Maya Sharma And A Vaidyanathan

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  17 Karnataka MLAs Stay Disqualified, But Can Contest Polls: Supreme Court

  Supreme Court Karnataka MLA Case: The Supreme Court today confirmed the disqualification of 17 Karnataka MLAs whose revolt triggered the collapse of the Janata Dal Secular-Congress government and the subsequent takeover by the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP. But the court has cancelled the Speaker's decision to bar the rebel MLAs from contesting polls till...

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  Supreme Court Upholds Disqualification Of 17 Karnataka MLAs: 10 Points

  A decision on 17 Karnataka MLAs whose revolt triggered the collapse of the Janata Dal Secular-Congress government and the takeover by the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP is expected in the Supreme Court today. The court will decide whether the then Speaker's decision to disqualify the rebels and bar them from contesting elections during the term of the curr...

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  Jayalalithaa Gets Four Years in Jail for Corruption, Fined 100 Crores

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was sent to the Bangalore Central Jail on Saturday evening after a court found her guilty of corruption. She has been sentenced to four years in prison and has been fined Rs 100 crore.

• Major jolt for Yeddyurappa from Supreme Court

  BS Yeddyurappa is staring at another political crisis in the state.The Supreme Court has delivered a verdict today that grants new legitimacy to those within the BJP who have been demanding that a new Chief Minister be appointed to replace Mr Yeddyurappa.In October last year, Mr Yeddyurappa had to prove his government had not been reduced to a mino...

• Reddys slammed for illegal mining in Andhra

  The somewhat-fragile BJP government in Karnataka has been dealt another blow: an expert committee has ruled that cabinet ministers, the Reddy brothers, have been running an illegal mining empire across the border in Andhra Pradesh, and that their mining licenses should be cancelled.The report of the Centrally Empowered Committee (CEC), set up b...

• Whose Belgaum is it? The battle heats up

  The battle over Belgaum, a long bone of contention between Maharashtra and Karnataka, has heated up once again.

• Relief for Reddy brothers and their mines in Supreme Court

  Karnataka's Reddy brothers, the mining barons who are ministers in the BJP government in the state, have received welcome news from the Supreme Court.After a five-month ban, their Obalapuram company, which owns three mines along the Karnataka-Andhra Border, has been told it can get back to work, but not within 150 metres of the Karnataka border.Jan...