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Karnataka: JDS candidates list in second week of April

Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda-led JDS on Sunday said the party would announce its list of candidates for the May 5 Karnataka assembly elections by the second week of next month. ...  

Cash-for-bail scam: Court grants bail to 2 accused

Hyderabad: A local court on Thursday granted bail to two accused in the cash-for-bail case involving former Karnataka Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy. Suspended CBI court judge Talluri Pattabhirama Rao's son T Ravi Chandra and lawyer T Aditya, facing charges of conspiring with others to secure bail for Reddy in Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case, were given bail by Anti-Corruption court in Hyderabad. The court asked them to...  

Cash-for-bail scam: Sreeramulu appears before ACB

Hyderabad: BSR Congress founder B Sreeramulu on Tuesday appeared before the Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau on Hyderabad in connection with the ongoing probe in the cash-for-bail scandal involving jailed former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. Sreeramulu, a Bellary (Rural) MLA and close associate of Janardhan Reddy, was served notice by the ACB which sought to record his statement in connection with the bail scandal case. In its remand report submitted...  

Cash-for-bail: Another K'taka MLA named in ACB report

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh ACB, probing the cash-for-bail scam involving jailed former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, on Tuesday named his close associate and yet another MLA of that state B Sreeramulu, of playing a role towards securing Reddy's bail. In its remand report submitted in a court in Hyderabad after arresting BJP's Kampli MLA TH Suresh Babu in the case, the ACB has claimed that further investigations had revealed that...  

Another Karnataka MLA named in cash-for-bail

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau, probing the cash-for-bail scam involving jailed former Karnataka minister G Janardhan Reddy, on Tuesday named his close associate and yet another MLA of that state B Sreeramulu, for allegedly playing a role towards securing Reddy's bail. In its remand report submitted in a court in Hyderabad after arresting BJP's Kampli MLA TH Suresh Babu in the case, the ACB has claimed further investigations had shown...  

K'taka: Sreeramulu backs campaign for BSY as CM

Bangalore: B Sreeramulu, who won the recent Bellary (Rural) Assembly constituency by-election, which he contested as an independent after quitting BJP, on Friday said he supported BJP MPs campaign to reinstate BS Yeddyurappa as Karnataka Chief minister or make him the state BJP President. "I and my supporters fully support Yeddyurappa's reinstatement as Chief Minister. No one should be astonished if he becomes Chief Minister again," he told reporters during...  

Bellary's Reddy Bros in another land scam

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...  

Bellary poll outcome will not affect BJP: Gowda

Bellary: Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Saturday said the outcome of the November 30 Bellary bypoll, where rebel BJP leader and former minister B Sreeramulu contested as an Independent, would not have any impact on his government. "The outcome of the bypoll will not have any impact on the BJP government," he told reporters in Bangalore. He was optimistic that BJP candidate Gadilingappa would win the poll, counting...  

Karnataka urges centre to roll back price hike

Bangalore: The BJP government in Karnataka on Friday ruled out slashing of cess on petrol following the hike in price and urged the Centre to withdraw the price hike. "There is no proposal before the government to reduce cess on petrol. I will write to the Centre urging it to roll back the hike", Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said while speaking to reporters here. "The question of reducing...  

I-T officials raid close aides of Reddy brothers

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...