Mysuru: With the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway being widened, a portion of the building of K.R. Mills, a heritage structure on the Highway, was razed on Wednesday, to facilitate road widening. The Krishnarajendra Textile Mills, popularly known as K.R. Mills,was established by the then Maharaja of Mysore Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar in 1929,to provide employment to the people…
Outdated Medians to give way for modern Jersey Barriers
July 15, 2019NHAI to replace 250-mm Medians with 0.85-meter Jersey Barriers on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway Mysore: In order to minimise accidents on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will replace the existing raised medians with pre-cast concrete Jersey Barriers. Many vehicles meet with accidents on this Highway as speeding drivers lose control and topple over the…
Traffic on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway disrupted as farmers block Road at Srirangapatna
July 6, 2019Srirangapatna: Traffic on the ever busy Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway came to a standstill at Srirangapatna as hundreds of farmers blocked the Road in protest against the State Government’s failure to release water to KRS and Hemavathi Canals. Upset over the Government’s apathy to their demands, which chiefly included release of water to canals, revival of Pandavapura…
Journalist, wife, son injured as cars collide head-on
June 21, 2019Mysuru: A journalist, his wife and son sustained serious injured when two cars collided head-on near Kalenahalli on Mysuru-Bengaluru highway in Mandya taluk yesterday. The injured are journalist Nesara Kadanakuppe, his wife Megha and son Akshara. They were proceeding on the highway towards Mysuru, when another car proceeding towards Bengaluru, hit the median and collided…
Block Health Education Officer killed in road accident
April 28, 2019Srirangapatna: A Block Health Education Officer was killed when a car rammed into the scooter the Officer was riding near Kodishettypura village on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway yesterday. The deceased Officer is Manjula (40), a resident of Mandya. Manjula was proceeding to Kodishettypura General Hospital on her scooter, when a car rammed into the scooter resulting in…
Man killed in mishap
April 22, 2019Mysuru: A 50-year-old motorcyclist, who was undergoing treatment at a city hospital after sustaining serious injuries in a road mishap, breathed his last yesterday evening. Jayakumar (50) of Arakere in Srirangapatna taluk is the deceased. He was travelling on his motorcycle from Baburayanakoppal to Srirangapatna on Mysuru-Bengaluru highway on the night of Apr.19, when a…
Traffic diversion during Nikhil’s nomination filing causes hardship to commuters
March 26, 2019Mandya: The District Administration’s decision to divert traffic from Mandya on the ever-busy Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway, caused severe inconvenience and a lot of hardship to thousands of commuters. As Nikhil Kumaraswamy was scheduled to file his nomination in a huge road show, the authorities had diverted traffic on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway passing through Mandya, from 9 am…
10-lane Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway : MP Pratap Simha inspects works; project in 24 months
March 3, 2019Mysuru: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha this morning inspected the works on widening the existing four-lane 118-kilometre Highway between Mysuru and Bengaluru to a ten-lane (including 2 service roads) National Highway (NH). He took stock of the works at Gananguru village in Srirangapatna taluk in Mandya district. Speaking to reporters, the MP said that National Highway…
A MODI-fied Tea Stall
February 16, 2019Free CHAI for farmers and auto drivers who visit before 8 am By B.C. Thimmaiah If the tea stall in Gujarat’s Vadnagar where Prime Minister Narendra Modi once sold tea during his childhood has been converted into a tourist spot, here in Mysuru we have a tea stall that is dedicated to Modi and just…
Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway works begin
January 11, 2019Project to pick up pace after Sankranti; roadside hotels, buildings to be demolished Bengaluru : Works on the project to construct an eight-lane National Highway (NH) between Mysuru and Bengaluru has begun on a war footing. In all, it will be a 10-lane Highway with four lanes and two service roads on either side. The…
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