Bellary District

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  COVID-19 Is Like Common Cold: 100-Year-Old Karnataka Woman After Recovery

  A 100-year-old woman from Karnataka's Bellary district has won the fight against coronavirus after testing positive earlier this month.

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  Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients Organise Flash Mob In Karnataka. Watch

  Asymptomatic coronavirus patients organised a flash mob at a COVID-19 care centre in the Ballari district of Karnataka on Sunday.

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  BJP Picks Corruption-Charged Reddy Brother In Karnataka, Says "Compromise"

  The BJP second list of 82 names released this evening contained a surprise candidate -- Gali Somashekhara Reddy fielded from Bellary City -- which drew immediate jeers from the Congress. Fifty-two-year-old G Somashekhara Reddy is the youngest of Reddy brothers, mining barons for whom the iron ore-rich district of Bellary was home turf. State BJP sp...

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  IISc Bangalore, CGWB Enter Into MoA For Ground Water Research

  The study will cover an area of 48000 sqr. kms comprising Chikballapur and Kolar Districts and parts of Bagalkot, Bangalore Rural, Belgaum, Bellary, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Gadag, Gulbarga and Yadgir districts.

• Karnataka: 16 Mining Firms Seek Permission to Resume Operations

  Sixteen mining firms have applied to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, seeking permission to restart their operations in Bellary district, officials said today.

• SAIL-VISL's Karnataka mine caught in tangle

  A 140 hectare area in the NEB range of Bellary district in Karnataka was given to SAIL-VISL for undertaking prospecting or mining operation to SAIL's loss-making unit for 20 years in October, 2011.

• Two-seater plane crash lands in Bellary, no one injured

  A pilot and a businessman today had a miraculous escape when their two-seater plane crash-landed in an agricultural field at Kururgod in Bellary district of Karnataka after developing a snag, a top police official said.

• Marathon prayers for Janardhana Reddy's early release from jail

  Dozens of Hindu priests conducted marathon rituals in Karnataka's Bellary district for the early release of mining baron and former Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, currently in jail for illegal mining.

• Karnataka elections: Reddy brothers' clout waning, Congress hopes to wrest Bellary from BJP

  The iron-ore rich district of Bellary in Karnataka shot into national prominence politically in 1999 when Congress chief Sonia Gandhi took on and defeated the BJP's Sushma Swaraj in the Lok Sabha elections.

• Rahul Gandhi launches Congress' bid to win back Karnataka

  It was a blazing hot day in Raichur district in northern Karnataka. Rahul Gandhi, the Congress No 2 and one of the Congress' A-list campaigners was scheduled to launch his election campaign in the state at 10.30 in the morning in Sindhanur town in the district. He finally arrived over three hours late -- but the mood among those gathered to hear hi...

• CBI cautions people against impersonators in Karnataka

  CBI today cautioned people in Karnataka particularly in mine-rich Bellary District against falling prey to persons impersonating as its officers.

• Four die in accident in Karnataka

  Four persons died and an equal number were seriously injured when the jeep in which they were travelling rammed into a stationary lorry at Alakundi village in the Bellary district during the early hours on Thursday, police said.

• CBI raids Janardhana Reddy's associates' residence

  The CBI on Saturday conducted searches in the premises of three associates of jailed mining baron G Janardhana Reddy at Hospet in Bellary district as part of its probe into illegal export of iron ore.

• After Bellary, SC bans mining in two more Karnataka districts

  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 has hit the entire value chain in a big way. The fresh court orders will make it worse for the industry. The Supreme Court has summarised ...

• Bellary mining ban fallout: Many livelihoods driven to despair

  The iron ore of Bellary in Karnataka was such a source of wealth that people working in the industry thought they were set for life. Not just big mine owners - even ordinary workers dared to dream. But with the suspension of mining in the district following large scale violations, their dreams are crumbling. NDTV met the family of one lorry driver ...