Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court yesterday dismissed a petition by Union Bank of India seeking transfer of the investigation of the alleged scam involving the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation Ltd to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The petition was heard by Justice M. Nagaprasanna, who ruled that Section 35A of the…
Bengaluru: The Special Court for People’s Representatives on Monday granted conditional bail to former Minister B. Nagendra arrested on charge of multi-crore scam at Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes (ST) Development Corporation Ltd. In the order pronounced on Monday, the Court has ordered Nagendra to furnish a personal bond for Rs. 2 lakh and a…
The Karnataka Government wants to celebrate ‘International Day of Democracy’ tomorrow by forming the ‘Longest Human Chain.’ They want 25 lakh people from Bidar to Chamarajanagar to hold hands and form a 2,500-kilometre-long human chain. But why? According to the Government, ‘to promote democratic values.’ Last year too, they celebrated the event with a small…
Bengaluru: Enforcement Directorate (ED) that is probing into the multi-crore scam at Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation Ltd., has submitted a charge sheet naming former ST Welfare Minister B. Nagendra as Accused-1, at the Special Court For People’s Representatives in the city on Tuesday. Strangely, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the…
Bengaluru: Strongly condemning the Valmiki Development Corporation and MUDA site allotment scams, the Dalit Sangharsha Samiti (Bheemavada) will take out a Mysuru – Bengaluru Padayatra from Mysuru tomorrow (Aug. 15). Addressing a press meet in Bengaluru yesterday, Samiti President R. Mohanraj alleged that the Congress Government has been cheating the SC/ST communities ever since it…
Mysore/Mysuru: Preparations have been made in full swing, for the Congress’ Janandolana Convention organised at Maharaja’s College Grounds in the city tomorrow (Aug. 9) at 11 am. The convention has been organised as a valedictory of Congress Janandolana Yatre, that was launched on Aug. 2, as a counter to ongoing Mysuru Chalo Padayatra by BJP…
Accuses the Central Agency of pressurising a State Government official to falsely implicate CM, Dy.CM and MLA Nagendra Bengaluru: The Congress Party Legislators, including the Ministers, led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, staged a protest in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue in Vidhana Soudha premises here this morning, accusing the…
Bengaluru: A Special People’s Representatives Court remanded former Minister and MLA B. Nagendra to 14-day judicial custody in connection with the alleged irregularities in the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation Limited here yesterday. Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials produced MLA Nagendra before their custody ended on Monday. The Special Court Judge Santosh Gajanana Bhat,…
Chamarajanagar: Seeking the resignation of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over the multi-crore Valmiki Development Corporation scam and diversion of funds meant for SC/ST welfare for other purposes, the BJP will be taking out a ‘Bengaluru Chalo’ march tomorrow (July 18). Addressing a party meeting in this regard at the BJP office in Chamarajanagar yesterday, former Kolar…
Bengaluru: Days after Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials arrested former Minister of Youth Empowerment, Sports and Tribal Welfare B. Nagendra, a Congress MLA from Ballari Rural Constituency, in connection with a scam involving the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation, the ED has taken Nagendra’s wife, Manjula, into custody. Funds amounting to Rs. 88 crore…
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