neighbour Madhya Pradesh (MP) on a platter. This time when the petition came up for hearing in the supreme court, the Gujarat government had made up its mind to seek four weeks
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Undeterred by Tamil Nadu Governor S.S. Barnala's statement that efforts to build a new dam in Mullaperiyar were unnecessary, Kerala Irrigation Minister N.K. Premachandran Thursday said the new dam would soon be a reality. Currently a survey team is going ahead and identifying the exact location of the proposed …
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government will urge the Centre to enable increasing the maximum level of storage in the existing dam across the Mullaperiyar in accordance with the Supreme Court orders and take steps to prevent the construction of an
GURUVAYUR: Kerala and Tamil Nadu should resolve the Mullaperiyar issue amicably and set an example for other states, Union Minister for Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal said here on Tuesday.
MARUMALARCHI Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) general secretary Vaiko announced on Monday that his party would organise agitations in four districts on January 10 condemning the Central Government's stance on the Mullaiperiyar dam issue. Talking to reporters here, Vaiko said that Tamil Nadu has always maintained amiable relationship and brotherhood with …
