Can mining baron's new party make a dent in K'taka poll?

His outfit may be taking baby steps in Karnataka's political arena dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular but mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy is......

Mining baron Janardhana Reddy arrested in ponzi scam case

IMAGE: Mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy arrested in the multi-crore Ponzi scheme case in Bengaluru on Sunday. Photograph: PTI Photo Mining baron and former Karnataka......

Sekhar Reddy: From small-time contractor to mining baron

People who observed the way his wealth and political clout grew say his fortunes hchanged once the ruling establishment handed him control of sand quarrying in Vellore and Kanchipuram districts......

G Janardhana Reddy, still a force in Karnataka politics

The wedding celebrations show the controversial mining baron retains influence over elected representatives, whichever party is in power, reports Raghu Krishnan from Bengaluru. Gali Janardhana......

Why Bellary is to bleed again

It’s sleepless nights again for the residents of Kamtur village. Located on the fringes of the Kumaraswamy forest range, one of the six iron ore-bearing mountaintops in Karnataka’s......

Bellary: How unrestrained mining turned it to dust

Karnataka's Lokayukta Santosh Hegde's report is a sordid story on the rise of India's mining poster boy, Bellary. The protagonists of the script, the Reddy brothers, used muscle and money to......

Of Naxals and rich land of the poor

India's mineral-rich areas have the largest number of poorand are Naxal-affected -- there's an obvious story here, says Sunita Narain. Take a map of India. Now mark the districts of the country in......

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