Bellary Steel

• Karnataka: CBI raids MLA close to Reddy brothers

  The CBI today raided the house of Nagendra, a Karnataka MLA from Kudligi, known to be close to the Reddy brothers - Janardhana and Karunakara. There are also reports that the CBI has gone to the Jindal steel plant for verification of documents connected with the Reddy mines.

• How Reddys made crores through fictitious steel plant helped by YSR

  More skeletons continue to tumble out of the Reddy closet. It has now emerged that Gali Janardhana Reddy, the jailed former Karnataka minister and one among the trio of the powerful Reddy brothers from Bellary, made crores out of a fictitious steel plant aided by former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. Even though the plant neve...

• Karnataka crisis: Indicted Yeddyurappa flies to Delhi

  Two steel trunks packed with 10,000 pages could force BS Yeddyurappa to pack his bags and exit the Chief Minister's office in Karnataka. The trunks contain a report on illegal mining prepared by Santosh Hegde, the state's Lokayukta or Ombudsman. The report directly indicts the Chief Minister and his family, refers to the powerful Reddy brothers fro...

• Indicted for kickbacks, Yeddyurappa heads to Delhi

  Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde's mammoth report on illegal mining - over 10,000 pages in two steel trunks - has been formally presented to the state chief secretary. The report directly indicts Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa; says he and his family are involved in illegal mining, and that between 2006 and 2010 the state lost Rs 16,085 crores be...