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Over 90 peepal tree plants grow on city’s first flyover at Hinkal
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Over 90 peepal tree plants grow on city’s first flyover at Hinkal

November 29, 2023

Roots threaten to pry apart slabs, damaging structural integrity of a people-friendly project Mysore/Mysuru: Five years have passed since the grand inauguration of the Mysuru-Hunsur Road and Outer Ring Road grade separator at Hinkal which is Mysuru’s maiden flyover. Yet, this facility of development now stands as a testament to administrative indifference and neglect. The…

Lucky escape for car driver
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Lucky escape for car driver

October 12, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: A car driver escaped miraculously, when he lost control of the vehicle and rammed it into a electric pole on Mysuru-Hunsur Road on Sunday midnight. It is leant that a resident of Jayapura in the taluk was proceeding in a Maruti Swift car (KA-09-P-9212) from Paduvarahalli Traffic Signal side towards Kalamandira. When he neared…

Bike rider injured as plant creeper encircles tyre
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Bike rider injured as plant creeper encircles tyre

September 12, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: In a bizarre incident, a bike rider sustained injuries after his bike skidded when a plant creeper encircled a tyre of his two-wheeler while crossing a  road-hump near Manuganahalli check-post on Mysuru-Hunsur Road on Thursday morning.  The youth was reportedly proceeding on the bike from Yelwal to Bilikere when the self-accident occurred  and his…

Kerala jewellery shop owner kidnapped; Rs. 1 crore looted
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Kerala jewellery shop owner kidnapped; Rs. 1 crore looted

March 20, 2021

Gangs that rob gold merchants on Mysuru-Hunsur Road become active Mysuru:  In a daring act of crime, a group of miscreants made away with    Rs. 1 crore cash and a car belonging to a Kerala-based businessman on the busy Mysuru-Hunsur Road on Mar. 16. The sensational incident has been reported late and interestingly, the crime…

Raintree Seedpods, water turn road stretch into biker’s nightmare
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Raintree Seedpods, water turn road stretch into biker’s nightmare

March 31, 2019

Mysuru:  Many two-wheelers are regularly skidding on the Valmiki Road-Hunsur Road junction near a petrol pump on the Mysuru-Hunsur Road. The culprit is a tree — Raintree Seedpod or Ablizia Saman (locally called Chatri Mara or Bage Kai Mara) — whose seeds, when crushed under vehicles and mixed with water, makes the road slippery. This…

Rider injured
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Rider injured

November 21, 2018

Mysuru: A 33-year-old motorcyclist was seriously injured when the two-wheeler he was riding was knocked down from behind by a speeding car near Bilikere on Mysuru-Hunsur Road last night. K.S. Raghu of Kempanahalli in Hunsur and an Infosys employee is the injured. He was returning home on his TVS motorcycle (KA-45-J-807) at around 9 pm,…

Bike rider killed in mishap
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Bike rider killed in mishap

November 7, 2018

Hunsur: A 37- year-old bike rider was killed on the spot, while the pillion rider sustained grievous injuries when the motorcycle they were travelling rammed into a stationary Timber Lorry near Bannikuppe on Mysuru-Hunsur Road late last night. The deceased has been identified as Ataullah Khan, a resident of Mysuru Block in Hunsur town, while…

Engineering student dies in road accident
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Engineering student dies in road accident

July 10, 2018

Mysuru: A 22-year-old Engineering student of a college in city, was killed on the spot, when a lorry ran over him on Mysuru-Hunsur Road near Yelwal on Monday. The deceased student is Yashwanth Kumar, son of Mahadevu and a resident of Nilangala village near Bettadapura in Periyapatna taluk. Yashwanth, who had been to his native…

Hanging in balance
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Hanging in balance

March 5, 2018

An electric pole that was damaged by a speeding truck hanging in balance since four days on the Hunsur-Mysuru Main Road near the Hunsur KSRTC Bus Stand, opposite the Hunsur Town Police Station. The pole was hit by a milk truck in the wee hours of Feb. 28 and neither the City Municipal Council nor…

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