Bangalore: The Supreme Court will on Thursday decide on the fate of mines barred from mining iron ore in Karnataka's Bellary district. A three-member bench will deliver the judgement on a PIL filed three years ago seeking a ban on illegal mining and also a high level inquiry into the role of politicians.
A Central Empowered Committee had also recommended a ban on mining. The PIL's petitioner had named top leaders from Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal Secular.
While mining barons, the Reddy brothers, are already facing a CBI probe, former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa is out on anticipatory bail in a related case.
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09:11 AM, Apr 18, 2013
BJP leader Bhupender Yadav said that Corruption done by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot needs to be investigated. ...
10:59 AM, Mar 23, 2013
The Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, on Friday cancelled the sandstone mining contracts awarded to his relatives. An IBN Network expose had revealed that the contracts had been awarded to Gehlot's relatives at throwaway prices. Although Gehlot had denied the allegations, he ordered a probe nonetheless, vowing to quit if the charges were proven true. ...
11:31 PM, Mar 22, 2013
After an IBN7 report showed how sandstone mining licences were given to the relatives of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot at throwaway prices, sources say the Rajasthan Assembly Speaker is likely to announce a probe team to look into the irregularities. ...
12:05 PM, Mar 07, 2013
A IBN7 expose revealed that Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot allegedly awarded sandstone mining contracts to his close relatives at throwaway rates. ...
10:35 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The PM tore into the main opposition party on Wednesday, criticising its India Shining campaign and saying that UPA had achieved higher growth than the NDA. ...
10:03 PM, Mar 06, 2013
There was ruckus in Rajasthan Assembly on Wednesday after IBN Network exposed favouritism by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in granting mining leases to his relatives. Fearing disruption and political embarrassment, Gehlot agreed to a probe led by the opposition leader. ...
08:25 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has now ordered a probe after a sting by IBN7 showed that sandstone mining licenses were given to his family members at throwaway prices. The exclusive report on mining license irregularities in Rajasthan was aired on Wednesday. The report showed how most of the 37 sandstone mining licenses were given to the CM's family members. ...
07:32 PM, Mar 06, 2013
There has been uproar in the Rajasthan Assembly as a fallout of an IBN7 revelation on Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's alleged involvement in the sand mining scam. The IBN7 report showed how Gehlot's family were allotted most of the 37 sandstone mine contracts at throwaway prices. ...
11:12 AM, Mar 06, 2013
As Ashok Gehlot enters his final year as the Rajasthan Chief Minister, he is at the centre of a major sandstone mining scam. He is facing allegations of awarding contracts to his close relatives at throwaway rates. He allegedly even altered mining contract norms in 2012. ...
09:20 AM, Mar 06, 2013
In a relief to former Chief Minister and KJP leader BS Yeddyurappa, Karnataka High Court on Tuesday quashed a land grab complaint against him. ...
06:38 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi was grilled by police in Tamil Nadu's Madurai in connection with illegal mining of granite by a company in which he was a director. ...
12:58 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Madurai police on Wednesday issued summons to Union Steel Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi once again in connection with the multi-crore granite mining scam. ...
01:43 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Panaji: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is working for a mining company interested in extracting ore from a land owned by a Portuguese national, which has been declared an evacuee property, the Goa Congress alleged on Wednesday. Party spokesperson Reginaldo Lourenco was speaking to reporters at the state Congress headquarters, a day ahead of party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's visit to the state. Lourenco, however, did not name the mining company....
02:26 AM, Dec 20, 2012
Panaji: The issue of resumption of mining in Goa will be raised at the National Development Council (NDC) meet in the national capital December 27, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Monday. "On the 27th meeting of National Development Council, I am going to raise the issue of mining with the PM," Parrikar told reporters in Panaji. Parrikar said the ban on mining imposed by the Supreme Court (SC) was...
05:38 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Bangalore: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wednesday attached assets worth Rs 884 crore of the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) of former Karnataka minister and jailed mining baron G Janardhana Reddy under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The ED investigated violation of the PMLA by OMC on the basis of the first information report (FIR) registered by the anti-corruption branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the Indian...
11:34 AM, Dec 06, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP-led Goa government, under pressure to act against those responsible for Goa's mega mining scandal, has said in a letter to a Supreme Court-appointed panel that it would be filing first information reports (FIRs) against former chief ministers Pratapsingh Rane and Digambar Kamat for their alleged complicity in the mining scandal. Drafted by Chief Secretary B. Vijayan, the 68-page letter says decisions taken by Rane and Kamat...
12:24 PM, Dec 04, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Two days after CNN-IBN exposed how recovery of fines amounting to thousands of crores are due from miners who did excess mining, pressure is building on the Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha. Union minister Srikant Jena is now demanding the Chief Minister's resignation. The Odisha government has been forced to admit that loss to the state due to excess mining amounts to Rs 67,900 crore. Of this the biggest...
07:42 AM, Nov 06, 2012
Union Minister Srikant Jena on Monday demanded resignation of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik alleging his 'direct' involvement in the multi-crore mining scam in the mineral-rich state. ...
07:55 PM, Nov 05, 2012
In 2011, CNN-IBN exposed a decade-long iron ore mining scam in Odisha's Keonjhar. Here's an exclusive follow-up investigation. ...
07:50 PM, Nov 05, 2012
