BJP workers on Monday urged SP G Radhika to conduct an enquiry into the ‘murder’ of Basavanna and Vivekananda considering KS Bhagavan as a witness as the latter has said that Basavanna and Vivekananda were killed.

The accused arrested in Gauri Lankesh murder case have reportedly alleged before the judge that the police have tortured them..

As the term of the police custody of accused Ganesh Miskin and Amith Baddi was completed on Monday, the SIT officials produced them before the 3rd ACMM court on Monday. During this time, the accused have complained before the judge that the police have tortured them and attacked on their necks, hands and legs, it is said.

Citing the administrative reasons, the state government has transferred 19 IAS officers on Monday.

Writer and progressive thinker Prof KS Bhagavan said that the death of Swami Vivekananda was not natural. It’s a murder. He was strangulated. The government should conduct an investigation into the death, he demanded.

Various organizations extended their support to the nationwide transport workers strike on August 7 demanding withdrawal of Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill-2017. 

Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy directed the authorities to desilt 527 tanks in the limits of five districts under 527 tanks to enhance their water storage capacity.

Two daily wage workers died of suffocation while cleaning the newly constructed manhole of an UGD on NT Road in the city on Monday afternoon.

Four persons of the same family drowned as the car in which they were travelling plunged into a canal near Mantikoppalu in Periyapatna taluk on Monday.