Is Karnataka chief minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda finally going to expand his much depleted Cabinet?

After giving green signal to the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday demanded that the entire 2000 MW power to be generated by its two units be given to the state in view of the "severe power shortage".

Signalling a patch up with her estranged aide Sasikala who was expelled last year from the AIADMK, party supremo Jayalalithaa on Saturday revoked the action, accepting an explanation issued by her.

Karnataka’s tumultuous politics could see a real turn up for the books if the strategy by former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to promote his confidante Shobha Karandlaje as his proxy chief minister comes to fruition.

Chief of the Army Staff Gen. V.K. Singh is set to face fresh trouble with the firm which manufactures Tatra trucks moving the ministry of defence for permission to prosecute him for defamatory remarks of bribery and corruption.

Former Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Thursday added a new twist to the raging debate over corruption in defence deals with his claim that he was offered a bribe when his father H.D. Deve Gowda was Prime Minister in 1996 heading the United Front government.

The Kerala high court on Thursday ordered release of Italian ship Enrica Lexie, detained off Kochi port for over a month in connection with the gunning down of two Indian fishermen allegedly by Marines aboard the vessel.

The Bombay High Court on Friday quashed a lower court order refusing to remand former Congress MLC and a prime accused in the Adarsh Housing scam Kanhaiyalal Gidwani in the custody of CBI.

As part of his relentless campaign to reclaim the post of chief minister, and augment the number of his supporters in the house, former Karnataka chief minister, B.S. Yeddyurappa, has decided to host a tea party on March 30 at his home, for party MLAs and all ministers. “The CM was supposed to host a tea for party MLAs. Since he is not doing it, our leader has planned to host a tea for all the MLAs, MLCs and ministers,” sources said.

In a dramatic development, Sasikala Natarajan, banished by Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa from her Poes Garden bungalow in December, amid allegations that she and her family had misused proximity to the chief minister to gain huge pecuniary benefits, pledged loyalty to akka (elder sister) and said her sole aim was to serve her for ever.