The political crisis in the ruling BJP in Karnataka loomed large with rebel leader and former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa deciding to take a final call on his future political course by today evening.
BJP on Yeddyurappa's revolt 
A special court today rejected applications filed by Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa and her aide Sasikala Natarajan in the wealth case seeking perusal of unmarked documents pertaining to the case.
The special Lokayukta Court today ordered a probe against former Karnataka Advocate General B V Acharya and four others on a private complaint alleging irregularities in an educational trust.
Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar today said he would lead a movement against the proposed Supreme Court guidelines to the media on court reporting which he termed as 'tantamount to another kind of Emergency."
Increasing Talibanisation of Pakistan and shifting of terror focus from AfPak region would pose a serious security threat to India in the next two years, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne said on Saturday.
The death of a 19-year-old Manipuri boy under suspicious circumstances in his college hostel in Bangalore has sparked protests demanding justice for the student with his friends and family alleging that that he suffered fatal injuries in an assault by his seniors.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi's security convoy was led off the pre-decided route in the city on Saturday, allegedly by a traffic police inspector busy on her mobile phone, inviting a backlash from the Special Protection Group (SPG).
Nearly two weeks after the mysterious death of Richard Loitam, a 19-year-old Manipuri student in Bangalore, the police are yet to figure out if it was a murder or an accident.
Amid the mounting pressure for action, police today registered a murder case against two students in connection with the death of Manipuri student Richard Loitam under suspicious circumstances in a college hostel.
After a Manipuri student died under mysterious circumstances last month, another student from the state committed suicide in his hostel room in Bangalore on Thursday night.
An embattled former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa today welcomed the Supreme Court order for a CBI probe into illegal mining and donations received by his family-run trust from mining firms.
A day after the Supreme Court ordered a CBI probe against BS Yeddyurappa in connection with illegal mining, seven ministers loyal to the former Karnataka CM offered to resign, demanding a leadership change.
HT reports.
In an effort to mollify its belligerent former chief minister BS Yeddyruappa and stem the fresh revolt launched by him, Karnataka unit BJP today declared that the party would be with him in this hour of crisis.
Stepping up the ante against chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda, his predecessor BS Yeddyurappa today pressed him to convene the legislature party meeting at the earliest in a virtual endorsement of the demand made by 38 MLAs.
In a major embarrassment for Karnataka’s ruling BJP, disgruntled former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa showered praise on the opposition Congress and its president Sonia Gandhi for supporting leaders in trouble, “unlike” his own party. HT reports. Yeddyurappa praises Sonia, slams BJP 