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 ...

Documents reveal that out of the 80 odd mining leases in the Bellary region, at least 45 are raising contracts. Raising contract is an agreement between a mine owner and a third party.

Rahul Baldota grew up in a dusty old mining town, but in privilege. He is the elder son of Narendrakumar Baldota, the Marwari owner of MSPL, Karnataka's Bellary district's largest iron ore mining ...

The probe into illegal mining in the iron ore rich Bellary region of Karnataka has seen the Lokayukta submit and withdraw his resignation, the Chief Minister send in his resignation after three ...

After Bellary, the Supreme Court on Friday banned all mining activities in two more districts in Tumkur and Chitradurga in Karnataka. Industry groups say that the ban on iron ore mining in Bellary ...

The Centre has approved diversion of forest land in Bellary for mining on the condition that the Karnataka government put in place a mechanism to control illegal mining including evidence of ...

Bellary: With the fall of the high and mighty mining barons, this iron rich district, infamously known as the "Republic of Bellary", is going to the Lok Sabha polls bereft of the overbearing ...

Ninety per cent mining in Bellary district of Karnataka is illegal, which has converted the area of green scenic into a war ravaged zone with huge ugly scars, says the Supreme Court-appointed ...

Bellary: A senior officer of the Indian Bureau ... allegedly after refusing to bend to pressure from the coal mining lobby in that state. The missing officer, Ibrahim Sharief (34), the son of ...

Bellary (north Karnataka), May 4: In this mining country, it’s hardly 2008 once more for the ruling BJP. The Reddy barons, who lorded over the region then, were with it and had splashed their wealth ...

The Supreme Court on Friday suspended all mining operations in the Bellary district of Karnataka with immediate effect, a day after state Lokayukta Santosh Hegde submitted a damning report that ...

After Bellary, the Supreme Court on Friday banned all mining activities in two more districts in Tumkur and Chitradurga in Karnataka. Industry groups say that the ban on iron ore mining in Bellary ...