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Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh), Nov. 4 : About 7,600 couples tied the nuptial knot at the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam Board of the famed Sri Venkateshwara Temple under the ‘Kalyanamasthu’ programme.

The Sri Venkateswara Temple, is popularly known as the Balaji Temple, and is one of the most frequented pilgrim centres by Hindus.

Of the 7600 weddings, 69 tied the nuptial knot at Tirupati.

The creation of a new Telangana state, on Friday received the backing of film actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi's fledgling Praja Rajyam, thus mounting pressure on ruling Congress, the only major stakeholder in Andhra Pradesh resisting the popular demand.

Addressing a gathering at Jagityal in Karimnagar, a seat represented in the Lok Sabha by TRS Chief K Chandrasekhara Rao, Chiranjeevi said his party would not stand in the way of a long-standing demand. He is the latest politician to become a Telangana proponent, just days after TDP chief and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu also did a U-turn on the issue.

Hyderabad, Oct 26 : An environmental activist in Hyderabad has come out with a novel idea to support a ban on smoking in public places. He has prepared a motorbike shaped like a cigar by scrap.

M. K. Sudhakar is already registered in the Guinness Book of World Records for making the largest tricycle in the world.

To make people break the habit of smoking, he literally hacked the cigar-shaped motorbike into pieces in full public view.

Country's leading credit rating agency ICRA Limited (ICRA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Andhra Bank.

Under the arrangement, ICRA will assign Bank Loan ratings to the Bank's loans and its other exposures under the standardized approach of RBI's New Capital Adequacy Framework for Basel-II. 

ICRA's ratings for the standardized approach would be carried out under its "Line of Credit" rating service and would enable Andhra Bank to assign the new risk weights applicable to its borrowers under Basel-II. 

Kirloskar Brothers Ltd has informed that its joint venture christened SCL-INDU-KBL-WEG, has received a contract worth Rs 1446 crore from the Government of Andhra Pradesh Irrigation and CAD Dept. for Pranahitha - Chevella lift Irrigation Scheme-Link VII-Package No.22. 

The scope of work involves Investigation, Designs, Execution of Lift Irrigation Scheme for drawal / Lifting of 11.5 TMC of water in 120 days from foreshore of Kondam Cheruvu near Manchippa Village, Nizamabad (M), Nizamabad District by water conveyor system with all associated components.