Mysore/Mysuru: The State Government’s decision to impose lockdown from July 14 evening to 22 and a surging number of COVID-19 positive cases in Bengaluru has forced people to go back to their native places. On the morning of July 13, a large number of vehicles piled up at toll gates at Bengaluru’s borders. There was…
Amendments to Land Reforms Act: Farmers to block Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway tomorrow
June 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Condemning the amendments made to Land Reforms Act and orders being made to implement by the State Government, the farmers will be staging a nationwide protest by blocking Highways on June 20, said Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha District President Vidyasagar T. Ramegowda in a press meet here recently. Stating that both the Central and…
Tight vehicle screening at 5 Mysuru District borders
May 6, 2020COVID stickers pasted on vehicles; indelible seal stamped on symptomatic travellers Mandatory 14-day quarantine for outside State visitors; asymptomatic persons let off Mysore/Mysuru: Determined to take stringent measures against spread of Coronavirus infection even after the State Government decided to allow one-time, two-way inter-district passes to facilitate people stranded in other cities to return home,…
COVID-19 impact: An ever-busy Highway deserted now
April 4, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: On any given day and given time, thousands of vehicles traverse on this Highway connecting Mysuru and State Capital Bengaluru. More than 25,000 vehicles ply on this stretch every day and during peak hours, it is bumper-to-bumper traffic. Now the road is deserted, thanks to Coronavirus scare and the nation-wide lockdown. Even if one…
Road projects on track: MP
February 20, 2020Land acquisition for Mysuru-Kushalnagar Economic Corridor from next month Mysuru-Bengaluru 10-lane Highway will be completed in 24 months from now Mysore/Mysuru: Land acquisition for the Mysuru-Kushalnagar Economic Corridor Expressway Project from Paschimavahini in Mysuru till Kushalnagar in Kodagu along the existing Mysuru-Madikeri National Highway (NH)-275 will begin next month, said Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha. Addressing…
Vegetable vendors, masons during day, robbers at night
February 8, 2020Nine including one contract Pourakarmika of MCC arrested for highway robbery Srirangapatna: They were a group of youngsters, all between 19 and 24, and at an age when other youths in their age group focus on careers, these nine youth took to crime for lucrative and easy money. Into the habit of leading a life…
Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway Works: Two labourers buried alive as earth caves in
February 7, 2020Maddur: Two labourers were killed after they were buried alive while at work on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway expansion in front of the Agriculture Department Office in Maddur last evening. The deceased labourers are Kashinath (36) and Raju Gandh (30), both hailing from Jharkhand. The Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway expansion works has been awarded to Dileep Build Con,…
Daring Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway Robbery
February 2, 2020One car, one bike waylaid and driven away Srirangapatna/Mysore: The tourist town of Srirangapatna woke up to a shocking crime news this morning as a gang of Highway dacoits, after a brief lull, struck again looting two motorists of their belongings and vehicles in two separate incidents on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway before the crack of dawn…
Motorists stabbed on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway
January 22, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Two persons, riding a Honda Activa scooter towards city, were stabbed by miscreants, who first rammed their four wheeler into the scooter before stabbing them near Kalasthawadi on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway on the night of Jan. 19. The motorists who were stabbed have been identified as Syed Saleem and Tanveer Khan of N.R. Mohalla in…
Before robbing Bengaluru-bound engineer in city… Extortionists had robbed two more persons at Induvalu, Siddalingapura
January 16, 2020Modus operandi: Offering Lift Mysuru: The gang of three miscreants, who had robbed a Bengaluru-bound engineer Madhu Vikas of cash and gold ornaments in the early hours of Jan. 13 morning, had earlier robbed two-persons of their cash and mobile phones near Induvalu and Siddalingapura on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway on the same day. The miscreants, who…
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