Centre to implement GPS-based toll collection system New Delhi: The Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry has finalised a Global Positioning System (GPS)- based toll collection system to ensure seamless movement of vehicles across the country. Toll barriers will cease to exist in the country when this is implemented within the next two years, Road…
Pratap Simha stresses on safety factor along the on-going upgradation of Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway Meets Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, seeks shifting of underpass from Naganahalli to Siddalingapura Mysore/Mysuru: In a bid to provide safe passage to residents of various towns and villages along the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway-275 that is being upgraded to a 10-lane Highway (including…
Mysuru: The Central Government has amended the Motor Vehicles Act removing the mandatory clause of a pass in 8th standard to obtain a Driving Licence (DL) for driving autorickshaw, taxi, lorry and other vehicles. MP Pratap Simha has, in a press release, stated that the amendment in Motor Vehicle (MV) Act was tabled by Union…
New Delhi: Former Congress President and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi, has asked the Union Government if there is a proposal to mediate and find an alternative to lift the night-time traffic ban in Bandipur National Park and Tiger Reserve. In an unstarred question to the Lok Sabha, which was answered yesterday, Rahul Gandhi asked if…
In the wake of the recent rains damaging the Madikeri-Mangaluru Highway with a crack developing on the road near Sampaje, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha submitted a memorandum to Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi yesterday and sought immediate repair of the road along with the construction of a retaining…
New Delhi: To boost the use of electric vehicles, the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has decided to exempt battery-operated vehicles from paying registration fees. The Ministry issued a draft notification in this regard and sought comments from the stakeholders. The exemption will be applicable to all categories of e-vehicle like 2, 3…
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh): Here is a solution at sight for the decades-long vexed Cauvery River Water Dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry. The Centre will soon take up a major project to link Cauvery in Karnataka and Godavari in Andhra Pradesh that will put an end to the imbroglio. Making an announcement…
With Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and his family in Singapore, maybe for health check up or for a New Year’s holiday or for both, the political apple cart is likely to be overturned before the Parliamentary elections in the next five months. The JD(S) and the Congress Coalition Government came to power in the State,…
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari campaigned for Srirangapatna BJP candidate K.S. Nanjunde Gowda at Srirangapatna town yesterday. BJP leader Tejaswini Ramesh and others were also part of the campaign.
Bengaluru: Over ten days after the Supreme Court verdict on the vexed Cauvery dispute, JD(S) patriarch H.D. Deve Gowda yesterday said mere allocation of excess water was not good news for Karnataka as it could neither be diverted beyond the basin nor utilised for crops. He told the media here that though Bengaluru was not…
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