Karnataka

Around 25 properties belonging to VG Siddhartha, the son-in-law of former Union minister SM Krishna and the chief of the Cafe Coffee Day chain, were raided by Income Tax officials this morning - an action the BJP claims proves the department is functioning independently. Mr Krishna, who was Karnataka Chief Minister, Union minister and Governor, had ended his four-decade association joined the BJP earlier this year.

Former union minister SM Krishna's son-in-law VG Siddhartha was raided this morning by Income Tax officers who searched his properties in Karnataka, including the Cafe Coffee Day chain.

In a bizarre incident, a group of men broke into a house at Adumaroli near Mangaluru and stole 99 sovereigns (792 grams) of gold ornaments and cash, only to return the catch two days later with a piece of advice.

In a bizarre incident, a group of men broke into a house at Adumaroli near here and stole 99 sovereigns of gold ornaments and cash, only to return two days later with the loot and a piece of advice.

Two women died, while four other tourists, including a woman, were missing after being washed away in an overflowing stream at a waterfall near Karwar in Karnataka on Sunday, police said.

A late-night car race by three teens in Bengaluru ended in the death of one of them over the weekend. Two others were injured. All three vehicles they were driving as well as a lorry were badly damaged.

More than a week since the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh, there have been no arrests and no clear leads in the case.

The Karnataka government has offered a 10 lakh award for clues in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh, even a special investigative team of the police set up to find the killers asked the public to share any information they might have to help solve the crime. Gauri Lankesh was killed at the doorstep of her Bengaluru home on Tuesday night.

BJP chief in Karnataka BS Yeddyurappa and other senior party leaders were detained in the coastal city of Mangaluru today as they attempted to march towards the office of the District Collector. Hundreds of BJP workers converged in the city to hold a mega motorbike rally that the police had denied permission for. The BJP is protesting against the murder of 12 workers in the communally sensitive Dakshina Kannada district.

After Gauri Lankesh was shot three times, she tried to run into her house in Bengaluru but collapsed outside, where neighbours who heard the gunshots discovered her lying in a pool of blood.

Protests erupted across the city and some parts of the state today condemning the "cold blooded murder" of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru. She was shot dead outside her house last night, sparking outrage from people of all walks of life.

Seventeen years ago, weeks after Gauri Lankesh took over her father's hard-hitting Kannada weekly Lankesh Patrike, she said in an interview that she hadn't thought she would step into his big shoes. Her father, P Lankesh, who was a leading Kannada journalist, poet and author, had died earlier that year

Union minister Nitin Gadkari has sharply rejected what he called Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's "baseless allegations," asserting that the BJP or groups affiliated to it "have nothing to do" with the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh.

The Karnataka government today decided to form a Special Investigation Team or SIT to investigate the killing of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh.

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.