SUBMERGE the polemics, legal tangles and conflicting technical claims, and the participants in the inter-State dispute over the Mullaperiyar dam – one of the oldest and highest ‘solid masonry gravi

Tamil Nadu sticks to its contention that the Mullaperiyar dam is safe and the construction of a new dam is unwarranted.

Interview with Ramaswamy R. Iyer, former Secretary, Union Ministry of Water Resources.

IDUKKI (Kerala), 23 DEC: Technical experts on the Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee on Mullaperiyar Dam issue today began their visit of dams in Idukki district and adjoining areas to pro

Himanshu Thakkar is coordinator of the South Asia Network on dams, Rivers & People, edits a magazine dams, Rivers & People and has been working on waterrelated issues for more than two deca

IN VALLAKADAVU of Idukki district in Kerala, P Rajamani, 52, lives in fear.

Pleas for divine intervention sound ludicrous when mouthed by technical experts appearing on television debates.

When was the Mullaperiyar Dam constructed?

CHENNAI: Assuring that the 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam was safe, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today appealed to the people of Kerala not to succumb "to the mechanisations of ill-wishers

Ahead of a crucial meeting of an Empowered Committee here on December 5, Kerala has filed an application before the panel, reiterating its demand for the construction of a new dam and arguing that