Defending the Bellary Reddys, BJP leader Dhananjay Kumar said that their arrest is just a routine process in investigations and that no rules have been violated by them. ...
09:28 AM, Sep 05, 2011
JDS leader MC Nanaiah said that all those involved in illegal mining should be punished. ...
09:12 AM, Sep 05, 2011
Former Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde says there may be more arrests, but from Andhra Pradesh as the CBI in Karnataka has not been permitted to investigate illegal mining. ...
08:55 AM, 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
Bangalore: Karnataka BJP heads for another crisis as Sriramulu, a close aide of the Reddy brothers and former state health minister resigned as MLA. Sources have said that more BJP MLAs may follow. Sriramulu submitted his resignation as MLA to the Speaker of the Assembly on Sunday. Sources say Sriramulu is expected to float a regional party and claims support of 15 MLAs. However, Sriramulu said that he will stay...
12:05 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Bangalore: Karnataka BJP seems to be heading for another crisis as Sriramulu, a close aide of the Reddy brothers and former state health minister is most likely to announce his resignation as MLA and also quit the party. Sources say Sriramulu is expected to float a regional party and claims support of 15 MLAs. Sriramulu is not happy with the non-inclusion of the Reddy loyalists in the new cabinet of...
11:06 AM, Sep 04, 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
Bangalore: There is enough evidence in Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde's report to probe the Reddy brothers on charges of money laundering, according to legal experts. This is an embarrassment for the BJP who has made black money its plank. Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa only lost his job, but the Reddy brothers will lose more than just their jobs. The Lokayukta report has accused them of far more serious crimes than...
09:27 PM, Jul 29, 2011
New Delhi: The Lokayukta report indicts not just politicians but also corporate houses and the mining mafia. The report names Jindal Steel among the corporates that should be investigated for giving bribes. The Bellary mining mafia is exposed and it cost BS Yeddyurappa the job of the chief minister. The mighty Reddy brothers might find it tough to recover from here all because of the meticulous probe by Lokayukta Justice...
07:24 AM, Jul 29, 2011
New Delhi: On Friday, with the Lokayukta report naming BS Yeddyurappa, his sons and son-in-law and the infamous Reddy brothers, its official that the state is in the grip of the mining lobby. So how does Karnataka's mining mafia operate. CNN-IBN has been investigating the mining scams at Bellary since July last year. Since 2000, a surge in demand from China has turned Bellary's iron ore into black gold. The...
09:19 PM, Jul 22, 2011
Bangalore: With senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj publicly disowning them and their support base within the party swiftly shrinking, life has come full circle for the Bellary Reddy brothers, whose rise in state politics and the mining business (from just being sons of a police constable) is no less thrilling than a Bollywood flick. Not long ago, the Reddy brothers, due to their enormous money power and aggressive politics, came...
09:31 AM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: Finally the war has begun in the BJP over the controversial Reddy brothers of Karnataka. What, it seems, used to be discussed in hushed whispers within the inner circles of the party has now come out in to the open. Taking on Arun Jaitley during an interview to Outlook Magazine, Sushma Swaraj has seemingly laid the blame for the promotion of corruption in Karnataka - at her Rajya...
07:47 AM, May 28, 2011
Bangalore: A 10-member CBI team has inspected the properties of Reddy brothers on Wednesday. The CBI team has also inspected the controversial mining areas on the Andhra Pradesh-Karnataka border on Tuesday. The team has inspected the Obalapuram mines owned by tourism minister G Janardhan Reddy. The CBI is now looking at the possibility of surveying the other Karnataka mines owned by him. The Reddy brothers have been under the scanner...
01:16 PM, Jan 12, 2011
Bangalore: Income Tax officials on Monday conducted raids at around 60 places in Karnataka, targeting seven ruling BJP MLAs, including ministers G Janardhana Reddy and G Karunakara Reddy. I-T raids were conducted at 60 to 65 places, mainly concentrating in Bangalore and Bellary, said sources in I-T department, whose action comes amidst allegations of horse-trading by both BJP and Opposition. They said that business premises of seven legislators, including mining...
12:20 PM, Oct 25, 2010
Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde was the first one to blow the lid off illegal mining operations in Bellary. ...
09:33 AM, Aug 09, 2010
Illegal mining is a way of life in many districts of Karnataka and especially in the iron-ore rich Bellary district. ...
02:19 PM, Aug 08, 2010
More embarrassment for the BJP in Karnataka as miners claim they get extortion calls from the Reddy brothers. ...
10:49 AM, Aug 05, 2010
This is in protest of illegal mining activities going on right under the government's nose in Bellary. ...
11:09 AM, Jul 25, 2010
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When Karnataka's infamous Reddy brothers make their Diwali gift list this year, they might consider sending a large present to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Had ...
12:00 AM, Jul 23, 2010
Close to Sushma Swaraj, two of the three Redyy brothers and their close aide Sriramulu are ministers in Karnataka. ...
10:53 PM, Jul 19, 2010
