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