Ballari-based mining baron and former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy was absconding as police were on the lookout for him in connection with a money transaction worth crores of rupees allegedly linked to a ponzi scheme, top officials said Wednesday.

TDP supremo and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who is trying to unite opposition parties to take on BJP in the Lok Sabha Elections next year, will meet former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda and Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy here on Thursday.

The CCB sleuths have intensified the investigation into Ambident Marketing Private Limited company cheating case and if needed, former minister Janardhan Reddy would be arrested, said city police commissioner T. Sunil Kumar.

Two women labourers buried under the mud when the slope collapsed while digging for constructing a retention walk in the city on Wednesday.

The 61st Sessions Court of the city granted a conditional anticipatory bail to Ali Khan, the close associate of mining baron Janardhan Reddy in related to a deal with Ambident Company, on Wednesday. 

Amid a political slugfest over the Rafale fighter jet deal, state-run HAL's Chairman and Managing Director R Madhavan Wednesday said the aircraft manufacturing company is contending not to be an offset partner of any original equipment manufacturer.

Scam-tainted mining czar and former minister Janardhana Reddy is facing the threat of arrest again in old deals and illegal money transfer cases. It is said that he is preparing to file anticipatory bail application before the court.

With a record victory of Anitha Kumaraswamy in Ramanagar Assembly constituency in the by-election on Tuesday defeating BJP candidate L Chandrashekar with a margin of 1.09 lakh votes, both Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and his wife Anitha Kumaraswamy entered the Legislative Assembly together for the second time and thus created a history.