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Udupi mutt pontiff dies, hospital suspicion about he was poisoned
(G.N.S) Dt. 20 Bengaluru Lakshmivara Tirtha, the high-profile and sometimes controversial pontiff of the Shiroor mutt in Karnataka’s Udupi, died in a hospital on Thursday morning amid suspicion that he had been poisoned. The state government said it would order a probe if necessary. Tirtha (55) who had severe differences