Mysuru: Serial thefts have taken place in flats at an apartment on Hunsur Road here. While miscreants have stolen cash and other articles from the flats of Anand, an employee of Judiciary Department and journalist Lokesh Nerabidare, the miscreants have made a futile bid to loot the house of Somalatha, an employee at PWD. Devaraja…
By V. N. Prasad, Design Engineer & PMC; Roads (Retd.) With due respects to my learned friends who staged silent protests against straightening of the stretch between Kalamandira and the Mosque on Hunsur Road near Jaladarshini Guest House, I wish to make the following observations from a design engineer’s perspective. Having practiced Road Engineering from…
By Dr. B.R. Sainath Iyer Hunsur Road in Mysuru is acutely curved for about 400-850 meters near Kalamandira to Jaladarshini Guest House and it has been like that for years. Accidents have been occurring on that stretch for years. Suddenly these facts have become eyesore and unacceptable for no known reason and lines are drawn…
Mysuru: The controversial Rs.12 crore road straightening work on Hunsur Road, which has faced the ire and opposition of the public, has now reached the Office of the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari. In an e-mail letter to the Minister, Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) has urged him to withdraw the project…
Mysuru: The works on installation of magic boxes on Hunsur Road between Paduvarahalli and Kukkarahalli lake is going on at a fast pace. The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has taken up the installation works after the recent rains caused havoc in the areas where the rainwater mixed with sewage entered most of the houses on…
Mysuru: Taking the District Administration, leaders of political parties and the PWD head-on for the implementation of the road straightening work on Hunsur Road near Jaladarshini Guest House, ACP (Traffic) K.N. Madiah categorically stated that the accidents occurred due to the negligence of the drivers and not because of the curve on the road. He…
Picture shows the works of installing Magic Boxes for rain water from Vinayakanagar to flow into Kukkarahalli Lake in progress on Hunsur Road. Traffic on one part of the road would be opened in a day or two.
Mysuru: An incident of a con woman, diverting the attention of an elderly lady and yanking off the gold chain the elderly woman was wearing and fleeing from the spot has been reported on Hunsur Road near Hootagalli yesterday. The elderly woman, who lost her gold chain weighing about 33 grams, has been identified as…
Mysuru: Amidst protests and counter protests, the ground-breaking ceremony (guddali puja) for the road straightening works on Hunsur Road near Jaladarshini Guest House was performed by leaders cutting across party lines, here this morning. Despite the stiff opposition from the residents and environmental groups to the Rs. 12 crore project, the might of the State…
Mysuru: District Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa arrived to perform guddali puja to the road straightening work, the name of which is “Improvement to curve in the black spot of NH 275 in Mysore City limit in front of Jaladarshini Guest House,” after the protesters had left the spot. Addressing media persons, he said, “The Bengaluru-Mysuru-Bantwal…
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