IIT-Tirupati signs MoU with CEMS Vizag

IIT-Tirupati signs MoU with CEMS Vizag

IIT-Tirupati Director K.N. Satyanarayana and CEMS CEO Gopi Krishna Sivvam signing the copies of MoU, at the IIT campus on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ARRANGEMENT Indian Institute of Technology-Tirupati (IIT-T) signed an MoU with the Centre of Excellence in Maritime and Shipbuilding (CEMS), Visakhapatnam, marking a key step in strengthening industry-academic collaboration in advanced manufacturing … Read more

TTD allots plot for guest house, fourth time in two decades

TTD allots plot for guest house, fourth time in two decades

The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has once again allotted a plot to board member Janga Krishnamurthy for building a guest house at Tirumala, a process that has been repeating for twenty years. The TTD trust board, at its recent meeting, resolved to allot plot No. 2 at Balaji Nagar atop Tirumala to Mr. Janga Krishnamurthy … Read more

Remarks against PM Modi’s mother: BJP cadre burn Rahul Gandhi’s effigy in Tirupati

Remarks against PM Modi’s mother: BJP cadre burn Rahul Gandhi’s effigy in Tirupati

BJP workers protested by burning the effigy of Rahul Gandhi to protest that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi would not speak obscenely on the Prime Minister, at Trunk Road in Ongole on September 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Members of Mahila Morcha, the women’s wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), burnt the effigy … Read more

YSRCP protests against power tariff hike in Tirupati

YSRCP protests against power tariff hike in Tirupati

A YSRCP delegation, led by district president Bhumana Karunakar Reddy, returning after submitting a representation to APSPDCL in Tirupati on Friday. | Photo Credit: K.V. POORNACHANDRA KUMAR Leaders of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) took out demonstrations across Tirupati district on Friday (December 27) against the hike in power tariff. Led by party Tirupati district … Read more

Chandrababu Naidu lands in Tirupati to participate in funeral rites of his brother

Chandrababu Naidu lands in Tirupati to participate in funeral rites of his brother

Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu being greeted by MLAs Bojjala Sudheer Reddy and Gali Bhanuprakash on his arrival at the Tirupati airport late on Wednesday evening. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu landed at the Renigunta airport on Wednesday (November 27, 2024) evening to participate in the funeral rites of his younger brother Nara Ramamurthy Naidu, … Read more

Former MLA Kovai Selvaraj dies in Tirupati

Former MLA Kovai Selvaraj dies in Tirupati

 Kovai K. Selvaraj. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Former MLA Kovai K. Selvaraj, who had a political career in the Congress, AIADMK and DMK, died in Tirupati on Friday. Sources close to his family said that Mr. Selvaraj suffered a cardiac arrest in Tirupati, where he had gone along with the family for his son’s … Read more

New rock structure surfaces near Chandragiri Fort

New rock structure surfaces near Chandragiri Fort

A new rock structure comprising stone slabs, believed to be belonging to the 11th century, surfaced very close to the Chandragiri Fort, one of the three capitals of the erstwhile Vijayanagara Empire, recently. The structure was unearthed when a farmer, Shaik Mujib, was using an earthmover to till his farm located close to the fort. … Read more

Four pilgrims from Nellore killed in road accident near Tirupati

Four pilgrims from Nellore killed in road accident near Tirupati

Four people died on the spot and two sustained grievous injuries when the car in which they were travelling rammed into a culvert wall near Kongaravaripalle village in Chandragiri mandal, 15 km from Tirupati, on the Tirupati-Bengaluru National Highway in the early hours of May 27 (Sunday).  The deceased hailing from Narasapuram in Indukurupeta mandal of … Read more

Tirupati lights up with Holi colours

Tirupati lights up with Holi colours

Revellers spraying colour on each other as part of Holi celebrations in Tirupati on Monday. Spraying of colours and splashing of water jets marked the Holi celebrations across Tirupati on Monday. The various educational campuses were abuzz with elation, as students played Holi with effervescence and zeal. The fervour was especially felt in the upmarket … Read more

Congress to launch protest against construction of ₹450 crore mega complexes by demolishing choultries in Tirupati

Congress to launch protest against construction of ₹450 crore mega complexes by demolishing choultries in Tirupati

Senior Congress leader Chinta Mohan. | Photo Credit: File Photo Chinta Mohan, on January 4 (Thursday), demanded the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) and the State government immediately drop the plans to construct mega complexes in the place of the second and third choultries in Tirupati, at a cost of ₹450 crore, and instead, use the … Read more