Bengaluru-Mysuru highway struggles to enforce ban on two-wheelers and three-wheelers

Bengaluru-Mysuru highway struggles to enforce ban on two-wheelers and three-wheelers

Bengaluru-Mysuru highway. | Photo Credit: M.A. SRIRAM It’s been nearly a year since the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) banned two-wheelers, autos, tractors, non-motorised vehicles, multi-axle hydraulic trailer vehicles, and quadricycles from the main carriageways of the Bengaluru-Mysuru access-controlled highway. Despite the ban, two-wheelers and three-wheelers continue to be seen on the highway. Other … Read more

Three killed in car-bus collision on Hyderabad-Srisailam highway

Three killed in car-bus collision on Hyderabad-Srisailam highway

Three persons were killed on the spot after the car they were in collided head on with a bus on the Hyderabad-Srisailam Highway on Friday morning.   Three friends: 35-year-old Shiva Krishna Varaprasad, 26-year-old Megavat Nikhil, an interior designer and 45-year-old Bura Mandeep, working in an automobile company, were killed in the accident at 6.30 … Read more

12 commuters injured after bus hits empty lorry on Chennai-Bengaluru Highway near Ambur

12 commuters injured after bus hits empty lorry on Chennai-Bengaluru Highway near Ambur

Passengers were injured when the private bus hit a lorry on the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway on Thursday, March 7, 2024 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement More than 10 commuters were injured after a bus they were travelling hit an empty lorry from the rear, in Marapattu village near Ambur town in Tirupatur on the Chennai – … Read more

Four persons killed as APSRTC bus rams into them on National Highway in Kakinada district

Four persons killed as APSRTC bus rams into them on National Highway in Kakinada district

KAKINADA Four persons, including a helper in a local temple, died on the spot, reportedly, after an Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) bus rammed into them near Padalamma temple on the National Highway under Prathipadu police limits in Kakinada district, in the early hours of February 26. The accident occurred at around 4.30 a.m. … Read more

Hill highway project will improve tourism prospects: Minister

Hill highway project will improve tourism prospects: Minister

Minister for Public Works P.A. Mohamed Riyas on Monday said the completion of the ongoing hill highway project in Kozhikode would help improve the tourism prospects of the district. Opening the construction works of the Thalayad-Malappuram stretch of the road project at Kattippara, he pointed out that the State government had already succeeded in completing … Read more

Shortage of river sand hits elevated corridor work on Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway in Ambur

Shortage of river sand hits elevated corridor work on Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway in Ambur

A view of the elevated corridor on the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway (NH 44) near Ambur in Tirupattur district. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT For more than a month, work on the elevated corridor along the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway (NH 44) near Ambur in Tirupattur has been temporarily stopped by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which executes the project … Read more

Chief Minister to inaugurate renovated temple tank, widened highway in Tiruvannamalai on October 22

Chief Minister to inaugurate renovated temple tank, widened highway in Tiruvannamalai on October 22

A stretch of the widened four-lane Cuddalore-Chittoor Road in Tiruvannamalai. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Chief Minister M.K. Stalin will inaugurate the renovated tank of Arunachaleswarar temple and the widened four-lane Cuddalore-Chittoor Road during his two-day visit to Tiruvannamalai on October 21 and 22. Officials of the State Highways Department, which executed the widening work … Read more

Stretch of highway in California named after slain Indian-origin police officer

Stretch of highway in California named after slain Indian-origin police officer

Signage proclaiming the “Corporal Ronil Singh Memorial Highway” stands at Highway 33 and Stuhr Road. | Photo Credit: PTI To honour a fallen national hero, a stretch of a highway in the US state of California has been named after 33-year-old Indian-origin police officer Ronil Singh who was shot and killed by an illegal immigrant … Read more