Bengaluru: Gauri Lankesh laid to rest with full state honours

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September 6, 2017

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, who was shot dead by three unidentified assailants outside her residence last night, was laid to rest in Chamrajpet in Bengaluru this afternoon.

The mortal remains of the slain scribe were lowered to the grave amid chants of "Amar rahe Gauri Lankesh (Long live Gauri Lankesh).

Lankesh, who was the editor of popular Kannada tabloid "Gauri Lankesh Patrike" was given a state funeral and a gun salute was performed to honour her.

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah, Congress leader and member of Parliament M Veerappa Moily and other state leaders paid their last respects to Lankesh at Chamrajpet. The CM has ordered a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to be formed to conduct a probe into the murder.

Members of the Kannada film fraternity, activists, members of the general public were seen at the venue paying their homage to the noted journalist, while friends and family members bid her a tearful farewell.

"We will not follow any religious customs for Gauri's last rites, which are to take place later this evening. She was a rationalist and we do not want to go against her ideologies," the slain journalist's brother Indrajit Lankesh told mediapersons previosuly.

Earlier in the day, prominent journalists had congregated at the Press Club of India (PCI) in the national capital to demanded justice for Lankesh and raised the call for standing up to "forces" trying to "muzzle" the voices of dissent.

The PCI had strongly condemned the violent killing of Lankesh, saying, "A fearless and independent journalist who gave voice to many causes and always stood up for justice has been shot dead in the most brutal manner in order to silence her voice."

An outspoken critic of Hindutva politics, Lankesh was the editor Kannada tabloid Gauri Lankesh Patrike, besides owning some other publications.

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January 9,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 9: Customs officials seized 1.575 kg gold, worth about, Rs 63 lakh from three passengers who arrived from Dubai here at Mangalore International Airport on Thursday.

Official sources said that in the first incident, three days back gold weighing 336.7 grams was found in possession of an inbound air passenger. The passenger who arrived by Air India flight from Dubai had concealed the gold in his socks. The value of the seized gold is estimated to be Rs 13.43 lakh.

In the other two instances that took place on January 7, gold weighing 1239 gram and worth about Rs 50.3 lakh was confiscated from two passengers who arrived from Dubai by Air India flight. One of the passengers had attempted to smuggle 523 gram gold in paste form.

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June 6,2020

Mangaluru, June 6: As many as 24 coronavirus positive cases reported in Dakshina Kannada in 24 hours (from 5 p.m. June 5 to 5 p.m. June 6). 

With this the total number of covid-19 cases mounted to 167, among which 88 are currently active. 

Among the newly detected 24 cases 11 are Maharashtra returnees, 6 are Dubai returnees, 1 is Arabia returnee, 1 is Ukraine/Turkey returnee. And source of 5 new cases still remained untraced.
 

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February 29,2020

Mysuru, Feb 29: More than 7,000 industrialists and entrepreneurs have left the country due to a deficit of trust, and incidents like the violence that rocked northeast Delhi will only affect the economy further, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of Art of Living Foundation, said on Friday.

Sri Sri was speaking at a corporate wellness conference on the theme, 'Wellness and Wellbeing for a Progressive Nation', hosted by CII in Mysuru. He said an atmosphere of fear and mistrust pervades the country and does not augur well for the economy.

"Bankers, too, are suspicious of everyone and not extending loans to industrialists. This has posed lots of problems," he said. "This attitude among bank officials should go as life depends on trust. When there is a deficiency of trust, there is a possibility of the economy slowing down," Sri Sri added

He said society is now facing two important issues - aggression and depression. "Some people stage protests and pelt stones which happened recently in Delhi. This is really unfortunate," he said, adding, "Fear lurks in the nation's capital, which is being used by many to create terror. This will affect the economy. No country will prosper without peace."

Wellness is the need of the hour, he said, adding, "Corporates used to spend half their health to gain wealth and spend half their wealth to regain their health. This isn't good economics. We have to talk and convince people to invest in wellness."

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