Mangaluru: Traffic diversion announced between Pumpwell - Kankanady for seven months
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Mangaluru: The city police have announced temporary traffic diversions between Pumpwell Circle and Kankanady Bypass owing to ongoing road development work, which will continue until April 15, 2026 (seven months).
According to the notification, during the first and second phases of the development work, one side of the two-way road between Karavali Junction and Pumpwell will temporarily operate as a one-way route for vehicle movement. Similarly, the Pumpwell to Kankanady Old Road–Kankanady Junction stretch will also function as a one-way road during this period.
Parking on both sides of these stretches has been strictly prohibited for all types of vehicles.
Vehicles coming from Padil and Thokkottu towards Karavali Junction via Pumpwell Circle must take the Kankanady Old Road, proceed to Kankanady Junction, and then turn right towards Karavali Junction. Vehicles coming from Falnir Road and Valencia Road towards Pumpwell must go straight from Kankanady Junction to Karavali Junction, and then turn right towards Pumpwell Circle.
The notification was issued by the Mangaluru City Police Commissioner, who urged motorists to cooperate and follow the revised routes until the completion of the development work.
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Ex-minister Ramanath Rai hits out at BJP leader Ashoka for ‘irresponsible’ comments on KC Venugopal
Mangaluru: Congress leader and former minister B Ramanath Rai slammed BJP leader R Ashoka for calling AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal an agent of the party high command, and asked if the general secretary and other office-bearers in the BJP were commission agents too.
Rai, who addressed a press meet at the Congress office in the city on Friday, expressed fury over the recent comments of the BJP leader that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was presenting himself in a shameless manner in public life. Ashoka, who is also Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, had said that the Congress government had ‘broken every previous record on corruption-related controversies’.
“Ashoka has spoken with sheer ignorance and displays his lack of maturity, as he often does while facing the media. KC Venugopal has been working at organization of the party and it is unbecoming of Ashoka to criticize Venugopal as he did,” Rai told reporters.
“Being in a responsible position, how acceptable is it for Ashoka to pass disrespectful, random comments about another leader who also holds a responsible position? If KC Venugopal is indeed an agent of the party high command, what should we consider BJP leaders to be? Are they brokers?” he asked
Commenting on Ashoka’s allegations of corruption in the Congress government in Karnataka, Rai pointed out, “The KSRTC land was sold to private parties when he (Ashoka) was transport minister. We can find several such cases across the state, which need to be probed.”
The former minister, however, refused to comment on the incident that occurred at Mangaluru airport during CM Siddaramaiah’s visit to the city recently.
Former mayors Ashraf and Shashidhar Hegde, Congress activists Vishwas Kumar Das, Subhodaya Alva, Shabeer, Baby Kundar, Padmanabha, Nazeer Bajal and Prem were present.
