Row erupts after Congress releases 'bribery' sting featuring Reddy aide; BJP scoffs

A huge row was created on Thursday when a ‘sting’ video showing a Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party leader allegedly trying to bribe a kin of a former Chief Justice of India to get a......

Janardhana Reddy has nothing do with the BJP: Shah

The BJP would win at least 130 seats and there is no need to take any party's support, Shah claimed. IMAGE: BJP president Amit Shah speaks during an election campaign rally in Tumakuru,......

Yeddyurappa defends decision to give tickets to Reddy brothers

Defending the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership’s decision of giving tickets to mining barons,the Reddy brothers of Ballari and their associates, BJP’s chief ministerial candidate......

Why is BJP's most vocal leader quiet these days?

She looks like everyone's favourite aunt. She talks like one. But she had become a minister at 25 and gone on to do highly successful stints as Union parliamentary affairs minister, health minister......

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......

Karnataka govt plans to rein in mining lobby

The Karnataka government has decided to tighten the reins of the mining lobby in the state under the leadership of Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa. On Tuesday, the Karnataka Assembly unanimously......

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......