Two more bodies have been recovered from river Beas. The deceased students whose bodies have been recovered have been identified as Dasari Srinidhi, daughter of Raja Reddy, resident of Karim Nagar in  Hyderabad and Kasarla Reddy, daughter of Krishna Reddy of Bachupally area in Hyderabad. The recovered bodies belong to the group of 24 engineering students of Hyderabad-based VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, who were washed away in the Beas at Thalout in Mandi district after sudden release of water from the Larji dam on June 8. Today is the 42nd day after the tragedy and the team which is overseeing the rescue and search operation at the Pandoh dam site informed the families of the 2 students ...

Rescue agencies Sunday continued their massive operation to search for the missing Hyderabad students and a tour operator by using a high-tech echo sounder device that scanned the Beas riverbed but failed to locate any bodies. Following this, Telangana home minister Nayani Narsimha Reddy on Sunday announced a cash award of Rs. 10,000 and an award certificate to locals to help trace bodies of the missing engineering students from Hyderabad who were washed away in Beas river last week. The Home Minister said that he would be returning to Hyderabad but declared that the search operation will continue until the last body is recovered. “We deployed side scan sonar to capture pictures of the riverbed to locate the bodies. It showed good images (of ...