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Srirangam temple getting ready for Vaikunda Ekadasi celebrations from December 30 to January 20

A coordination meeting of officials of various government departments was held at the Collectorate here on Friday in connection with the preparations for the ‘Vaikunta Ekadasi’ festival at Srirangam Sri Renganathaswamy temple. Presided over by Collector M. Pradeep Kumar, the meeting was attended by Commissioner of Police N. Kamini, District Revenue Officer R. Rajalakshmi and the temple’s Joint Commissoner / …

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The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams has announced that online tickets for the Vaikunta Dwara Darshan at the Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala will be available for booking from 11 a.m. on December 23, while the ₹300 Special Entry Darshan tickets will be available online from 11 a.m. on December 24. The auspicious Vaikunta Ekadasi will be celebrated at the Tirumala temple …

Religious ecstasy marked the Vaikunta Ekadasi festival at the temple of Lord Venkateswara, here on Saturday. Thousands of devotees who had congregated in front of the main temple complex went into raptures as the priests formally unlocked the huge wooden doors and the air was electrified with their rhythmic chanting of ‘‘Govinda, Govinda’‘ laced with the sonorous blowing of conches …

P. Jayaraman, Joint Commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department, Chennai, on Monday inspected the arrangements at the Srirangam Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in connection with the ongoing Vaikunta Ekadasi festival that commenced on December 12. Accompanied by the temple’s Joint Commissioner Mariappan and HR&CE department officials, Mr. Jayaraman spent over three hours at the temple complex. Mr. Jayaraman inspected …

District Collector M. Pradeep Kumar on Friday held a coordination meeting with officials of all government departments regarding the arrangements to be made in advance in connection with the Vaikunta Ekadasi festival to be held from December 12 to January 2 at the Srirangam Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple. The Collector asked the police to put in place necessary security besides traffic …

Hyderabad: All roads led to the colourfully decked up Lord Venkateshwara temples on Vaikunta Ekadasi on Monday with devotees standing in long queues from early morning seeking divine blessings. I, like many others, opened my stall at 3 am.” Local police officials informed that security arrangements were made, disaster response force deployed for emergences and traffic police were brought in …

VIPs throng Tirumala temple on Vaikunta Ekadasi

TIRUPATI: Elected representatives from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and other states, judges, bureaucrats, celebrities and other VIPs thronged the hill temple in Tirumala on Monday, marking the Vaikunta Ekadasi, for darshan of Lord Venkateswara. The VIPs included former Union minister Prakash Javadekar, Tamil Nadu High Court acting chief justice T. Raja, AP High Court judges Justice T. Rajasekhar Rao, Justice V. …

Temples decked up for Vaikunta Ekadasi

HYDERABAD: Temples were decked up for the auspicious Hindu day of Vaikunta Ekadasi, which falls on Monday this year. The famous Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple in Yadadri will open its north gate for the first time since the renovation was completed. We are expecting a large number of devotees.” The TTD temples in Himayatnagar and Jubilee Hills, the Venkateshwara Swamy …

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TIRUPATI: Over 1.5 lakh devotees have secured time-slotted free Sarva Darshan tokens for Vaikunta Dwara Darshan at the Tirumala temple in a hassle-free manner in Tirupati, up to 6pm on Sunday. Keeping in view the past experiences, the temple administration has set up nearly 100 counters at nine different centres in Tirupati to issue 4.5 lakh free SSD tokens pertaining …