Tirupati

Lanka President offers worship at Tirupati shrine

Amid tight security, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his wife Shiranthi on Saturday offered worship at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara near Tirupati. Rajapaksa was in the temple for about 40 minutes. ...  

Snapshot: Cricketer Sreesanth has his head shaved

Sreesanth comes out of Lord Venkateshwara Temple after tonsuring his head in Tirumala. ...  

Snapshot: Sachin Tendulkar visits Tirupati

Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar with TTD Chairman Bapiraju at the Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala in Tirupati. ...  

AP: Advani offers prayers at Lord Venkateswara temple

Tirupati: Senior BJP leader L K Advani offered prayers at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at nearby Tirumala on Saturday. The veteran BJP leader arrived at Renigunta airport near here on Friday afternoon. After an overnight stay on the hills, he offered prayers at the temple early this morning, where he spent about half an hour, temple sources said. Advani was also presented with sacred prasadam, silk cloth...  

Spurt in death of trekking pilgrims to Tirupati alarming

Tirupati: A pilgrim Jayamma(67) from Bengaluru died while she was trekking to Tirumala on July 11 and another pilgrim Chinta Chinna Bhadraiah(45), a native of Sattenapalli in Guntur district died of cardiac arrest on August 4 this year, walking the Srivari Mettu trail. These two incidents reveal how pilgrims are risking their lives and coming to the Shrine for fulfilling their vows to the Lord, notwithstanding their health condition and...  

ISRO chief prays for success of PSLV-C21 launch

Tirupati: Ahead of India's landmark 100th space mission, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishanan on Friday offered worship at the hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara near Tirupati praying for its successful launch. Radhakrishanan is a frequent visitor to the over 2000-year-old shrine before every mission, temple sources said. The mission, in which a 720-kg SPOT-6 remote sensing satellite from France (built by ASTRIUM SAS) and a 15-kg Japanese spacecraft PROITERES would be...  

Tirupati: Student hangs himself in hostel

Tirupati: Lalith Raju (14), studying in 8th standard in a private school in the town, committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his hostel room on Monday. The MR Palle police said, Lalith Raju from Adoni of Kurnool district studying at Sri Chaitanya Children's Academy on the AIR bypass road in the town was staying in the school hostel. He was found hanging from the ceiling fan...  

Tirupati pilgrims losing babies to sleep

Tirupati: Fatigue after the pilgrimage to Tirumala and Tirupati, which makes parents of babies sleepy-eyed, has come in handy for professional kidnappers who are always on the prowl, waiting for the right moment to make the snatch. Most of the babies have been kidnapped when their tired parents have dozed off or busy trying to find the conveyance back home at bus and railway stations. The recent abduction of 11-month-old...  

Tirupati: Drama over an 'unborn' baby

Tirupati: High drama took place at the government maternity hospital, here on Monday, when a woman in her late thirties, staged a dharna claiming that her newborn baby was missing. Later it was revealed that the woman had never been pregnant and had not delivered any baby. It all started with B Eswaramma, wife of Ramanaiah from Empedu village in Srikalahasti mandal along with her relatives staging a protest outside...  

Andhra Pradesh: 6 infants die at govt hospital

Tirupati: Slight tension prevailed at Ruia Government Hospital in Tirupati after six infants died on Wednesday. The parents staged a protest at the hospital alleging negligence. However, no police complaint has been filed against the hospital authorities as yet. The hospital authorities insist the infants who died were admitted in a critical condition. The hospital was in news last month also after lack of adequate oxygen supply was reportedly cited...  

Non-Hindus to sign faith form to enter Tirupati

Tirumala: From now on, non-Hindus will not be allowed into the Tirumala temple without furnishing a declaration affirming their faith in Lord Venkateswara. The declaration register, which was earlier kept in the Vaikuntam queue complex, will now be made available in other places like the JEO camp office, Peshkar Office and all sub-enquiries centres on the seven hills for the convenience of people from other religions. The decision was announced...  

Jagan's visit to Tirupati sparks religion row

Hyderabad: Already battling corruption cases, YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy now finds himself in a new controversy as the authorities in the Tirupati temple say he has violated norms. Jagan is a practising Christian but did not sign a mandatory declaration that Non-Hindus have to sign before entering the shrine. The YSR Congress chief visited the temple on Wednesday while campaigning for upcoming bypolls in Andhra Pradesh. According to the...  

'Christian' Jagan courts big trouble at Tirupati

TIRUMALA: YSR Congress Party president and Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy landed in a controversy when he went in for a darshan of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala without signing the formal declaration of his faith in the Lord as required by temple rules for non-Hindus.Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is a practising Christian, is learnt to have refused to sign the form despite being told repeatedly by TTD staff about...  

No priority darshan for VIPs at Tirumala

TIRUMALA: The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Trust Board has decided to withdraw the intervention of government department official machinery to conduct Kalyanamasthu programme in the state. They have decided to conduct Nitya Kalyanamasthu at only 11 important temples including Srisailam, Yadagirigutta, Basara, Vemulavada, Dwaraka Tirumala, Mangalagiri, Arasavelli, Annavaram, Kanaka Durga temple and in Tirumala in association with the endowments ministry.Briefing newsmen about the deliberations of the board meeting which met...  

Government showers Tirupati with projects

Tirupati: Apparently, with an eye on the by-election to the prestigious Tirupati assembly seat, the ruling Congress government has cleared several new projects and also fast tracked many other projects in Tirupati before election notification takes places. Many of these projects had either slowed down or come to a halt for lack of money.Disclosing the slew of schemes in the pipeline, municipal corporation commissioner T Prasad said that Rs 125...  

Tirupati: Record collection of Rs 5.73 cr in one day

hyderabad: The richest Temple board of the country Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams just got richer. It has recorded its highest Hundi (offering box) collection ever on a single day of Rs 5.73 crores on Sunday, April 1. Its previous record was Rs 4.2 crore collected on January 1, 2012. Temple officials say while they did have a pilgrim rush of about 70,000 on Sunday, the fact that one of the devotees...  

AP: TDP gearing up for next round of bypolls

Hyderabad: The Telugu Desam has started the exercise to win the next round of by-elections which will be held in the state for 18 Assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat. Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu has started consulting party seniors from the constituencies for where the by-elections are due following the disqualification or acceptance of the resignations of pro-Jagan MLAs/MP. According to party sources, Naidu is taking care to...  

Snapshot: Tirupati gets 2.5 feet diamond crown

This 2.5 ft diamond studded golden crown, worth Rs 45 crore, was offered at Lord Vekateswara Temple by former Karnataka Minister G Janardhana Reddy in Tirupati on June 11, 2009. Reddy was arrested by the CBI in connection with illegal mining case. (PTI Photo) ...  

Chiranjeevi extends support to Anna Hazare

Hyderabad: Tirupati MLA K Chiranjeevi and pro-Telangana leader M Kodandaram on Monday extended their support to anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare's fight against corruption. "Whoever fights against corruption should be commended," said Chiranjeevi, who is set to join the Congress on August 20. Though it might practically not be possible to bring the Prime Minister and judiciary under the ambit of Lokpal, there is need for a wider discussion on the...  

TCS, Wipro in race for Tirupati temple project

Hyderabad: TCS and Wipro are among three companies vying to bag the prestigious Sri Seva Project of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) to provide IT solutions that will help devotees. Currently TTD offers four main e-services such as e-seva, e-accommodation, e-sudarshanam and e-hundi to the devotees and the Sri Seva project would help the administration in offering services like providing rooms, 'laddus' as well as in tonsuring. There are as...