Bengaluru: The mother of one of the accused in the Renukaswamy murder case passed away on Saturday, sources said.

Manjulamma (70), mother of Raghavendra, has been ailing for the past one year. She went into depression ever since her son was arrested.

Kannada film actor Darshan Thoogudeepa and his friend Pavithra Gowda are the key accused and are in jail. Along with them, 15 others have also been arrested.

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Raghavendra was the president of the Darshan Fan Club in Chitradurga.

He had allegedly played a key role in abducting Darshan's fan Renukaswamy from Chitradurga on June 8 and bringing him to Bengaluru where he was tortured to death on June 9 for allegedly sending obscene messages to Pavithra.

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Jerusalem (AP): A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah began early Wednesday morning, after Beirut residents endured the most intense day of Israeli strikes since the war began.

Many wondered if the agreement to stop fighting would hold. Israel has said it will attack if Hezbollah breaks the ceasefire agreement, which was announced Tuesday.

At least 42 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Lebanon on Tuesday, according to local authorities.

Hezbollah also fired rockets into Israel on Tuesday, triggering air raid sirens in the country's north.

The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire marks the first major step toward ending the regionwide unrest triggered by Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. But it does not address the devastating war in Gaza.

Hezbollah began attacking Israel a day after Hamas' attack. The fighting in Lebanon escalated into all-out war in September with massive Israeli airstrikes across the country and an Israeli ground invasion of the south.

In Gaza, more than 44,000 people have been killed and more than 1,04,000 wounded in the nearly 14-month war between Israel and Hamas, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.