Kummuri Balayya was the regular driver of the ill-fated AP 23X 5349 school bus of Kakatiya Techno School and he drove that bus for 4 months before he took a day off on July 24. That day he his uncle passed away in wee hours of morning forcing Balayya to arrange his friend Bikshapathi to do his duty for a day, with the permission of school management. Now, he just wishes he was at work that fateful day. At 9.30 am when he was on his way to the funeral of his uncle, he had received a call from the principal of the school breaking the news about a train slamming into the bus at an unmanned railway crossing. the accident. Balayya’s BP ...

11 year old Vaishnavi who was critically injured in the Medak train-bus collision on July 24, succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday. 18 children passed away in the incident. Two children, Prashanth and Varun are in very critical condition, while another kid Sharath, who suffured a major lung injury, is in the critical ward under close observation. All kids are aged around 7. Six children Nabira Fathima (9), Darshan Goud (6), Harish (7), Sirisha (8), Sravani (6), and Nithusha (7) have improved and have been shifted to the general ward. 7 more kids have been discharged after recovering. Despite being discharged, some families are reluctant to go back to their villages due to lack of proper medical facilities and transportation.

Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao today handed over exgratia of Rs 5 lakh, Rs 2 lakh on behalf of the State Government and Railways to the 14 families of those deceased in Masaipet Rail accident.  Along with Deputy Speaker Padma Devender Reddy he met the victims’ families and consoled them. He also given them an assurance for insurance amount of Rs 1 lakh. The minister mentioned how moved is the state government with the accident and the victims and said with CM’s orders,soon after the accident news reached the Government, the ministers immediately swung into action to rescue injured kids and get them treated. We have saved 20 kids with prompt actions, claimed the minister. The minister mentioned how the CM went to hospital ...

After realizing a mix-up in identifying bodies of kids who died in Medak train tragedy, the body of a six-year-old boy, Dattu, one of the victims of Thursday’s tragic school bus-train collision in Telangana’s Medak district, is exhumed and handed over to his parents Veera Babu and Neeraja of Islampur village. The body of Dattu was mistaken as that of Danush alias Darshan Goud and handed over to the latter’s parents on Thursday when a shell-shocked father Swamy Goud assumed it is his son. However, Danush woke up in Yashoda hospital and identified himself and named his parents. By that time, Dattu was buried on Friday. When informed, Swami Goud and his wife rushed to the hospital and identified their son, on what is the boy’s ...

It is like “rebirth” for six-year-old Darshan Goud, who was mistakenly believed to have been killed in the terrible train-school bus collision at an unmanned railway crossing that left 16 persons, including 14 children, dead in Telangana’s Medak district. In a case of mistaken identity, the boy’s father, Swamy Goud, was handed over a “body” as his son yesterday, and the sorrowful parents performed last rites subsequently. As Darshan gained consciousness today in a hospital where he was rushed after the mishap, he revealed his father’s name. The grieving parents were informed that their son is still undergoing treatment at a private hospital. After reaching the hospital today, Swamy Goud was greeted by his son whose birthday falls today, said ...