Karnataka Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde on Tuesday slammed the Lokpal Bill adopted by the Union Cabinet, saying India’s financial growth will “drown” in corruption if it remains unchecked.

Hours before Karnataka Lokayukta Justice N. Santosh Hegde was scheduled to demit office, and in a move that smacked of attempts to stall prosecution, outgoing chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Tuesday filed a petition before him seeking reconsideration of his report indicting him in the illegal mining.

With only hours to go before the crucial BJP legislature party meet to pick a new chief minister, Central leader Rajnath Singh and senior BJP leaders met at a private hotel here to hammer out a consensus candidate.

In fresh trouble for B.S. Yeddyurappa, Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj on Wednesday gave sanction to Lokayukta police to initiate criminal proceedings against him over the report on illegal mining.

D.V. Sadananda Gowda was Wednesday set to be the new chief minister of Karnataka after he was elected leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislature wing, narrowly defeating Jagadish Shettar in secret ballot.

DMK leader M.K. Stalin and around 40,000 of his party cadres were on Monday detained while staging protests in various parts of Tamil Nadu.

The resignation episode of the 10 Telangana Congress MPs will hopefully reach a favourable conclusion on Monday when they meet AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad in New Delhi.

It was a painful, long wait till he made it to the chief minister’s saddle and when he did, he could hold on to the post for only three years and two months, a tenure which was wracked by internal dis

It was a day of rumours, intrigue and high drama despite the fact that Mr B.S. Yeddyurappa had assured everyone that he would resign on July 31.

He ran a grocery store, but his bank account shows astonishing debit and credit, running into crores. K.