The BJP legislature party, which will meet here at 5 pm on Friday at a private hotel, is all set to pick chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa’s successor.

Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa finally buckled under pressure from the BJP leadership, tendering his resignation to party president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday evening, 24 hours after a meeting with top party figures in New Delhi ended in acrimony.

Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa arrived in New Delhi in a defiant mood on Wednesday night on being summoned by the BJP high command after he was indicted and action recommended against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act by state Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde in his second report on illegal mining in Karnataka.

Embattled Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who landed in Bengaluru airport after a week in Mauritius, told the waiting media that he would not step down.

Former communications minister A. Raja on Monday tried to involve Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union home minister P. Chidambaram in the 2G case, telling a court that both the Prime Minister and Mr Chidambaram (when he was finance minister) were aware of the sale of equity by spectrum licencees.

Virtually dismissing the Lokayukta report as nothing but “allegations”, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa claimed he was “innocent” in the entire mining activity, and that there was “no direct link” between the money paid to a trust run by his sons and himself, even as state governor H.R. Bhardwaj promised he

Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh’s name has once again surfaced in the cash-for-votes scam. Mr Sanjeev Saxena, arrested by the Delhi police crime branch on Sunday over the 2008 cash-for-votes scam, is believed to have pointed fingers at Mr Singh in this connection. Samajwadi MP Reoti Raman Singh is likely to be

The toll in the Kalka Mail derailment in Fatehpur on Sunday has gone up to 68 with some more bodies still expected to be trapped under the debris.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday afternoon left for a three-day visit to Jangalmahal. It is her first visit to the Maoist-hit West Midnapore and Bankura after becoming the chief minister. Elaborate security measures have been made to ensure her safety. Establishing peace in Jangalmahal and resolving the contentious dispute in the

In possibly the biggest such political action in India, 83 state legislators, including 11 state ministers, from the Congress, Telugu Desam, Praja Rajyam and Independents, and 10 MPs submitted their resignations as planned on Monday, plunging Telangana into turmoil and the Andhra Pradesh government into a crisis.