New Delhi: In what comes as fresh trouble for G Janardhan Reddy, the Supreme Court on Friday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the linkage of illegal mining in Karnataka's Bellary and Anantpur district of Andhra Pradesh. The apex court also directed the CBI to file its status report on the investigation in Obulapuram illegal mining case. This came after the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) report found...
04:48 PM, Sep 23, 2011
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh police has seized a truck in Anantapur containing three bags of cash totaling approximately Rs 3.9 crores. Sources have said that the truck was headed to Hyderabad from Bellary in Karnataka. Bellary is the mining capital of the South, where the controversial Reddy brothers, who are mining barons, hail from. Janardhana Reddy, one of the brothers and a BJP leader from Karnataka was arrested last week...
08:15 PM, Sep 15, 2011
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) continued questioning former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy for the second day on Wednesday in the illegal mining case. The CBI officials resumed grilling the mining baron and his kin at its office in Koti after the accused were brought back from an undisclosed location amid tight security around 10 am. CBI Joint Director V V Lakshminarayana said...
01:18 PM, Sep 14, 2011
Hyderabad: A Hyderabad court on Tuesday granted the CBI the custody of former Karnataka minister and mining baron Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law BV Srinivas Reddy till September 19. The Bellary Reddys were arrested on charges of illegal mining. The bail plea of the Reddys will now be heard on September 19. Janardhana Reddy and Srinivasa Reddy, MD of Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC), were arrested by the CBI on September...
11:28 AM, Sep 13, 2011
Hyderabad: A special CBI court in Hyderabad on Monday reserved its order on the bail petitions of former Karnataka minister and mining baron Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law BV Srinivas Reddy for Tuesday. The Bellary Reddys were arrested on charges of illegal mining. After hearing arguments of defence counsels and prosecution which went on throughout the day, the magistrate passed orders at 9:15 pm reserving judgement for Tuesday. Janardhana Reddy...
10:11 AM, Sep 13, 2011
Bellary: The CBI on Sunday conducted searches at the residences of two close aides of former Karnataka Minister G Janardhana Reddy in Bellary and seized several documents, official sources said. The 11-member CBI team headed by Superintendent of Police Venkatesh from Hyderabad swooped down on the residence of Gurulinge Gowda, Chairman of the Bellary Urban Development Authority (BUDA) located at Renukacharya Nagara on Sunday morning. The team also conducted searches...
11:01 AM, Sep 11, 2011
Hyderabad: YSR Congress chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy himself is under the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) scanner and his political worries are growing especially because both the principal Opposition party in the State the Teleugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Ruling Congress have now focussed their offensive on allegations of Jagan Reddy's links to the Bellary mining barons. Jagan Mohan Reddy said, "This is all political vendetta. Why did...
08:16 PM, Sep 06, 2011
Bellary: Supporters of the former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy on Tuesday pelted stones at two government offices and forced closure of several shops during the bandh call given by them in the district to protest the arrest of their leader by CBI. Reddy supporters on went on a stone pelting spree, damaging window panes of the Regional Transport Office and Forest Department office near Royal Circle, police said. They...
12:33 PM, Sep 06, 2011
Bellary: Supporters of former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy have called for Bellary district bandh on Tuesday to protest his arrest under the Prevention of Corruption Act. BJP MLA Somalingappa, a close aide of Janardhana Reddy, told reporters that the district will observe a bandh on Tuesday. After a CBI team arrested Reddy and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy, who is also the MD of Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC) owned by...
12:10 AM, Sep 06, 2011
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11:17 PM, Sep 05, 2011
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10:31 PM, Sep 05, 2011
New Delhi: The Reddy brothers of Bellary are known to have strong political clout not just in Karnataka but in Andhra Pradesh as well. Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Jagan Mohan Reddy's father late YSR Reddy had once even reportedly campaigned for the Reddy brothers who were BJP candidates in Karnataka. Now, the arrest of G Janardhan Reddy, observers believe, may be aimed at weakening Jagan who's on the...
09:38 PM, Sep 05, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI has finally begun a crackdown on the Reddy brothers of Bellary. The agency on Monday arrested former Karnataka tourism minister and BJP MLA Janardhan Reddy and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy. The two have been remanded to judicial custody in Hyderabad. Janardhan Reddy, however, insisted that he in innocent. "The truth will prevail," he said. But the CBI believes it has finally nailed the mining mafia. In...
08:36 PM, Sep 05, 2011
Hubli: Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Monday refused to react to the arrest of former tourism minister and mining magnate Janardhana Reddy by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). "I don't want to give my reaction now because Reddy has been arrested by the CBI. I will react only after getting full details," Gowda told reporters here. The CBI on Monday arrested former minister Janardhana Reddy and his...
05:32 PM, Sep 05, 2011
CBI arrested former Karnataka tourism minister G Janardhana Reddy after conducting raids at his Bellary residence. ...
01:57 PM, Sep 05, 2011
Bellary: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested former Karnataka tourism minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy after conducting raids at his Bellary residence. Janardhana Reddy has been arrested on charges of criminal conspiracy and cheating. Srinivas Reddy - the managing director of Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC) which is owned by the former minister - has also been arrested. They have been taken to the CBI court...
07:42 AM, Sep 05, 2011
New Delhi: The mining operations in Karnataka's Bellary district have stopped after a Supreme Court order but nearly 17 lakh workers have been left jobless as a result. They say their cultivable land has become infertile and jobless farmers are dependent on a pittance. Mountains being blasted, iron ore furiously dug up - Bellary district accounted for 20 per cent of India's iron ore. But now instead of the chaos...
07:41 AM, Aug 12, 2011
New Delhi: Documentary Film: "Blood and Iron"; Director: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta; Rating:**** "Scandals like 2G, CWG, etc, lead to a notional loss of money. When you consider illegal mining, there's no comparison because that is the loss of a non-renewable resource that can never be got back," Paranjoy Guha Thakurta thus explains why he made his film, "Blood and Iron", on illegal iron ore mining in Bellary rather than, say,...
01:07 PM, Aug 11, 2011
Bellary: Over 7,000 tonnes of iron ore worth over Rs 4 crore were seized in Bellary in Karnataka on Sunday. The iron ore was being illegally transported in 24 lorries in Sandur in Bellary. This came on a day when BS Yeddyurappa had to step down as Karnataka Chief Minister because of his role in illegal mining in the state. The lorries belong to Tomatro Mining company. The authorities have...
07:38 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Bangalore: BS Yeddyurappa, whom the BJP forced to quit office today, is the third chief minister from Karnataka's Shimoga district not to complete full term. S Bangarappa and JH Patel are the two other leaders who had incomplete terms in office. Bangarappa, who was in Congress, became the chief minister in 1990, but had to quit after his party high command directed to vacate the post in 1992. Patel, who...
05:50 PM, Jul 31, 2011
