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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
TopicGauri Lankesh

Topic: Gauri Lankesh

SC restores organised crime charges against Gauri Lankesh murder accused

The high court had quashed the August 2018 order of the police authority granting approval to invoke Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes Act for probe against accused Mohan Nayak.

Sanatan Sanstha on Facebook ban list, ‘but affiliate pages’ flagged for hate are still active

Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies online disinformation, says it has flagged many pages & groups linked with Sanatan Sanstha & Hindu Janajagruti Samiti to Facebook since last year.

4 years, 4 charge sheets, 17 arrests later, trial yet to begin in Gauri Lankesh murder case

Progress in the case currently hinges on the Supreme Court's decision on a plea filed by Lankesh's sister, Kavitha, challenging the Karnataka HC's decision to quash KCOCA charges against an accused.

5 agencies, multiple arrests — 7 yrs after Narendra Dabholkar was shot dead, probe continues

The doctor-rationalist Narendra Dabholkar was gunned down on 20 August, 2013. While CBI has arrested members of the radical Sanatan Sanstha, it is yet to complete the probe.  

‘Remember Gauri Lankesh’: Rana Ayyub receives death & rape threats after posts on Kashmir

Journalist Rana Ayyub posted screenshots of several death and rape threats she has been getting on social media after calling out Bashir Ahmed Khan's killing in Jammu and Kashmir.

Every person on Yogi Adityanath’s UP posters is now vulnerable — just like Gauri Lankesh was

Putting up names & photos of anti-CAA protesters is an invitation to mobs — Allahabad High Court has labelled it ‘absolute encroachment’ on citizens’ liberty.

SIT arrests one in connection with Gauri Lankesh murder case

Rushikesh Devdikar was arrested Thursday in Jharkhand's Katras in connection with the September 2017 murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru.

U2 honours Gauri Lankesh, Arundhati Roy, Smriti Irani at Mumbai concert

U2 played a visual montage, featuring women achievers from India and across the world during their maiden India performance in Mumbai Sunday.

3 years after JNU student Najeeb went missing, his mother to march to Amit Shah’s residence

On 15 October, Fatima Nafees will be joined by slain UP cop Subodh Kumar Singh's wife Rajni Singh and families of Tabrez Ansari & Gauri Lankesh.

Rahul Gandhi pleads not guilty in RSS defamation case, to face trial along with Yechury

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury posted bail for Rs 15,000 each after they pleaded not guilty in the defamation case of a RSS worker.

On Camera

Indian shipping sector is vulnerable to geopolitical unrest. Build local, invest in air cargo

With the ongoing conflict at the Red Sea, India needs to take a long-term view of the PLI scheme and its ambition to emerge as a hub of shipping containers.

Complaints to RBI ombudsman up 68% in FY23, banks biggest cause for customer grievances

Data shows large public sector banks received highest number of complaints in absolute terms, but fared better than several private banks when looked at on complaints-per-branch basis.

Tiger Triumph-24 — India-US tri-services exercise to boost coordination begins

The exercise will be simulated to undertake HADR operations in a ‘friendly island nation’, where troops will execute amphibious landing ops.

CAA comes not with a bang, but with a whimper. Without NRC, it will fade into academic debate

For BJP, CAA was strategic move that did not quite work out because those it would benefit could’ve been accommodated under existing laws, and new entrants would remain excluded.