Five cars including escort vehicle of former CM Siddharamaiah damaged District Armed Reserve Sub-Inspector dies of heart attack Mandya: Five cars including the escort vehicle of former Chief Minister (CM) Siddharamaiah were damaged in a serial accident on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway yesterday. Shocked over the accident, District Armed Reserve (DAR) Sub-Inspector, who was accompanying the former…
Mysuru: Will the historical Wellesley Bridge near Srirangapatna meet the fate of Lushington Bridge at Kollegal that was washed away last month? Seeing the present state of the Wellesley Bridge that is near-to-submersion due to thousands of cusecs of water being released from the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam, heritage lovers feel that the bridge…
Mandya: Four people were killed in three separate accidents in Mandya since last midnight. Among the dead are two youths who were dragged over 250 metres by a speeding cement lorry proceeding to Mysuru from Tamil Nadu on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway this morning. The bodies were reduced to mounds of flesh. Traffic on the highway…
Mysuru,: Higher Education Minister G.T. Devegowda (GTD) has said that Chief Minister H.D Kumaraswamy (HDK) will launch the 10-laning of Myusru-Bengaluru Highway next month. Speaking to press persons at Suttur Mutt premises here on Saturday, GTD said that the 10-laning of the highway was a centrally sponsored project, which would facilitate smooth and hurdle-free flow…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Since I wrote three weeks ago, about the pitfalls of upgrading the existing NH 275 that links Mysuru and Bengaluru without changing its present alignment, many readers have sent in their suggestions about how best we should go about connecting the two cities so that this now nightmarish journey…
Mandya: The seven-hour ban on movement of traffic on the Mysuru-Bengaluru highway owing to JD(S) thanksgiving rally addressed by CM H.D. Kumaraswamy in Mandya yesterday had minor effects on the busy road. However, there was no major traffic jams as expected earlier. JD(S) had organised the programme at Sir MV District Stadium in Mandya to…
Mysuru: After the over-enthusiastic Kodagu District Administration ordered chopping and pruning the branches of more than 100 fully-grown trees leaning on the Madikeri-Bhagamandala Road on July 17 to ensure the safety of Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy for his 24-hour visit to the district on July 19, the Mandya District Administration has gone a step ahead…
Mysuru: The Central Government is implementing the ten-lane national highway between Mysuru-Bengaluru and the work will begin from September of this year, said MP Pratap Simha. He was addressing the media at Nanjaraj Bahadur Choultry here recently and said that to release the pressure on the highway, the ten-lane work will begin from the junction…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Yes, that is going to be the new name of the now ‘not-so-good-old’ Mysore-Bangalore road that we have all been driving on all these years. The debate on whether we should or should not widen the existing road between Mysuru and Bengaluru seems to have started, at least on…
Bengaluru: Public Works Department (PWD) Minister H.D. Revanna yesterday said that the State Government had acquired 64 percent of the land required for the 10-lane Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway project. The project, once completed, is expected to cut travel time between Bengaluru and Mysuru to 90 minutes from an average three-and-a-half hours. Replying to MLC Sandesh Nagaraj’s…
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