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 …
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu can raise the storage level of the Mullaperiyar reservoir to 142 feet and there is no need to take permission from Kerala, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy said here on Wednesday. Criticising Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi for not implementing the Supreme Court order on the issue, Dr. …
Study done by IIT, Roorkie THIRUVANANATHAPURAM: A structural stability analysis of the Mullaperiyar dam conducted by the Department of Earthquake Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkie, has concluded that the main Mullaperiyar dam and the baby dam are likely to face damage in the event of an earthquake. …
Prabhakar Rao Voruganti | New Delhi "YOU are over-reaching the judiciary," the Supreme Court told the counsel for Kerala at one stage during the day-long hearing on the original suit filed by Tamil Nadu over Mullaiperiyar dam. Senior counsel Rajeev Dhavan, appearing for Kerala, told a Bench comprising Justice D …
J. Balaji NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has said he is not anti-Tamil Nadu and will do nothing against the interests of the Tamils. How can he be anti-Tamil when he himself is partly a Tamilian and his wife, Jayashree, is a hundred per …
CHENNAI: Dravidar Kazhagam president K. Veeramani on Thursday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to remove the portfolio of Environment and Forests from Union Minister Jairam Ramesh,
If the Kerala govt thumps its chest for trampling upon the law and expects that the TN govt should accept the same by bowing its head, then people will wonder which State is ruling the country } CHIEF Minister M Karunanidhi on Tuesday took exception to the remarks made by …
`There is no stay order from any court, including Supreme Court' "What we need now is guts... the Tamil Nadu government can send its engineers of the Public Works Department and down the shutters on the dam to raise the storage level JANATA Party president Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday said …
The survey for a new dam in Mullaperiyar began on Monday amid a war of words between Kerala and Tamil Nadu over the legitimacy of the venture. The survey for the new dam had in fact started in 2007 itself and the fresh survey is only being conducted in the …
AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa on Sunday said if the Centre can object to China building a dam on Brahmaputra river in that country, Tamil Nadu, too, could oppose construction of a dam across Mullaperiyar river in Kerala.
CHIEF Minister M Karunanidhi on Thursday rubbished the remarks of AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa on the Mullaiperiyar issue. "Jayalalithaa's statement is nothing but a bundle of lies and she had made certain charges without verifying the facts... Though I don't want to respond to the lies of Jayalalithaa, I …
G Babu Jayakumar | ENS "I WANT TO CHANGE THE WAY POLITICS WORKS IN TN. I UNDERSTAND THERE IS NO ROOM FOR YOUNGSTERS AND PARTIES HERE DO NOT HAVE FAITH IN THEM." On DMK and MK GOOD ALLIES: Congress and DMK are good allies... I have great admiration for Tamil …
This paper will first provide a synoptic account of the problems relating to water; from that diagnostic statement it will proceed to an adumbration of the responses needed and the changes in water policy that they call for; and it will then outline the water law reform that this requires. …
BANGALORE: Minister for Home V.S. Acharya on Wednesday said Karnataka had released only excess water from the Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) to Tamil Nadu. He told presspersons here that authorities had released excess water into the Cauvery as they could not impound water beyond 123 ft as the full reservoir level …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The Union government has called a meeting of the Cauvery basin States here on Monday to thrash out differences between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the 1,150-megawatt Cauvery Hydro Power Project (CHPP). To be chaired by Union Power Secretary Harishankar Brahma, the meeting is expected to be …
Aug. 10: The state government on Monday differed with the Union law minister, Mr Veerappa Moily, and asserted that Karnataka had constructed illegal irrigation projects across the Krishna River even as the Opposition criticised him. On a visit to the city on Sunday, Mr Moily had said that projects constructed …
This report is divided into four main components. Section 1 summarizes the history and status of major water disputes between India and three of its neighbors, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Section 2 forecasts trends in water demand by analyzing expected growth patterns in domestic, agricultural and industrial use. It also …
