Lankan PM offers prayers at Lord Balaji temple

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe along with his family offered prayers at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at nearby Tirumala on Friday. On arrival at the 'mahadwaram' (main entrance), the island nation's United National Party president Wickremesinghe and his wife Maitree were accorded a traditional welcome by temple priests and top functionaries of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which governs the 2,000-year old shrine, a temple official told media.