Bengaluru Journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead, Protests erupt    Senior Journalist and activist from Karnataka Gauri Lankesh was on Tuesday shot to death outside her residence in Bengaluru. Ms.Lankesh was shot by unidentified assailants although the motive of the murder is still unclear. At least four bullets were fired out of which one hit her on the forehead and two entered her chest, media reports quoting police sources said. Ms.Lankesh who edited and ran a Kannada newspaper Gauri Lankesh Patrike had been a staunch critic of the right-wing forces and had even been convicted in a defamation case filed in 2015 by a Karnataka BJP MLA. She had reported how three BJP leaders had duped a jeweller for 1 lakh rupees. Although she managed to get an anticipatory bail in the case, she had continued to receive death threats, multiple media reports quoting Gauri said on Tuesday. As the news of her death spread on Twitter, journalists and activists expressed anger and shock and con...