Srirangapatna: A youth from Mysuru was killed on the spot, when another car coming from Bengaluru side jumped over the road median on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway and rammed into the car the youth was travelling near Srinivasa Agrahara in the taluk yesterday. Police said that three other occupants of the car have sustained serious injuries and…
Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari announces in Rajya Sabha New Delhi: Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has announced that the Centre has initiated a pilot project for a GPS-based tolling system on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway and aims to launch the technology before announcing the Lok Sabha polls. In a written response to a…
Lady employee lodges complaint against hotelier Mysore/Mysuru: A former lady employee of a private hotel on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway has lodged a Police complaint against one Preetham Puranik, in-charge of managing the hotel for allegedly assaulting her sexually after promising to marry her and also against his father Krishnadas Puranik, owner of the hotel, for reportedly…
Mysore/Mysuru: Tipu Kannada Rajyotsava Vedike hosted a grand celebration of Kannada Rajyotsava and Tipu Jayanti last evening at the Milan Function Hall on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway. The flag hoisting ceremony was conducted by Narasimharaja MLA Tanveer Sait and MLC A.H. Vishwanath. Following this, students from Sheikh Public School sang the State Anthem, adding to the…
We must admit our lack of competence in development of Highways and Expressways By V. N. Prasad Recently, I saw a video titled “China’s mind-bending mega bridge: A magical journey on the world’s most complex overpass.” It is worth watching a million times. Road traffic converging at a junction is so beautifully (I mean technically)…
Mysore/Mysuru: Two youths from Kerala were killed on the spot after the bike they were riding rammed into a canter vehicle from behind near Kalasthawadi on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway yesterday morning. The deceased have been identified as P.S. Nithin (21) of Edakkara town in Mallapuram district and Shaheen Shajan (21), a BSc Nursing student from Tiruvananthapuram…
Flyover in approval stage, NHAI to take up works: MP Mysore/Mysuru: In an attempt to ease the perennial traffic bottleneck on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway Ring Road junction (Kempegowda Circle) near Manipal Hospital, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha inspected the stretch this morning. He was accompanied by PWD, Police and other officers. The MP said that the…
Length of medians reduced to enable movement of more vehicles Mysore/Mysuru: The City Police have found a stop-gap solution to prevent the frequent traffic snarls at the ever busy Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway Ring Road junction (Kempegowda Circle) near Manipal Hospital. The jurisdictional Narasimharaja (NR) Traffic Police today started widening the Circle by removing and reinstalling the…
Mandya: Occupants of a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) had a miraculous escape when the SUV in which they were travelling to Mysuru toppled on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway near Hosa Boodanuru village yesterday morning. It is learnt that the Toyota Fortuner SUV with four occupants from Bengaluru, was proceeding from Bengaluru to Mysuru and when it neared…
Mysore/Mysuru: Following a severe backlash from the general public over the decision of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to hike the toll fee on the newly opened Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway by 22 percent (on 59-km Nidaghatta-Bengaluru section), the NHAI has revoked the order in the same speed. B.T. Sridhar, Project Director of NHAI, told SOM…
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