The Idukki dam is receiving more tourists, thanks to the boating facility launched by the Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary. There is an interesting myth about the origin of the dam. A tribal couple ...

The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) dam safety and hydel tourism wings have started steps to augment security arrangements in the Idukki and Cheruthoni dams. After a major security breach ...

Of late, the Cheruthoni dam, whose spillways are discharging up to 8 lakh litres of water per second, has been stealing the thunder and the Idukki arch dam has been momentarily consigned to oblivion.

No one can quite forget the photograph of water gushing down from one of the shutters of the Idukki dam at Cheruthoni the last time it was opened in 1992. A good 26 years on, the state waits with ...

In the wake of the increasing water level in Idukki reservoir, one shutter of the Cheruthoni dam will be raised up to 40-150cm, releasing 40 to 150 cusecs of water from 6am on Tuesday, the Idukki ...

IDUKKI: Excess water from Idukki dam will be released before the water level reaches the maximum level of 2,400 feet, power minister M M Mani said here on Saturday. Addressing an emergency review ...

Idukki (Kerala) [India], Oct 05 (ANI): District authorities on Friday said shutters of Cheruthoni dam, located in Kerala's Idukki district will not be opened today. This comes hours after the ...

Hindu Parishad hurriedly conducted the "idol installation ceremony" at the "Ayyappa temple" it constructs within the reservoir of Idukki Dam. This was done in an apparent attempt to outwit the ...

Idukki dam reservoir in Kerala is nearly full as incessant rains continue to lash the region. The water level in the dam is just nine feet short of the full level forcing the authorities to issue ...

Narrow gorges run through this forested district in the Western Ghats. The Idukki arch dam stretches across the Periyar river, joining the Kuravan and Kurathi hills. Pettimudi in Rajamala ...

On both earlier occasions, the Idukki reservoir was opened in October, during the northeast monsoon. This is the first southwest monsoon that has seen the dam being opened. In reservoir was first ...

Shutters of the Idukki arch dam may not need to be opened just yet, with the catchment areas witnessing a substantial weakening of monsoon rain and inflows reducing to a trickle.