Source: Press Reports
TIRUPATI, INDIA, October 8, 2001: The Andhra Pradesh Government is said to have decided to ask India’s central government to declare the air space over the Tirumala hills, the abode of Lord Venkateswara as “no-fly zone.” Information reaching here said the need for such a move was highlighted at a high-level meeting of senior civil and police officials held at Hyderabad to review the security arrangements in and around the famed Tirumala temple complex in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the U.S, and in view of threats of atacks on landmark and heritage installations in India and elsewhere in the world.