Anil Kumar Sastry

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Anil Kumar Sastry

The National Highways division of Karnataka Public Works Department has began pushing the steel bow-string bridge girder over the Mangaluru-Mumbai railway line at Indrali in Udupi for construction of an additional rail-over-bridge on Malpe-Tirthahalli National Highway 169A. As on April 16, the girder was pushed to a distance of 30 metres at a rate of about 2m per hour, from Manipal-side, said a senior NH-PWD engineer overseeing the project.

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Anil Kumar Sastry

Notwithstanding coastal Karnataka being known for harsh summer and torrential rains, none of the important railway stations along the Konkan Railway Corporation network have shelters for foot-over-bridges (FoBs). Highlighting the plight of passengers, particularly women and the elderly, Udupi District Nagarika Samiti pointed out that the absence of shelters on the FoB, as well as the stairway leading to the FoB, often puts pedestrians in a quandary during heavy rains or the harsh summer.

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Anil Kumar Sastry

Whenever it rains heavily on the foot of the Western Ghats in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, residents of Sullia taluk shiver at the thought of remaining without electricity for days together. Because, the 33 kV supply line from Puttur to Sullia passes through forest areas where falling of trees and their branches on supply lines frequently disrupt power supply.

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Anil Kumar Sastry

Notwithstanding its earlier assurances to extend the Yeshwantpur-Mangaluru Junction tri-weekly Gomateshwara and Mumbai CSMT-Mangaluru Junction Superfast Express to Mangaluru Central after commissioning of the additional platforms at the Central, the Southern Railway is not inclined to honour its words. SR’s Palakkad Division that administers Mangaluru Railway Region had been citing ‘platform constraint’ as the reason for not extending the two popular trains to Mangaluru Central for many years.

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Anil Kumar Sastry

The Holy Angels Convent with its beautiful Roman architecture built in 1936 and accommodating the Provincial House of Sisters of Charity of Saints Bartolommeo, Mangaluru Division located at Naguri in the city will be razed to construct a new building to provide decent accommodation to elderly sisters. Located on a sprawling campus away from the hustle and bustle of the city, Holy Angels Convent, Belvedere-Angelore accommodated the novitiate (a place housing nuns who have just entered the order).