The Central Bureau of Investigation arrested the once powerful mine-baron Gali Janardhan Reddy from his home in the mining hub of Bellary early Monday in connection with alleged illegal mining by his

The early morning, 4.30 am, swoop by the 10-member team of the CBI headed by its joint director Lakshmi Narayan on the homes of former minister and director of the Obulapuram Mining Company, Gali Janardhan Reddy and the company’s managing director B.V. Srinivas Reddy, appeared to have come as a complete surprise to both the local police and the two men.

Proving the adage that in politics there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, the Reddy mine barons-turned-politicians who had removed Ms Shobha Karandlaje from the ministry in a compromise formula worked out with

In what is clearly yet another move to distance herself further from the Reddy brothers, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj has decided not to visit Bellary to perform the Sri Varamahalakshmi pooja this year as she has been doing for over a decade now.

The Supreme Court’s decision to impose a blanket ban on mining operations in the district could badly impact the state’s steel industry which produces about 14 million tonnes of steel a year.

Shaken by the Lokayukta report on illegal mining and its explosive contents, mining barons here are now worried that they could be heading for a CBI investigation on the lines of the 2G spectrum probe.

Soon after Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde releases his final report on illegal mining, the NGO, Samaj Parivarthan Samudaya, which had earlier approached the Supreme Court on the issue, is planning to

The Reddy brothers, ministers in the B.S. Yeddyurappa government, who have had little success in meeting their mentor and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, who has virtually washed her hands off them,