Mandya: With the ambitious Mysuru-Bengaluru 10-lane Expressway project nearing completion, Congress MLCs from Mandya — Madhu G. Madegowda and Dinesh Gooligowda — have urged Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to name the Expressway after Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar. The MLCs, apart from submitting a memorandum to the CM, have also appealed PWD Minister C.C. Patil, Mandya District…
Tourist rush towards Mysuru, two accidents on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway
December 24, 2022Due to heavy influx of tourists towards Mysuru for Christmas and New Year season, traffic on the 10-lane Mysuru-Benglauru Highway was choked with vehicles at a couple of places this morning. While one side of the road towards Bengaluru was empty, the other side, towards Mysuru was chock-a-block. Traffic was stranded at many places in…
How can entry to Maddur be in Ramanagara district?
December 22, 2022MLC Dinesh Gooligowda raises flaws in Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway in Council New Delhi/Belagavi: Additional underpasses and subways on the Mysuru-Bengaluru 10-lane Expressway for vehicles to move and pedestrians to cross was raised in the Legislative Council yesterday by MLC Dinesh Gooligowda who said that the entry and exit points that have been facilitated at Nidaghatta are…
Name Mysuru-Bengaluru Road as Cauvery Expressway: MP urges Union Minister
December 22, 2022On the lines of Yamuna Expressway, Ganga Expressway and Narmada Expressway Mysuru: With just months left for the inauguration of the long-pending and ambitious 10-lane Access-Controlled Expressway between Mysuru and Bengaluru, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha has urged Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari to name the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway after River Cauvery. The…
Craft villages to come up from Maddur to Channapatna
December 20, 2022DPR to be prepared soon on craft villages, clusters on both sides of Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway Mysore/Mysuru: A day after BJP Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka Lehar Singh Siroya urged the Centre to develop a crafts village similar to Delhi Haat along the Mysuru-Bengaluru expressway to protect the livelihoods of Channapatna toys artisans, officers confirmed to…
Non-visible traffic signages pose risk
December 5, 2022Vehicles come face-to-face, stop haphazardly on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway Motorists fail to observe faded and dusty ‘take diversion’ signboards Mysore/Mysuru: On the busy Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway where the works are in full swing to upgrade the road as a 10-lane Expressway, traffic signboards have faded and have turned non-visible due to dust, causing confusion among motorists. Vital…
Thousands take part in Sankeertana Yatra at Srirangapatna amid tight Police security
December 4, 2022Hanuma Jayanti celebrations at the Fort Town Srirangapatna: The Fort Town of Srirangapatna on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway, seemed to be painted in saffron colour today as thousands of Hanuma Maaladharis (Hanuma devotees), dressed in saffron attire and holding flags, took out ‘Sankeertana Yatra’ in the town as part of Hanuma Jayanti celebrations. The Yatra, which…
Subramanyeshwara Shashti: Lowkey celebrations at Siddalingapura Temple
November 29, 2022No entry for public as temple renovation under progress Mysore/Mysuru: Skanda Shashti of Lord Subramanyeshwaraswamy, a major festival held during Margashira Masa, was celebrated with traditional gaiety and enthusiasm across the city with devotees thronging the temples in large numbers to offer their prayers to the Serpent God. Shashti always used to be celebrated on…
Status of Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway – Srirangapatna bypass to open on Nov. 30: MP
November 19, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: After the second carriageway of 23-km Ramanagara-Channapatna bypass on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Access-Controlled Expressway was thrown open to traffic on Sept. 1, the Srirangapatna bypass will be opened for traffic on Nov. 30. The second phase of the works is under progress and the Srirangapatna bypass will be opened for traffic on Nov. 30, said…
Pedestrian killed as car hits
October 7, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: A pedestrian was killed when a car hit him near K.R. Mills on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway on Oct. 4. The deceased has been identified as H. Chandra (41), a resident of Jyothinagar in Mysuru. On Oct. 4 at about 8.30 pm, Chandra was crossing the road near K.R. Mills when a Toyota Innova vehicle (KA-01-MK-1238),…
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