Wailing relatives demanding bodies of the victims who died in Mahbubnagar bus inferno accident, at AP Forensic Laboratory in Hyderabad on Thursday.
Academy award-winning play 'Mathi' by Malayala Kalanilayam, Koothuparambu being staged at the 9th Ajayan Memorial Theatre Fest at Vyloppilli Samskriti Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. The play is directed by Jino Joseph - DC/A.V. Muzafar
Congress leaders attend a prayer meet marking the 29th death anniversary of former PM late Indira Gandhi at Indira Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday - DC/Peethambaran Payyeri
Kids dressed up ahead of a dance competition at the cultural fest 'Saraswatam-2013' of Saraswati Vidyanikethan in Kochi on Thursday - DC/Vinod Karimatt
Kunju Mani, son of Jose K. Mani and grandson of K.M. Mani gets a kiss on his tonsured head from his mother Nisha Jose. Nisha was the first hair donor in the initiative.
Hair stylist Viji Kumarapuram cuts off Maithri Sreekanth's hair to contribute it to 'Hair for Hope - India', an initiative aimed at providing wigs to cancer patients, at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. Nisha Jose, wife of Jose
Over 200 students, doctors and staff of Co-operative Medical College took part in ‘Care Can Cure’, a ‘Pinkathlon’ aimed at spreading awareness on cancer in Kochi on on Thursday - DC/Arunchandra Bose
In a novel form of protest, Vetar Maha Sabha activists staged Mudiyattom, a traditional art form, in front of the Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. They were demanding the enlisting of the Vetar community in the Scheduled Cast - DC/
LDF activists burn an effigy of CM Oomen Chandy near the Kochi Metro Rail Limited office in Kochi on Thursday. Chandy came to attend a review meeting of the metro project - DC/Arunchandra Bose
Kerala CM Oomen Chandy having a word with Daisy Jacob, wife of former minister T.M. Jacob, at a commemoration meet of the late leader in Kochi on Thursday – DC/Arunchandra Bose
Kerala CM Oommen Chandy, who had proclaimed his lack of belief in birthday celebrations, stuck to his word when Hiby Eden MLA brought a specially designed cake to the CM on his 70th birthday on Thursday. The CM, who was attending a meeting on the
Ashiq Abu offers sweets to his Rima Kallingal at the event. Their register marriage will take place at the Kakkanad office on November 1, Friday.
Malayalam film director Aashiq Abu with his fiancée actor Rima Kallingal with P. Rajeev MP and Hiby Eden MLA arriving at the Ernakulam General Hospital on Thursday. The director-actor couple donated Rs 10 lakh to cancer patients of GH. They had
Nissan cars at Ennore Port during its export - PTI
Nissan Motor India Pvt. Ltd. (NMIPL) president Kenichiro Yomura flagging-off of the 300000th car for export from Ennore Port Ltd. (EPL) at Ennore Port in Chennai on Thursday - PTI
A traffic police personnel stops his two-wheeler beyond the stop line while on red signal along with other motorists at the YMCA junction at SD road in Hyderabad on Thursday - DC/Gandhi
Emad Saif Mohammed, a MBA student and Mohd Ali, a degree student, were apprehended after sleuths of Commissioner's Task Force (West Zone) raided a premises on a tip-off that the duo was selling Khat leaves to fellow foreigners after procuring the
Picture shows the 25 bundles of Khat leaves seized from the duo - DC/Gandhi
Two Yemeni students were arrested from the posh Banjara Hills area in Hyderabad on Thursday for selling Khat leaves, a narcotic drug - DC/Gandhi
Andhra Pradesh Deputy chief Minister Damodar Raja Narasimha and Congress leaders Botsa Satyanarayana, D. Nagender , MLC Mohammad Ali Shabbir MLC paying tributes to late Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary in Hyderabad on Thursday.
Leaders shout slogans in front of the statue of Sardar Patel.
Congress leaders Botsa Satyanarayana, D. Nagender and BJP leaders Bandaru Dattatreya, G. Kishan Reddy were present at the event.
BJP and Congress leaders met up with each other as they arrived to pay tributes at the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his birth anniversary in Hyderabad on Thursday.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy garlanding the statue of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary in Visakhapatnam on Thursday. Minister Ganta Srinivasarao is also seen.
Haj pilgrims on their arrival from Mecca at at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on Thursday.
Commuters look on as the girl, covered in greens, campaigns in the city.
A PETA activist, holding a placard that reads 'Eat Green – Go Vegan', campaigns in Hyderabad on Thursday.
People inquiring about the bodies of their relatives, who died in the Mahbubnagar bus fire accident, in Hyderabad on Thursday.
The DNA reports are likely to come in 8-10 days, reports said. Picture shows another wailing relative of a victim.
According to Dr Mohammad Taqiuddin Khan, Head of OGH Forensic and Toxicology Department, blood samples of as many as 84 people have been taken to identify the bodies of 42 victims.
The charred bodies are being kept at Osmania Hospital in Hyderabad.
Relatives of the bus accident victims with officials at the AP Forensic Science Laboratory in Hyderabad on Thursday.
More people rushed to the AP Forensic Laboratory in Hyderabad on Thursday. The authorities took the blood samples of the relatives to ascertain the identity of victims of the tragic bus fire mishap through DNA test.
Only seven persons, including driver Feroz Pasha and the cleaner, could escape. Pasha later told the police that he had fallen asleep at the wheel resulting in the accident.
Sarala, right, mother of Raghuveer (photograph displayed by a relative), who was killed in the bus fire accident weeps outside the mortuary of Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad on Thursday.
Forty-five passengers, many of them returning home for Deepavali, were charred to death when a speeding bus exploded in a ball of fire after its sleepy driver hit a railing on the Hyderabad-Bengaluru highway early on Wednesday morning.
Andhra Pradesh and South India in pictures: October 31