Centre to implement GPS-based toll collection system New Delhi: The Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry has finalised a Global Positioning System (GPS)- based toll collection system to ensure seamless movement of vehicles across the country. Toll barriers will cease to exist in the country when this is implemented within the next two years, Road…
Home Minister instructs Cops to check vehicles for drugs on Highways
October 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai has instructed the Police to check vehicles especially during nights for drugs and also to conduct raids after collecting relevant information. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Dr. A.N. Prakash Gowda, speaking to Star of Mysore, said that the Home Minister, who addressed all Police Commissioners, Superintendents of Police (SPs), Additional…
Plant fruit and flower saplings in Parks, Highways: MP
June 26, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Stating that nurturing is more important than the number in the planting of saplings, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha said that the Forest Department officials should concentrate more on saving our ecology and environment by planting of fruit-bearing and flowering plants in Parks and also along the Highways and other roads. He was presiding over…
Electronic Toll collection on Highways from Dec. 1
November 20, 2019Vehicles without ‘FASTag’ will have to pay double the toll amount New Delhi: Driving on Indian highways means encountering many kinds of speed-breakers — intended and unintended. The latter category includes fellow drivers who are blasé about lanes, cattle that have decided to cross the road and the toll collection plaza, where one stops every…
Ban on Highway bars
April 1, 2017Karnataka gets relief Owners of liquor shops can heave a sigh of relief as Supreme Court has set a deadline till Sept. 30, 2017 to relocate their shops from State and National Highways. However, highway liquor shops in Karnataka will have to be shifted by June 30 as the State’s Excise Year is from July…
Your travel on State Highways has just got dearer
March 18, 2017Cabinet clears levy of toll in 19 State Highways Transport and tourist taxi costs likely to go up Zipping through most of the State Highways will now come at a price for motorists as the State Cabinet yesterday gave its nod for collection of toll on 1,530 km of roads along 19 stretches. These roads…
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