Shivamogga: The ongoing efforts by Shivamogga City Corporation and local traffic police to reclaim footpaths and clear unauthorised roadside encroachments have picked up significant speed after nearly two years of persistent challenges. Due to the city’s densely populated commercial core and narrow roadways, managing pedestrian pathways and maintaining smooth vehicular movement have long posed a…
The narrow, rocky Devdurg–Vengalapura road, in Raichur, passing through a hill stretch has prevented buses from operating on the route Raichur: Sixteen villages in Raichur district are not without bus connectivity due to narrow roads, incomplete bridges and poor infrastructure, forcing many students to walk 2 to 4 km every day to reach schools and…
Gopala Krishna Baliga, engineer-turned-businessman, and his wife Radhika,63, from Mangaluru, completed a 12-day road trip across Iceland, driving 2,450 km in June Mangaluru: His first drive outside India was anything but a leisurely spin. At 67, Gopala Krishna Baliga found himself behind the wheel of a left-hand-drive camper van, negotiating Iceland’s windswept roads, narrow bridges…
Chennai: Two students—one studying in a college, and the other in a school—were killed in two separate road accidents near Tambaram on Friday evening, triggering public protests over the roadside encroachments, narrow roads and poor road discipline in the area.In the first incident, Kaushika, 21, a student of a private college near Kattankulathur, was riding…
