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. Such damage may lead to failure of the dam.
"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.
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 cent Tamilian, he said, talking to The Hindu on Thursday.
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 }
`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
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 areas coming under Periyar Tiger Reserve with the permission of the Union environment ministry.
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.
