Mangaluru: : Shobha Karandlaje, MP, has urged the Union Minister of Road Transport, Highway and Shipping, Nitin Gadkari, to direct the authorities concerned not to collect toll at the gates at Sasthan (Gundmi) and Hejmady in Udupi district. In a letter to Mr. Gadkari, copies of which were released to the press here on Friday, […]
Mangaluru: “The concerned officials are planning to collect toll at Talapady toll gate without completing even 95% of the national highway expansion related works. If the company in charge for toll collection tries to collect toll then, the Tulunadu Rakshana Vedike with the support of locals will stage protest against toll collection,” said Tulunadu Rakshana […]
Mangaluru: The Forest Department has decided to take action against people who prune or cut off trees near their premises. It is said that in 2012-13, the department had planted about 3,200 saplings on the Mangaluru-Bengaluru National Highway between Padil and B C Road, but now most of them are dead. Sources say that various […]
Udupi: The decision by the Navyug Constructions to introduce toll collection on NH-66 at Sasthana from midnight led the residents of the district stage a rigorous and infinite protest at the toll gate on Tuesday. The agitators who had gathered in large number staged the protest by parking vehicles across the toll gate. They alleged […]
Mangaluru: While the Navayuga Udupi Tollway Pvt., Ltd., was all geared up to collect toll at three plazas on the four-laned National Highway 66 between Talapady and Kundapura from Tuesday at midnight, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) put the proposal on hold temporarily. The concessionaire had issued a detailed advertisement providing details of […]
Mangaluru: Having witnessed the outbreak of coconut black-headed leaf eating caterpillar affecting coconut palms in Mangaluru in the State and Kasaragod district in Kerala, agencies concerned have responded immediately and decided to launch an awareness drive on February 1 for farmers about biological control of the pest. A team comprising scientists from the Central Plantation […]
Mangaluru: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is all set to commence toll collection at the three toll plazas on the four-lane National Highway 66 between Talapady and Kundapura anytime this month. While toll-rate boards have come up at all the three plazas in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, the NHAI project director’s office […]
Mangaluru: Personnel of the Dakshina Kannada district Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday caught Gayathri N. Nayak, Special Land Acquisition Officer, National Highways, Mangaluru, and Tukrappa, Revenue Inspector, Mulki, while they were accepting ₹20,000 and ₹5,000 bribe, respectively, from a land loser. The accused were arrested and produced before a jurisdictional magistrate court which remanded them […]
Kasargod: In a tragic incident four members of the same family lost their lives after a collision occurred between their car and a container lorry near Uppala during wee hours of Wednesday morning. The deceased have been identified as Ram Narayanan (52) from Chelakkara in Trichur, his wife Vathsala (48), children Ranjth (20) and Nithin […]
Mangaluru: The reason behind the repeated postponement of the second phase of reconstruction work on Shiradi Ghat road has now been revealed the contractor has not gathered 70 per cent of the material required for the work nor has he completed the extension of 74 culverts on the stretch. As a result, it is highly […]
