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
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
Bellary: Obulapuram Mining Company Managing Director Srinivasa Reddy was on Saturday brought to a bank in Bellary by a CBI team for enquiries into his monetary transactions and verify lockers owned by him. Reddy, who is currently in CBI custody for questioning relating to his alleged role in illegal mining, was brought to the city by the investigating agency team from Hyderabad led by its Superintendent of Police Venkatesh, sources...
12:31 PM, Sep 17, 2011
New Delhi: Mining baron and BJP leader Janardhana Reddy's bail application will come up for hearing on Wednesday. The petitions of Reddy and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy will be heard at the special CBI court in Hyderabad. The agency arrested the former karnataka tourism minister and BJP MLA on Monday. Srinivasa Reddy, MD of Obalapuram Mining Company (OMC) was also arrested by the CBI for alleged illegal mining on the...
07:55 AM, Sep 07, 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
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11:17 PM, Sep 05, 2011
Bangalore: BJP President Nitin Gadkari has summoned Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda to Nagpur for discussions on various matters, including the abrupt developments in the state including the arrest of former minister G Janardhana Reddy by CBI. Gowda will leave for Nagpur from Bangalore on Tuesday morning and is expected to return by afternoon, according to his programme schedule released by his secretariat. Gowda, according to sources, will be...
10:47 PM, Sep 05, 2011
On Talking Point, Rajdeep sardesai asks if the Reddy arrest is the tip of a mega mining scam. ...
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
Bangalore: Former Karnataka Lokayukta N Santosh Hegde on Monday favoured handing over the probe into illegal mining in the state to the CBI, maintaining that the Obalapuram Mining Company owned by former minister G Janardhana Reddy indulged in such activity. The former Supreme Court Judge said the CBI move to arrest Janardhan Reddy is not a result of the illegal mining report that he submitted to the Government as Lokayukta...
02:22 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
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday expressed hope that former Karnataka minister Janardhana Reddy, who has been arrested in connection with the mining scam, will come out clean but maintained the whole issue was related to his private business and not to the party. "Reddy brothers are holding the point that they have not violated any rules of mining. We are sure Janardhana Reddy will come out clean...As long as...
10:17 AM, Sep 05, 2011
