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…
Tree-cutting: Forest Dept. to hear public grievances at Hootagalli on Nov. 28
November 25, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: The Forest Department has proposed to cut down 239 trees of different species and trim two other trees along Mysuru-Hunsur road, on the stretch from Hinkal to St. Joseph’s School, that forms part of NH-275 (Bantwal-Bengaluru), as part of road expansion plans. Ahead of the felling of trees, the Department will conduct a public…
Lucky escape for car driver
October 12, 2021Mysore/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
September 12, 2021Mysore/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
March 20, 2021Gangs 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
March 31, 2019Mysuru: 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
November 21, 2018Mysuru: 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
November 7, 2018Hunsur: 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
July 10, 2018Mysuru: 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
March 5, 2018An 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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