Gadag: Annapurna Shivappa Rathod, alias Annapurna Ashok Hiremani, 54, a headmistress of a govt primary school, was found brutally murdered at her house in Gajendragad, Gadag district, on Saturday.

A hotelier by profession, a writer and an ardent supporter of art and culture by passion, Kalamanji Venkatagiriyappa Shrinivasa better known as Kavemshri passed away at a hospital in Gadag on Monday.