Mangalore: Congress workers celebrated a ‘Bangalore Vijayotsav’ in city on receipt of Lokayukta’s report, and the news of BJP high command asking CM Yeddyurappa to step down. They burst crackers and gave away sweets to each other on Thursday at the DKCC office. They also raised wild slogans against BJP leaders indicted by Lokayukta’s bulky […]

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Wednesday that it would take a call on Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa continuing in office after going through the ”voluminous report” of the Lokayukta on illegal mining. As speculation intensified on whether Yeddyurappa, the BJP’s first chief minister in the country’s south, would remain in office, […]

Bangalore: Amid continuing uncertainty about the fate of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, Karnataka Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde Wednesday submitted his report on illegal mining. The report, said to be around 9,000 pages, was handed over by Lokayukta registrar Kunhi Nair Moole to state Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath at the Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat, about […]

Bangalore: It would be folly to expect a doughty fighter like B.S Yeddyurappa that he would resign after the final report on illegal mining activities in state was officially submitted to the state govt. by Lokayukta (Santhosh Hegde) on the eve of his retirement. Under any circumstances, the CM is the last man to resign, […]

Bangalore: Justice N Santosh Hegde stated here on Monday, that his final report on illegal mining matters in the last decade, would be ready by Wednesday for presentation to the state government on July 27 hopefully. The final report is under close scrutiny, in view of a partial leakage in press earlier, he explained. The […]