Santosh Hegde equates mining-hit people with terrorist Dawood ...

Former Karnataka Lokayukta Justice (retd) Santosh Hegde drew flak from the Goa Mining People's Front for insinuating that illegal mining was akin to Underworld activities. "We condemn the statement of Hegde equating us with Dawood Ibrahim. We are the workers ...

Story Summary: The former Karnataka Lokayukta, Mr Justice (retd) Santosh Hegde has welcomed the state government’s approval... PANAJI: The former Karnataka Lokayukta, Mr Justice (retd) Santosh Hegde has welcomed the state government’s approval of ...

The row over former Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde's insinuation that illegal mining was akin to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's dealings escalated with Goa CM Manohar Parrikar calling it "baseless and unwarranted" and also far from reality.

I am in Bellary, infamously referred to as the `Republic of Bellary? by Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde in his report on illegal mining in July 2011. Since Janardhana Reddy's arrest in September that year, the `Republic? has all but collapsed and ...

when a terse letter arrived at the Bengaluru residence of businessman-politician Lehar Singh Siroya. The letter was from Prahlad Joshi, president of the Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party, informing the recipient, a member of the state's ...

If the 2013 Karnataka assembly election has to mean anything, the Congress has to think fresh.Thus far, old habits have been playing out. This, of course, makes the Congress look like it is unprepared.Claimants to the chief minister's post cannot go ...

In choosing Siddaramaiah as its Chief Minister in Karnataka, the Congress party has made a good beginning. The 64-year old Lohiaite socialist scored over several other claimants, notably Union Labour Minister M. Mallikarjuna Kharge and Karnataka ...

'If the BJP government in Karnataka's activities fostered dissidence, the Gadkari era saw the same sin crop up elsewhere, notably in Uttarakhand.' 'Gadkari's leadership saw the BJP drift away from its moral moorings,' argues T V R Shenoy. 2013 is my 48th straight year as a journalist in Delhi. But right now my memory is rolling back the decades, back to when I had been working in the capital for 'just' ten years, specifically to June 12, 1975.May 8, 2013 started with the results of the ...

NO one but the BJP is to blame for its humiliating defeat in Karnataka. When the party won a majority in the state during last elections, party leaders went gaga over it, warning the Congress and other competing parties that their triumph for the ...