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  1. Don’t approve bauxite mining in Vizag

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    / May 27, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Kala Committee has failed to visit the bauxite mining areas of Visakhapatnam as the local tribals organized a bandh against its visit. The only visit that was made by them to the area was in a helicopter, that too reportedly funded by the mining companies from whom the committee...

  2. Raided by CBI, Yeddy applies for bail

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    / May 16, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Things are getting hot under the collar for B S Yeddyurappa. Just a day after he flexed his muscles at the BJP leadership, the CBI raided his and his family members’ residences in Bangalore and Shimoga. In the meanwhile, Yeddy filed for anticipatory bail for himself and on behalf of...

  3. SC panel recommends CBI probe against Yeddy

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    / April 20, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Supreme Court’s appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has recommended a CBI probe against B S Yeddyurappa  for his alleged role in the mining scam. The CEC said that there were gross irregularities in allotments of mining leases by the former Chief Minister and his relatives. Sources said that the...

  4. For who Bellary tolls

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    / December 4, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir Turning over a new leaf. That is probably happening literally in Bellary, I had reckoned when I travelled there soon after the Supreme Court had ordered a blanket ban on mining and transport of iron ore in the region in July. The contrast between the old and...

  5. Is CBI pursuing a hidden agenda?

    Posted by A. Saye Sekhar
    / November 6, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By A Saye Sekhar   What is the mandate of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)?  Is it to pursue the agenda of the Congress? The CBI has always been derisively dubbed as the `Congress Bureau of Investigation’. That’s because there have been several instances where the CBI failed to...

  6. Karnataka’s tragic-comic hero

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    / July 31, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By T S Sudhir Call him star struck or plain eccentric, B S Yeddyurappa took his obsession with Gods, stars and the almanac to a different level. All through his innings as chief minister of Karnataka, Yeddy interpreted the `God’s work is Government’s work’ line that is embossed at the...

  7. Republic of Bellary undermines Republic of India

    Posted by Nara Chandrababu Naidu
    / July 30, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By N Chandrababu Naidu Lessons from Karnataka must be remembered when we are talking about drafting of the Lokpal bill. If the Lokayukta did not have the chief minister in its purview, no one could have questioned B S Yeddyurappa. That is why we say that the PM must be...

  8. Bangalore no longer stands tall

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    / July 4, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Slogan Murugan   Doddabettahalli and Chickabettahalli are two small villages on the Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan Road (his parents live down the road towards Yelahanka) that connects Jalahalli and Yelahanka New Town.   Doddabettahalli’s claim to fame is its elevation. The Betta at 962 meters is officially the highest place...

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