Mangaluru: The difficulties faced by the residents of Kanakarabettu near Sooterpet, a virtually landlocked island, in getting to the city centre may soon be at an end. The Southern Railway has proposed to build a road connecting the area to the nearest railway underbridge (RuB). Kanakarabettu, which has around 100 inhabitants, is located between the […]

Mangaluru: The wait for residents of South Mangaluru to have an unhindered commute towards Thokkottu and Kerala is likely to get longer as the approach road to National Highway 66 from the Jeppu-Kudpady railway underbridge, on which work has been completed, is mired in controversies. The underbridge is located on Kannur-Mangaluru-Mumbai railway line where the […]

Mangaluru: The Shiradi Ghat is likely to be closed for traffic from November to facilitate the second phase of Mangaluru – Bengaluru national highway development works on the ghat section. The NH division of PWD has plans to commence the work in November and complete it by April next year. However, the division is yet to […]

Mangaluru: The entire stretch of National Highway (NH) 75 connecting the coastal commercial hub of Mangaluru with Nelamangala and further with Bengaluru will become a four-lane road — except for a 26-km stretch of Shirad Ghat. Instead of the initial plan to have a two-lane bitumen road between Gulagalale (between Ballupet and Sakleshpur) and Maranahalli […]

Mangaluru: Work on reconstructing the remaining 13-km stretch of Shiradi Ghat with concrete is likely to commence in December/January, two years after it was stopped. Package 1 of reconstruction of the 13-km stretch of the ghat section was completed in 2015 at a cost of about ₹ 70 crore. Though contract for Package 2 was […]

Mangaluru: Ullal based notorious rowdy-sheeter Kaliya Rafik (35) was brutally murdered by an unidentified gang on Tuesday late night at Kotekkar located on Kasaragod-Mangaluru national highway. An Eicher mini truck was purposefully collided with a Ritz car by which the Kaliya was travelling along with his companion Javed. Knowing threat, Kaliya Rafick was reportedly tried […]

Udupi: The police arrested 67 persons for violating prohibitory orders and protesting against collection of toll about a kilometre from the toll plaza here on Saturday. The district administration had on Friday clamped prohibitory orders under Section 144 of Criminal Procedure Code in a 2-km radius of the toll plaza both at Sasthan and Hejmady […]

Udupi: Tight police security was provided to the toll plaza at Sasthan (Gundmi) in Udupi district on Friday after the district administration permitted Navayuga Company to collect toll. Security was provided to prevent any protest or other problems at the plaza. Since the collection of toll began at midnight on Friday, people around were caught […]

Hejmady: The police arrested 31 persons after they protested against toll collection at the Toll Plaza here on Friday. The protesters, who include leaders and members of Hejmady Nagarika Samiti, have given a call for Udupi district bandh on February 13 on the issue. After the district administration gave its nod on Thursday, toll collection began […]

Udupi: Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Services and Sports Pramod Madhwaraj on Saturday directed the engineers of the Public Works Department and National Highways Authority of India to do a survey and submit a report on the widening (four-laning) work completed on the Hejmady-Kundapur stretch of National Highway 66 within four days. He chaired […]