Automobile mechanic Vasudev Suryavanshi, 29, who was arrested on Sunday by Maharashtra ATS for alleged links with a radical Hindutva group involved in the accumulation of illegal arms, has been identified as an individual referred to as “Mechanic’’ in the diary of a key suspect in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh.

Disappointed by the interference of Minister DK Shivakumar favouring MLA Lakshmi Hebbalkar in the Belagavi district politics, Municipal Administration Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi is said to have complained against DK Shivakumar and Hebbalkar to KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao and Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar.

A youth died on the spot when lightning struck him at the Udusalamma temple near Dwaralu on national highway 48 on Tuesday evening.

A rowdy sheeter was hacked to death due to old enmity near Surya Comfort in the city on Tuesday at 9.45 pm. The deceased is identified as Market Giri. It is suspected that he was killed due to old enmity.

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday rejected the objection of Raghaveshwara Bharati Swamiji of Ramachandrapura Mutt of Hosanagar that a number of evidences collected by the investigating officers in the rape case of Ramakatha singer were not submitted to the trial courts while filing FIR.

“I will not join the BJP. My ideology is different and BJP ideology is different. We cannot go together”, said former minister Satish Jarkiholi.

Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that as the coalition government was stable and strong, no one could able to shake it.

Four persons including a PSI sustained injuries in a gas cylinder explosion in Madiwala police station limits here on Tuesday.