Bogadi road gets much awaited re-asphalting Mysore/Mysuru: In view of President Droupadi Murmu’s visit to Mysuru to participate in the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations (60th anniversary) of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) on Sept. 1, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) officials have taken up pothole-filling and re-asphalting works on the road from Bogadi…
Potholed Bogadi Road poses danger to motorists
May 26, 2025Mysuru: It has been several months since a part of Bogadi Road near All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) is damaged, but the authorities concerned in Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) have turned a blind eye, leaving the poor commuters to suffer. While a part of the road is covered with asphalt, another part…
Civic woes on Bogadi Road far from over
February 17, 2024No crash barrier on a stretch between Gangothri Extension and Chaduranga Road Mysore/Mysuru: It seems the civic woes related to Bogadi Road is far from over, although the incidents of four lives lost in freak accidents on the same stretch of road still remain fresh in the minds of the people. In separate cases, three…
SOM IMPACT: Warning signboards installed on Bogadi Road
February 17, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Following reports of accidents owing to unscientific laying of concrete medians on Bogadi Road and a news item titled ‘Bogadi Road concrete median causes near-fatal accident’ published in Star of Mysore on Feb. 14, the Krishnaraja Traffic Police have installed warning signboards to alert motorists of the possible danger at Dr. M.B. Padma Circle…
Bogadi Road concrete median causes near-fatal accident
February 14, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Even as memories of recent fatal accidents caused by unscientific road humps and a fallen tree on Bogadi Road remain fresh in people’s minds, randomly placed concrete medians sans reflectors are now posing a serious threat to commuters. In an incident last night on Bogadi Road, a 59-year-old man (name withheld on request) narrowly…
Revisiting the unscientific humps on Bogadi Road: VC sought, Commissioner ordered, staff implemented
February 10, 2024Now, who should be held accountable for three deaths? Mysore/Mysuru: The heated public discourse surrounding the perceived negligence of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) authorities in installing unscientific speed-breakers near the Main Gate of Manasagangothri, the PG campus of University of Mysore (UoM) on Bogadi Main Road, resulting in the tragic deaths of 3 individuals…
Death by tree fall
February 8, 2024The PWD wanted to fell this tree while widening the road a few years ago. Star of Mysore was also for cutting the tree for widening the road. But some environmentalists objected to it and the tree was saved. Now a precious life is lost. The road was widened haphazardly around the tree making it…
Saga of ‘road hump’
February 8, 2024South Gate of Manasagangothri, injuries, loss of precious lives, damages to vehicles, trauma et al. By V.N. Prasad At the outset, my heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and sympathies to the injured ones. Don’t worry. No one will be brought to books, much less punished. However, high time a strong ‘engineering jurisprudence’ was put…
Killer Road Humps | Guilty Officers should pay compensation to accident victims: Anveshana Trust
February 2, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Following the death of three youths (Yashwanth, Shivan and Kumar) in separate road accidents by unscientific road humps near Manasagangothri main gate on Bogadi road here recently, Anveshana Seva Trust has demanded that the Officers concerned should cough up compensation on their own, not the Government. Addressing media persons at Patrakarthara Bhavana this morning,…
Killer Road Humps removed
February 1, 2024PWD Engineers find the humps unscientific after conducting inspection Mysore/Mysuru: Finally, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) authorities woke up to the alarming situation by removing the newly-laid road humps (speed-breakers) that were found unscientific by PWD Engineers, near the main gate of Manasagangothri, the PG campus of University of Mysore on Bogadi road in the city…














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