New Delhi: A Supreme Court appointed committee on illegal mining in Karnataka has submitted its final report. The committee has come down heavily on mining companies and recommended that their licenses be cancelled. Most of the violators are C-category mines. The decision could have some political repercussions too, as many of the mines have links to politicians in Karnataka. Some of the mines are owned by the associates of the...
06:27 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Nothing is ever certain in an ever changing world and most of all political power. If there was any doubt about that then 2011 dispelled it completely. In more ways and more cases than one it was truly the year of the fall of some of South India's most powerful regional chieftains. Starting with Karuna, to Yeddy and the Reddys in Karnataka to Jagan Mohan in Andhra Pradesh, they all...
04:50 PM, Dec 15, 2011
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday informed a local court that it was ready for trial in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) illegal mining case involving former Karnataka tourism minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and others. The central agency that filed a chargesheet in the case against Reddy, who owns Obulapuram Mining Company and four others on December 3, informed the Special Court for CBI cases that it...
09:01 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Bangalore: The National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR), an NGO, on Friday claimed to have unearthed a land scam involving the Reddy brothers and former minister B Sreeramulu illegally acquiring about 251 acres of agricultural land in and around Bellary town. "Prima facie, we have found serious illegalities and irregularities committed by Reddy brothers and Sreeramulu in acquiring agricultural lands in violation of various land norms including Land...
09:44 PM, Dec 09, 2011
Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in deep trouble in Karnataka after its rebel leader Sriramulu's landslide victory in the Bellary bypoll. Sriramulu, a supporter of Reddy brothers, has now claimed the support of 14 MLAs in the state, and has indicated that he may float his own party. "I have the numbers to form a new party. I will give you more details after a short while," he...
01:25 PM, Dec 08, 2011
New Delhi: Independent candidate B Sriramulu on Sunday won Bellary (Rural) Assembly bypoll in Karnataka by more than 47,000 votes. It's a huge blow for the ruling BJP in Karnataka as the rebel candidate and Janardhana Reddy aide B Sriramulu won the crucial bypoll by a huge margin. Sreeramulu, a close associate of jailed mining baron and former minister G Janardhana Reddy, secured 74,527 votes and retained the seat which...
11:37 AM, Dec 04, 2011
Bangalore: Bellary has turned into a fortress ahead of Tuesday's bypoll and it's a litmus test for the BJP as many of the party MLAs have been supporting independent candidate Sriramulu who's being backed by the Reddy brothers. Sriramulu, a close aide of the Reddy brothers and a former BJP minister resigned three months ago. It's also the first poll after the illegal mining expose in Karnataka, and a lot...
07:29 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Bellary (Karnataka): Mining barons Reddy brothers seem to be preparing for a complete break from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka with their associate B Sriramulu on Monday announcing plans for a new outfit. The brothers, pampered by the party till recently, are already taking on the BJP in their stronghold Bellary in the November 30 bypoll to the state assembly from Bellary Rural constituency. The iron ore...
06:40 PM, Nov 28, 2011
BELLARY: With just two days to voting, the electioneering in the Bellary Rural constituency has reached its peak. On Sunday, the penultimate day of public campaigning, all three parties " BJP, Congress and Independent candidate Sriramulu " appeared to be in a hurry to make most of the remaining time by reaching out to as many voters as possible. While Sriramulu carried on with his usual style of functioning "...
11:24 AM, Nov 28, 2011
Bangalore: Locked in a supremacy battle in Karnataka's iron ore-rich Bellary district, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the rich and influential Reddy brothers, the mining barons who were the party's financial sinews in the state not too long ago, are playing a blame game on who is responsible for the area remaining economically backward and its people grindingly poor. While trying to outwit each other in the Nov 30 bypoll...
02:15 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Bangalore: Karnataka's faction-ridden ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday decided to unitedly take on Reddy brothers for propping up their own candidate in the November 30 bypoll to an assembly seat from their stronghold Bellary. Senior party leaders, ministers and parliament members met in Bangalore and succeeded in persuading former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa to campaign for the party candidate P Gadilingappa against Reddy brothers' nominee, former health minister...
04:58 AM, Nov 18, 2011
Bangalore: Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will on Thursday decide its strategy to defeat the rebellious Reddy brothers in their stronghold of Bellary in the Nov 30 assembly bypoll in the area. The dominance of the Reddy brothers, or rather the BJP's dependence on them in the iron ore rich district, was such that the party was left with no office premises after the mining barons propped up their...
05:07 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Bangalore: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) unending troubles in Karnataka are a lesson on public life: it does not pay to gloss over immoral acts on the specious plea that they are not illegal. The result of the BJP preferring legality over morality is pampering of two of its most powerful leaders in the state - B.S. Yeddyurappa, because of his long-standing association with the party and organising ability,...
12:54 PM, Nov 14, 2011
Bangalore: In what could be the first indication of a battle between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Reddy brothers, former Karnataka health minister B Sriramulu has decided the contest the Bellary bypoll as an independent candidate. The BJP is facing one of its toughest political battles just a day after the release of former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa. Sriramulu, a close aide of the mining Reddys, has...
08:46 PM, Nov 09, 2011
Another Illegal mining scam, worth Rs 3 lakh crore, has been unearthed in Orissa's Keonhjar district. ...
11:10 PM, Sep 27, 2011
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