The Latest Breaking News from Periyar

What Completing the Sabarimala Vratam and Ayyappa Pilgrimage Actually Does to a Person

The mala changes you before the mountain doesThe morning a priest ties the rudraksha or tulsi mala around your neck and addresses you as swami for the first time, you are not yet a pilgrim. You are a person in ordinary clothes who has just been handed an identity you…

Times Life · Sep 12

How three major rivers in Kerala are struggling with pollution and the efforts to revive them

Purushan Eloor fights pollution in Periyar, S P Ravi addresses Chalakkudy river issues, and Friends of Bharathapuzha, works towards rejuvenating Bharathapuzha.

The Hindu · Mar 21, 2024

Surveillance cameras along Eloor-Edayar stretch of Periyar go defunct

The PCB had installed nine cameras to monitor changes in colour and turbidity parameters of the river

The Hindu · Jan 10, 2024

Boost to Pampa ecosystem conservation plans

Union Ministry of Jal Shakthi has included the river in its river conservation programme along with the Periyar

The Hindu · Oct 10, 2023

Digitising a treasure trove of documents on the construction of Mullaperiyar dam

Digitising a treasure trove of documents on the construction of Mullaperiyar dam 

The Hindu · Jul 20, 2023

A British engineer who brought water and prosperity to a valley in Tamil Nadu

Colonel J. Pennycuick (1841-1911), the architect of the Mullaperiyar dam, has executed many long-lasting projects in India. . He is credited with having transformed the Cumbum Valley into a fertile belt, dotted with paddy fields, vegetables, flower gardens, coconut plantations and vineyards

The Hindu · May 11, 2023

Arikompan seems to explore new habitat in Megamalai

Wild tusker Arikompan which was translocated from Chinnakkanal to the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Idukki is still roaming the Megamalai region in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu · May 7, 2023

India residents try to save a river, officials deny problems

Eloor, a small island on the Periyar River in southern India, used to have rich farmland and be teeming with fish

The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2023

Explained | Rule Curve for Mullaperiyar

The Rule Curve comes into effect between June 10 and November 30, during which the dam gets maximum inflows from the South West Monsoon. 

The Hindu · Sep 1, 2022

More water released from Mullaperiyar, Idukki dams

84 families shifted to relief camps

The Hindu · Aug 9, 2022