The District Collectors of coastal districts in the State have been put on alert following the threat of "Nilam" cyclone warning issued by Indian Meteorological Department.

Addressing a press confer

The toll in the Nellore train tragedy rose to 33 on Friday morning with the death of Sambasiva Rao, 33, who was admitted to a private hospital in Vadapalani on Monday with 90 per cent burns.

Rao’s re

A day after a sleeper class coach of Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express was gutted in fire near Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, the Government Railway Police (GRP) here has pegged the death toll at 28 and nu

Though some passengers from Tamil Nadu had a miraculous escape from the burning train, they were still inconsolable or worried about ‘missing’ family/friends.

Ms N.S. Veena, 30, going to her native c

A majority of the train passengers who travelled in Tamil Nadu Express were unaware of the emergency window option available in coaches S9 and S10 while coach S11 was burning. The passengers screamed,

In a sheer act of bravery, a man rescued at least 20 persons from the fire that engulfed S11 coach of the Tamil Nadu Express near Nellore in the early hours of Monday. D. Ram Sudhakar, 45, branch man

Monday morning’s fire onboard coach S-11 of the Tamil Nadu Express left many families broken and bereaved. N.S. Veena, 30, a native of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, was seen weeping inconsolably on a hospita

D. Shalini, a city techie from the city, was charred to death in the Nellore train tragedy while two of her friends had a lucky escape. The three software engineers working for Accenture, Chennai, had

A newly-wed couple and the bride’s mother died in the fire that engulfed the Tamil Nadu Express on Monday.
K. Venkataramana, a software engineer, had boarded the train with wife Pallavi and mother-in

Twenty-eight people were charred and 25 injured when a mystery fire engulfed their S11 compartment of the New Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express near Nellore early on Monday. Many of the victims were Ch