Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said 188 additional Indira Canteens, which offers food at subsidised rates, will be started this year, for the benefit of the people.

Landowners or developers of a layout will not have any right over roads and other services once they relinquish control over it to the civic bodies, the Karnataka High Court said, upholding a judgement of a single judge bench. The Upkar Residences had filed a petition before the single judge bench against Pabba Reddy Kodandarami Reddy of Sree Lakshmi Venkateshwara Towers, Outer Ring Road, Bellandur seeking right of ingress and egress of the public in the approved layout.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday flagged off 262 new modern, life-saving ambulances here to be inducted into the Arogya Kavacha-108 programme, under which people in need of emergency medical services vehicles can book these vehicles free of charge.

Former minister KS Eshwarappa launched a scathing attack on the Congress government in Karnataka, asserting that the release of the caste census would lead to the downfall of the Congress. He accused Siddaramaiah and the Congress of creating confusion around the caste census issue.

The heads of two educational institutions in Afzalpur have been booked by the CID officers for their alleged involvement in a case of KEA question paper leak, and subjected to intensive questioning by the officers about the matter, before being presented before the JMFC Court here.

The High Court of Karnataka has said that a transfer order bearing the signature of the Chief Minister does not become licit, till there is a reasoning recorded to post a lower cadre officer to a higher post.

A 25-year-old employee of a private firm was arrested for allegedly morphing photos of his female colleagues including his girlfriend, police said on Thursday.

Bengaluru: Hearing a contempt of court petition on pending bills not being paid, the High Court of Karnataka observed that, according to the government’s own records, two contractors have committed suicide and this cannot go on.