Congress leader Siddaramaiah resigned as the chief minister of Karnataka, saying that he was following the party leadership’s decision. “I am making way for a new chief minister,” he added.Siddaramaiah said that he had submitted his resignation letter to the governor’s office and that it would be accepted in due course. He said that the Congress leadership had offered him a Rajya Sabha seat but that he declined it as he wants to remain in state politics.Shivakumar is reportedly expected to become the next chief minister. Read on.The Centre acknowledges discrepancies in the Central Board of Secondary Education’s On-Screen Marking evaluation process and accepts responsibility for them, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said. He said that strict action would be taken against anyone found “intentionally responsible” for irregularities in the process.The on-screen marking system for evaluating Class 12 answer sheets has come under criticism in the past two weeks following complaints about alleged glitches and irregularities during the evaluation process. Several students alleged that scanned copies of answer sheets uploaded by the board did not match their handwriting, raising concerns about possible answer sheet mismatches.However, Pradhan claimed that it is a globally-accepted and “student-centric” system aimed at increasing transparency. He said that experts from the Indian Institutes of Technology in Kanpur and Chennai had been roped in to help the board’s technical team in resolving the glitches. Read on.Retired judge Giribala Singh was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a case pertaining to the alleged dowry death of her daughter-in-law Twisha Sharma. This came a day after the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Wednesday quashed the anticipatory bail granted to Singh by a trial court on May 15 on the grounds that the allegations were against her son.The state government and Sharma’s parents had challenged Singh’s anticipatory bail. The High Court noted that Sharma’s family had also made allegations against Singh.Sharma, a 33-year-old model-turned-actor from Noida, was found dead at her marital home in Bhopal on May 12. While her husband’s family claimed that she died by suicide, Sharma’s family alleged that she was harassed for dowry and murdered. Read on.Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar accused party colleague Kalyan Banerjee of repeatedly verbally abusing her in Parliament, and sought permission from Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to file a complaint against him. She claimed that similar conduct had also been directed at other women legislators.Banerjee asked why Dastidar had not approached the speaker immediately if she believed that he had made disrespectful remarks about her in Parliament.A day earlier, Dastidar resigned from all her organisational posts in the TMC. The four-term Lok Sabha MP also stepped down as the party’s Barasat district chief earlier this week. Read on.If you haven’t already, sign up for our Daily Brief newsletter.