Gauri Lankesh Death

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Thursday said a group of writers and intellectuals in the state have written to him saying they have received threats to their life, following which steps are being taken to provide security to them.

The Canadian city of Burnaby has declared September 5 as "Gauri Lankesh Day", as a tribute to the dead journalist on her death anniversary, her sister Kavitha Lankesh said on Thursday.

A lawyer Friday lodged a complaint against noted playwright and Jnanpith awardee Girish Karnad for holding a placard 'Me Too Urban Naxal' during an event organised to mark the first death anniversary of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh on September 5 in the city.

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The Karnataka Police special Investigation team probing the Bengaluru journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder has today released sketches of the suspected killers for "public help". The probe team has also released a video of the suspects that they obtained during the investigation.

One month on, the murderers of Gauri Lankesh have still not been caught. The Bengaluru journalist is the only Indian to win the prestigious Anna Politkovskata Award, which is given in the memory of a slain Russian reporter and political activist to female human rights defenders. "It's a proof that her voice has not been silenced by her death," says...

Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy on Monday claimed the Special Investigation Team probing the killing of senior Kannada journalist Gauri Lankesh has got clues and is in the process of gathering evidence.

The CID will share the details of its probe into the killing of rationalist M M Kalburgi with the Special Investigation Team probing the Gauri Lankesh case, a top official said today.

It has been one week since journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her home in Bengaluru. A Special Investigation Team has been set up specifically for this case, but with no real breakthrough so far. There are fears it is going the way of the probe into the murder of MM Kalburgi, a rationalist shot outside his house in north Karnataka two y...

Did the Karnataka government know of journalist Gauri Lankesh's work to rehabilitate Naxals, and if it did, why was she not provided adequate security, union minister and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said today, also attacking Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for declaring RSS ideology guilty without an investigation having even begun.

The brother of Gauri Lankesh, the outspoken journalist who was murdered on Tuesday, is convinced that eldest sister was killed because of the ideas she expressed. While the probe into her murder is still young, Indrajit's comments yesterday that Maoists could be behind her death had caused surprise. Gauri had worked with the Communal Harmony Forum ...

The killing of a prominent journalist and government critic outside her home in Bangalore prompted protests in major Indian cities Wednesday and a national uproar about the shrinking space for free speech in the world's most populous democracy.

Hundreds gathered to pay their respects to senior journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh, who was buried on Wednesday evening with full state honours at a cemetery in Bengaluru's Chamarajpet. The police gave a gun salute to Ms Lankesh, 55, who was shot dead at point-blank range at her home yesterday.

Journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was shot dead at her home in Bengaluru last night, was a fierce activist, who openly expressed her pro-Naxal and Leftist views.

Gauri Lankesh, a senior journalist, activist and anti-establishment voice, was shot dead outside her home in Bengaluru last night by attackers who fired seven times at close range.

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Thursday said a group of writers and intellectuals in the state have written to him saying they have received threats to their life, following which steps are being taken to provide security to them.

The Canadian city of Burnaby has declared September 5 as "Gauri Lankesh Day", as a tribute to the dead journalist on her death anniversary, her sister Kavitha Lankesh said on Thursday.

A lawyer Friday lodged a complaint against noted playwright and Jnanpith awardee Girish Karnad for holding a placard 'Me Too Urban Naxal' during an event organised to mark the first death anniversary of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh on September 5 in the city.

An AFP contributor investigating drug cartels shot to death in Mexico. An American freelance journalist fatally shot while embedded with South Sudan rebels. A blogger in Malta killed in a car bomb after reporting on corruption and cronyism.

The Karnataka Police special Investigation team probing the Bengaluru journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder has today released sketches of the suspected killers for "public help". The probe team has also released a video of the suspects that they obtained during the investigation.

One month on, the murderers of Gauri Lankesh have still not been caught. The Bengaluru journalist is the only Indian to win the prestigious Anna Politkovskata Award, which is given in the memory of a slain Russian reporter and political activist to female human rights defenders. "It's a proof that her voice has not been silenced by her death," says...

Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy on Monday claimed the Special Investigation Team probing the killing of senior Kannada journalist Gauri Lankesh has got clues and is in the process of gathering evidence.

The CID will share the details of its probe into the killing of rationalist M M Kalburgi with the Special Investigation Team probing the Gauri Lankesh case, a top official said today.

It has been one week since journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her home in Bengaluru. A Special Investigation Team has been set up specifically for this case, but with no real breakthrough so far. There are fears it is going the way of the probe into the murder of MM Kalburgi, a rationalist shot outside his house in north Karnataka two y...

Did the Karnataka government know of journalist Gauri Lankesh's work to rehabilitate Naxals, and if it did, why was she not provided adequate security, union minister and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said today, also attacking Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for declaring RSS ideology guilty without an investigation having even begun.

The brother of Gauri Lankesh, the outspoken journalist who was murdered on Tuesday, is convinced that eldest sister was killed because of the ideas she expressed. While the probe into her murder is still young, Indrajit's comments yesterday that Maoists could be behind her death had caused surprise. Gauri had worked with the Communal Harmony Forum ...

The killing of a prominent journalist and government critic outside her home in Bangalore prompted protests in major Indian cities Wednesday and a national uproar about the shrinking space for free speech in the world's most populous democracy.

Hundreds gathered to pay their respects to senior journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh, who was buried on Wednesday evening with full state honours at a cemetery in Bengaluru's Chamarajpet. The police gave a gun salute to Ms Lankesh, 55, who was shot dead at point-blank range at her home yesterday.

Journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was shot dead at her home in Bengaluru last night, was a fierce activist, who openly expressed her pro-Naxal and Leftist views.

Gauri Lankesh, a senior journalist, activist and anti-establishment voice, was shot dead outside her home in Bengaluru last night by attackers who fired seven times at close range.