Overview
- Suryakumar Yadav and Devisha Shetty offered prayers at Tirumala’s Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple on Vaikunta Ekadashi, with PTI and IANS videos documenting the visit.
- TTD officials facilitated their darshan through the Vaikuntha Dwaram, after which priests blessed the couple and offered Tirtha Prasadam and vestments.
- India batter Tilak Varma also visited the shrine on Tuesday, with agency reports noting arrangements by TTD for his darshan.
- The captain’s 2025 T20I returns were modest at 218 runs in 19 innings without a fifty, even as he continues to lead India into final preparations.
- A video surfaced of actress Khushi Mukherjee claiming Suryakumar had messaged her in the past, a one-sided allegation to which he has not publicly responded, while he is slated for early-January domestic games before a Jan 21–31 T20I series vs New Zealand and the World Cup from Feb 7.