Recovery of 4 bodies of students who were washed away in Beas River 15 days ago has kept alive hopes of more bodies surfacing as the government under the courts roving eye draws up plans to put in place rules and regulations for releasing water from dams. In the backwaters of Pandoh dam, today four bodies of the students from VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology of Hyderabad were found floating. Telangana Transport Minister Mahender Reddy, who is camping in Himachal Pradesh, said the hunt is on for tracing out the remaining seven bodies. “We will put in continuous efforts until they were fished out. Our personnel are closely watching the search operations”, Mahender Reddy stated. “Out of the ...

A massive search operation resumed Sunday by using a high-tech device that can scan the riverbed full of silt and boulders to locate bodies of 16 engineering students and a tour operator from Hyderabad who were washed away in the Beas river near this town last week. “We deployed to capture pictures of the riverbed to locate the bodies. In this operation, we are using this equipment for the first time,” Jaideep Singh, commanding officer of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), told IANS. In the first four days of the operation, eight bodies were recovered. However, no body was traced in the past two days. Most of the bodies recovered, say officials, were either trapped under the rocks or ...