Basavaprabhu Sri, attached to Davanagere Virakta Mutt, has been chosen as the interim pontiff of the Chitraduga Murugha Mutt in place of rape-accused Lingayat seer, Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, sources confirmed on Tuesday.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday virtually unveiled Statue of Peace of Sri Ramanujacharya installed in Srinagar, the captal of Jammu and Kashmir.