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  Andhra Pradesh: Major fire accident in Tirupati, four members of family found charred to death

  India | November 11, 2018 12:39 IST

  Police and fire force personnel, on being alerted by neighbours in the area, rushed and put out the fire and broke open the door when they found the four badly charred bodies.

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  Bag containing explosive material found near Tirumala temple

  India | January 30, 2018 13:57 IST

  Red sanders Anti-smuggling Task Force and devotees were suspected to be the targets of the miscreants.

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  Delhi-based devotee donates Rs 1 cr to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam trust

  India | December 09, 2016 22:10 IST

  Sri Venkateswara Pranadanam Trust of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) has received a donation of over Rs 1 crore from a devotee from Delhi. The trust runs the affairs of India's richest temple N.S. Padmanabhan

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  Master blaster Tendulkar bows to pray, visits temple in Tirupati

  Cricket | June 02, 2016 12:39 IST

  Tirupati:Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and his wife Anjali offered prayers at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala near here on Wednesday. They were accompanied by actor-turned politician K Chiranjeevi and actor Akkineni

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  Tirumala temple hundi nets Rs 3 crore on New Year day

  India | January 02, 2016 0:07 IST

  Tirupati: Over 80,000 devotees from different parts of the country thronged the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara on new year day today.The hundi (offering box) collection was about rupees three crore besides gold and

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  TTD investment committee discusses gold monetisation scheme

  December 27, 2015 8:21 IST

  Tirupati: A meeting of a key committee of cash-rich Lord Venkateswara temple yesterday suggested holding talks with high-level central officials over the government's gold monetisation scheme before taking a decision on its participation.The Investment Committee

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  Express train launched between Tirupati-Shirdi

  India | December 26, 2015 21:58 IST

  Tirupati: Linking two of the most popular pilgrim centres in the country, a weekly train between Tirupati and Shirdi was flagged off by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Saturday.The express train would offer direct connectivity

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  President Pranab Mukherjee offers prayers at Tirumala temple

  India | December 26, 2015 9:00 IST

  Tirupati: President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday offered prayers at the Tirumala temple of Lord Venkateswara.Accompanied by Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, he had darshan and participated in various associated

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  Good news for Delhiites, Tirupati's Balaji coming to Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

  India | October 27, 2015 12:52 IST

  New Delhi: Delhiites will have an opportunity to witness and seek the blessings of Lord Balaji as the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) is set to organise a Sri Venkateswara Vaibhavotsavam here from October 31.TTD, which

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  Tirupati temple will be built in Dehradun, other places: TTD

  India | October 17, 2015 22:35 IST

  New Delhi: As part of its plans to have a Lord Venkateswara temple in every state capital of the country, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) is building a temple in Dehradun in Uttarakhand, a senior

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  President to visit Lord Venkateswara temple today

  India | July 01, 2015 7:59 IST

  Tirupati: President Pranab Mukherjee will offer worship at the ancient hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at nearby Tirumala today.Temple sources told PTI that the President would arrive here on an eight hour spiritual sojourn from

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  President Pranab Mukherjee to visit Tirupati during ten days of southern sojourn

  India | June 28, 2015 17:32 IST

  New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee will visit 'Rashtrapati Nilayam' in Secunderabad for a ten-day southern sojourn beginning tomorrow.During his sojourn, he will visit Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh on July 1, a press release issued by RashtrapatiBhavan

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  Former Odisha CM Janaki Ballabh Patnaik dies

  Politics | April 21, 2015 10:00 IST

  Bhubaneswar: Former Odisha Chief Minister and ex-Assam Governor Janaki Ballabh Patnaik passed away in Tirupati early today. He was 89.The veteran Congress leader was admitted to a hospital in the temple town following a chest

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  Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan offers prayers at Tirupati Shrine

  Politics | April 10, 2015 10:41 IST

  Tirupati: Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today offered prayers at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara near here.The 71-year-old Mahajan arrived here with members of her family last evening and prayed at the shrine

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  Vishwanath temple to be developed like Shirdi, Tirupati shrines

  India | February 09, 2015 10:46 IST

  Lucknow: With a view to provide better facilities to devotees as well as augment earnings at Kashi Vishwanath temple, Uttar Pradesh government is going to study the administration of Tirupati and Shirdi Sai Baba temples. 

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  Pilgrims offer Rs 832 crore to Tirumala temple in 2014

  India | January 01, 2015 11:53 IST

  Hyderabad: The Venkateswara temple, India's richest shrine located on the Tirumala hills in Tirupati, earned Rs 832 crore as 'hundi' collection or offerings by pilgrims during 2014.Over 2.26 crore pilgrims visited the temple in Andhra

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  Mahabodhi now among India's richest temples

  India | August 01, 2014 15:52 IST

  Patna: After Tirupati, Vaishno Devi and Shirdi Sai Baba temples, the Mahabodhi temple in Bihar's Bodh Gaya, Buddhism's holiest shrine, has become one of the richest temples in India, officials said Thursday.The 1,500-year-old Mahabodhi temple's

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  Narendra Modi pays obeisance at Tirupati Balaji temple

  India | May 01, 2014 12:55 IST

  Tirupati: BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today offered worship at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara near here.Modi, accompanied by TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu, offered prayers this  morning. Janasena founder, Pawan Kalyan,

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  United Andhra protesters build "tomb" for Sonia Gandhi in Tirupati, Congress protests

  India | October 18, 2013 12:58 IST

  Hyderabad: The Congress leaders in Andhra Pradesh are up in arms over a mischievous plan by Samaikyandhra protesters building a "tomb" for Congress president Sonia Gandhi in  the holy town of Tirupati. Actor and former

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  Al-Umma jehadis were planning to target Tirupati shrine during Navratri

  India | October 06, 2013 10:01 IST

  Hyderabad: The Al-Umma jehadi terrorists arrested from Chittoor in a pre-dawn raid by AP and Tamil Nadu Q branch police were actually plotting to target the world famous Balaji shrine in Tirumala near Tirupati during