With scam-hit Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa reiterating that he would resign Sunday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Central observers Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh on Saturday began seeking party legislators’ views on a successor to form the second BJP government in the state.

Authorities in the US have raided offices of another university, the University of North Virginia’s Annadale campus, on charges of fraud, this time in the suburb of Washington. About 2,400 students were enrolled at UNVA and roughly 90 per cent of them were from India, with 1,500 from Andhra Pradesh. Dozens of officials

Closed-door meetings, a near rebellion, and then a hasty compromise. A day after he offered to resign, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa fought to ensure that his resignation would be on his own terms, and not the party’s.

Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde on Friday denied any wrongdoing in grant of mining leases during the tenure of Mr S.M. Krishna as chief minister.

Beleaguered Karnataka chief minister B. S. Yeddyurappa and his supporters have drawn-up short-term and long term strategies to counter Lokayukta Justice N. Santosh Hegde’s report on illegal mining and senior central leaders of the BJP who have sought the leader’s resignation.

A pall of gloom descended on the over 100 mining fields and steel industry hubs in the district as the Supreme Court’s green bench ordered a blanket ban on mining over the 10,868 hectares of reserved forest land in the district till further orders. “This is the mining industry’s darkest day,” said Bellary-Sandur-Hospet Mine Owners Association secretary Hothur Mohammed Iqbal.

Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Saturday met BJP Central leaders Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh, who continued to exert pressure on him to quit and facilitate smooth election of his successor.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday ruled out allowing scam-hit Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to pick his successor, even as it continued efforts to make him quit without conditions.

DMK president M. Karunanidhi’s son and party Treasurer M.K. Stalin was on Saturday detained by police for staging a road roko in neighbouring Tiruvarur district.

DMK leader and former deputy chief minister M.K. Stalin was briefly detained on Saturday at Tiruvarur in Tamil Nadu during a protest. His detention came on the day two other DMK leaders, including a former minister, were arrested on charges of seizing land, police said.