Mallya donated the gold after offering worship and requested temple authorities to use it for gilding the doors at the sanctum sanctorum, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams deputy executive officer (temple) Chinnamgari Ramana told PTI.
What should be made out of the Madras high court order involving non-Hindus' entry into Hindu temples, when many non-Hindus are among the hundreds of thousands that have been worshipping at these temples for generations, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
Kadapa member of Parliament Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's visit to Lord Tirupati Venkateswara temple is embroiled into a controversy following allegations of rival Telugu Desam Party and Congress leaders that he did not give a mandatory declaration to the authorities despite being a non-Hindu.
Pilgrims belonging to faiths other than Hinduism will have to submit a declaration form from August 13 before entering the Tirumala shrine near Tirupati stating that they have faith in the presiding deity, Lord Venkateswara
Hopping from one controversy to another, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam is facing serious allegations over irregularities in sale of tickets for paid rituals and 'missing' antique jewelry, offered to Lord Venkateshwara, the presiding deity of the famous temple.
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.
The copyright assures that a product originating from a certain region has a quality and reputation.
Early next month, the Madras high court will hear a unique case -- a petition challenging the geographical indications protection given to the famous Tirupati laddu, produced by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam.
Tirumala, the abode of Lord Venkateswara, was caught in a massive flood of unprecedented scale on Thursday, leaving hundreds of pilgrims stranded even as a heavy downpour under the influence of a depression in Bay of Bengal battered the temple-town Tirupati and many parts of Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh.
Reaching out to Dalits and backward classes, the administration of the Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirupati has launched several initiatives for the community including training them in performing temple rituals.
As it marks its platinum jubilee, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) is intensifying its "socio-spiritual" campaign that aims at reaching out to Dalits, backward communities and tribals, bringing the message of Vedic religion to them.
Devotees would also not be allowed to travel on all routes, including the 10-km-long stairway leading to the shrine.
An organisation for the protection of heritage temples, the Divya Desa Parampariya Padhukappor Peravai today demanded that the ongoing reconstruction work at the Tirumala Hills in Tirupati be halted immediately
Tirumala, the popular hill shrine in Andhra Pradesh, is embroiled in a gold coin scam following the alleged misappropriation of 300 gold coins, worth over Rs 15 lakh.
Naidu set out on the yatra in a specially built campaign bus from Matammagudi (local temple) in a Dalit colony in Rayalapuram village in his native Chittoor district, after seeking divine blessings of Lord Venkateswara at the famed Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanam. With the next Assembly elections barely a year away, Naidu is undertaking the marathon yatra to dethrone the Congress regime led by Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy. Naidu's yatra will enter Nalgonda district from Guntur.
Temple sources said this was her second visit to Tirumala. She had earlier visited the temple on January 28, 1999.
A row is brewing in Andhra Pradesh over the design of pillars to be used at the popular hill shrine of Tirumala, with Sangh Parivar organizations alleging that they resemble the Holy Cross.
Balbir Singh Uppal, a Chandigarh-based industrialist, went for a darshan of Lord Venkateswara during the VIP break and soon after handed over seven pieces of puja items made of gold to TTD deputy executive officer G Balaramaiah.
Thousands of people held celebrations at various places throughout the night to welcome 2020.
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams has brought to the notice of the Reserve Bank of India that fake notes worth Rs 50 lakh in various denominations had been recovered from the Sri Vari 'Hundi.'
The temple is arguably the busiest and richest in the world, with probably only the Vatican matching it.
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam will spend up to Rs 100 crore for the construction of the temple.
The FM channel will primarily be educational.
The bank will be responsible for taking the mixed gold to mint and getting it purified.
According to the officials of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, one of their sanitary workers was badly injured due to the storm and calamitic conditions in the state.
Though the 2000 year-old shrine remains closed in line with the national lockdown, all rituals are being conducted uninterruptedly and flawlessly by the priests
After worshipping at the Sri Ranganayaka Mandapam, the vice president-elect was honoured with the sacred silk cloth and holy prasadams by the management of the shrine.
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, which governs the ancient shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala here, on Wednesday announced that Lord Hanuman's birthplace was Anjanadri, a hillock at Japali Theertham located about 5 km from north of the hill temple.
The new TTD chairman's Venkateswara pendant seems like a simple yet effective tool to silence his critics and to unburden the baggage of his family's religion.
'If you were to say today that the government should appoint judges to the high courts and Supreme Court, then I think that even those few good judges that we are getting today we would not get them.'
Tracing the remaining persons was proving a daunting task as the river remained in spate with over two lakh cusecs of floodwater gushing, sources said.
Deputy Chief Minister N China Rajappa and a host of other ministers also took a holy dip on the occasion.
Some antique jewellery is displayed in a couple of museums in the world.
'Our priority is how to reduce the waiting time for people for darshan.'
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