Members of the Hindu Chaitanya Samithi and other Hindu organisations staged a protest on Tuesday demanding an immediate halt to the construction of the Mumtaz Hotel near the Sri Venkateswara Zoological Park in Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati. One of the protestors, Swami Srinivasananda, said that they welcomed the decision of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Board to reclaim the land near Alipiri, where …
The newly appointed board of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, at its first meeting presided over by chairman BR Naidu, passed several resolutions on Monday, at the Annamayya Bhavan in Tirumala. At the TTD governing council meeting, Naidu said: “Whatever land of 25 acres was given by the tourism department, Chandrababu Naidu had earlier wanted to start a project called ‘Devalokam’. …