Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa will not step down from office as the payments into his sons’ Prerana Trust were completely above board and made through cheques, sources close to the chief minister insisted.

Will the incumbent Lokayukta’s term, which ends in the next 10 days, come to the rescue of the Karnataka chief minister, who has been indicted in the Lokayukta’s second mining report for alleged involvement in large-scale illegal mining?

Six months after he was allegedly gunned down in Pakistan, India is yet to receive a confirmation on the death of country’s most-wanted terrorist, Riyaz Shahbandari better know as Riyaz Bhatkal. Top intelligence and

Terror suspect Mohammed Niaz, hailing from Melur in Madurai district, who was arrested earlier this month in Paris for his alleged links with the extre-mist group in Iran — ‘Jundallah’ (Soldiers of Go

Terror suspect Mohammed Niaz, from Melur in Madurai district, who was arrested earlier in May in Paris for his alleged links with the extremist group in Iran, ‘Jundallah’ (soldiers of God), is a relative of a former senior intelligence officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, Mr Mohammed Qasim. The officer retired in 1994 as deputy inspector-general of police (intelligence).

Twenty years after the assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi on May 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu by Dhanu, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s female assassin, a new controversy has t

Former food and civil supplies minister Hartalu Halappa has been charged for raping the wife of his friend. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which was probing the rape and other criminal charges against Mr Halappa, on Wednesday filed the chargesheet against him under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code.

With the Supreme Court striking down the appointment of the incumbent Central Vigilance Commissioner P.J. Thomas on charges of corruption there’s a strong possibility of former state director-general and inspector general of police, R. Srikumar, taking over the top seat on the national anti-corruption watchdog.

In a major breakthrough for the Bengaluru police, Kerala PDP chief Abdul Nasser Madani, accused in the 2008 Bengaluru serial blasts case, has reportedly confessed to the police that he knew the prime accused in the case, Thadyanthavide Naseer, and had spoken to him several times.

Bengaluru: The Opposition leaders in Karnataka have brought the Legislature to a halt demanding a CBI probe in the estimated Rs 20,000 crore illegal mining scam but are they