Hyderabad: Former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy chargesheeted in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) "scam" again moved a local court seeking bail on Tuesday, the fourth time since his arrest on September 5. Janardhana Reddy, who owns the OMC, in his fresh bail plea filed in the Special Court for CBI cases in Hyderabad contended that investigation against him has been completed and a chargesheet filed in...
07:49 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed the chargesheet in the Bellary illegal mining case on Saturday. Filing the chargesheet in the CBI special court, the apex investigation agency has charged Gali Janardhan Reddy, Sreenivasa Reddy, VD Rajagopal and the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) under sections 120-B, 409, 420, 468,471 of the IPC and under 13(2) r\w 13(1)(d) of PC Act, 1988. The CBI arrested OMC Director D...
11:00 AM, Dec 03, 2011
Hyderabad: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court on Friday granted bail to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) official Y. Srilakshmi in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) illegal mining case, a day after she was sent to judicial custody. The company belongs to former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, arrested from Bellary in Karnataka Sep 5. Special Court Judge B. Naga Maruti Sarma directed Srilakshmi, under suspension, to give two...
05:19 PM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) Director D Rajshekhar has been arrested in the Bellary illegal mining case on Friday morning. He is the brother-in-law of VD Rajagopal who is already in CBI custody in the same case. The CBI arrested VD Rajagopal, the former vice-chairman and managing director (in-charge) of Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation on November 13 Rajagopal is the third person to be arrested in the OMC...
11:53 AM, Dec 02, 2011
Hyderabad: Senior IAS officer Y Srilakshmi has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday on charges of abusing her official position and granting favours in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case involving former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. Srilakshmi was the Secretary, Industries and Mining during the YSR regime and is charged with allotting licences to Obulapuram Mining Corporation, by flouting rules. She was being questioned...
11:10 AM, Nov 29, 2011
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested senior IAS officer Y Srilakshmi on charges of abusing her official position and granting favours in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case involving former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. She was arrested for role in the criminal conspiracy, for abusing the official position and thereby granting favours to OMC (owned by Gali Janardhan Reddy), said CBI Joint Director (Hyderabad Zone)...
09:56 PM, Nov 28, 2011
New Delhi: Rahul Bhattacharya, author of 'The Sly Company of People Who Care' talks about his book, his literary inspiration and more with CNN-IBN Books Editor, Amrita Tripathi. He also won the Hindu Prize for fiction recently. CNN-IBN: I'm going to start with the question most novelists hate -- How much of this book is you? Insofar as it draws from your experiences living in Guyana for a year, it's...
03:52 PM, Nov 21, 2011
The 'Sly Company of People Who Care' is a book that lives up to its evocative title. Published earlier this year, it's recently won The Hindu Prize for best fiction. A disclaimer at the start -- I've known Rahul Bhattacharya for a few years, meeting him after his first book 'Pundits from Pakistan' was published. But there's a difference between knowing someone socially, and knowing them through their writing, and...
06:09 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Hyderabad: Taking the probe into activities of Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) a step ahead, the CBI on Sunday arrested VD Rajagopal, the former vice-chairman and managing director (in-charge) of Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation. Rajagopal was arrested under various sections of IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act, said CBI Joint Director (Hyderabad Zone) VV Lakshmi Narayana. Rajagopal is the third person to be arrested in the OMC case, after former...
05:56 PM, Nov 13, 2011
Hyderabad: A former Andhra Pradesh government official has been arrested in connection with the illegal mining case involving former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy's mining firm, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Sunday. The CBI on Saturday night arrested VD Rajagopal, who as then director of mines allegedly favoured Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) by granting licences for iron ore mining in Anantapur district bordering Karnataka. The former official...
09:58 AM, Nov 13, 2011
After a lacklustre performance in the last three years in the equity category, HSBC Mutual Fund is gearing up for some serious changes. Tushar Pradhan, the chief investment officer (CIO) of HSBC Mutual Fund, has been given the responsibility to manage the HSBC Equity Fund along with three other equity funds. His task is to make HSBC Equity one of the best performing funds in the country. In 2003, HSBC...
02:12 PM, Nov 01, 2011
Hyderabad: Mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) Managing Director BV Srinivas Reddy, arrested in connection with an alleged illegal mining case, on Monday moved the special court seeking 'special class prisoner status'. The duo, arrested from Bellary in Karnataka by CBI, which is probing alleged illegal mining and irregularities in allotment of mining leases to OMC, have been remanded in judicial custody...
11:33 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: A debut novel won The Hindu's Literature Prize in the 'Lit for Life' literary festival for the second successive year. Rahul Bhattacharya bagged the 'The Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011' for his 'The Sly Company of People Who Care'. The award carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh. In his book 'The Sly Company of People Who Care' Rahul Bhattacharya captures the heady adventures of...
12:50 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Bellary: The CBI is likely to file a chargesheet against the Janardhana Reddy-owned Obulapuram Mining Company in connection with alleged irregularities in the export of iron ore. Reddy is a BJP leader and former state minister. Sources have said that the CBI has found anomalies in the export of iron ore. In its assessment, the OMC was exporting three times the volume iron ore than it claimed. Sources say a...
10:02 AM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: A special CBI court is scheduled to hear the bail petition of former Karnataka Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law BV Srinivasa Reddy. Both were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on September 5 in an illegal mining case. CBI on September 22 had opposed the bail pleas probing "illegal" mining and irregularities in allotment of mining leases to Obulapuram Mining Company...
08:29 AM, Sep 29, 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
CBI arrested former Karnataka tourism minister G Janardhana Reddy after conducting raids at his Bellary residence. ...
01:57 PM, 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
New Delhi: Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma's brutal crime biopic Not A Love Story is a pale shadow of the director's strong narrative of systematic crime and his fascination with the underworld that goes back to his days of 'Shiva'. When he returns as producer with Shabri this week, one can only hope that Varma finds his niche back as the master-teller of the crime story. There is Stanley Kubrick's horror...
05:50 PM, Aug 23, 2011
