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Fire 32 persons are feared dead and many injured as five  coached of the moving Gautami Express caught fire when it was passing through the Warangal district of the state of Andhra Pradesh.early on in the morning on Friday. It is being said that when the train caught fire passengers were sleeping. It was S-10 no bogie that caught the fire first as the train was nearing the Talla-pusalapalli . When the train was stopped it had engulfed some more compartments. The passengers were evacuated and burning bogies were detached as soon as the train stopped. Some of the handicapped students are stated to be missing who were traveling in the next compartment.

Short-Circuit Earlier death toll was stated to be around four but it kept on rising as more than 15 bodies were found. According to the eye witnesses it could rise more as there could be many bodies trapped in the bogies. State Tribal Welfare Minister D S Redya Naik, was the first to visit the spot said that there ware many charred bodies and death toll could rise. According to the authorities cause of the fire was electric short-circuit that resulted in fire. Doors of the compartments jammed because of electricity failure and because of it passengers could not succeed to save themselves from fire. To escape the fire many passengers jumped out of the burning compartments but children and women could not do so. Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has announced that an amount of five lacks will be given to the next of the kin of every deceased and one lakh to the injured as compensation.

Security Measures Indian Railways is one of the the world’s largest transportation network that is considered to be the busiest in the world. For many years it was unable to give profits to the government. That affected its growth. There are lakhs of unmanned railway crossings and the department is slowly but steadily solving its security  problems as for as the security of the passengers is concerned. Fire in the compartments was not because of some negligence but can be said as a misfortune. It was a misfortune that when the fire broke out most of the passengers were sleeping otherwise it could have bee prevented before it could turn into a major catastrophe.

Sydney Olympics Summer Olympics of the year of 2000 were held in the city of Sydney, New South Whales, Australia. Sydney was chosen to host the games on September 23, 1993. The other competitors to host the games were Beijing, Berlin, Istanbul and Manchester. Opening ceremony was organized on September 15 and the closing ceremony was celebrated on the 1^st of October. Though the opening ceremony was celebrated on 15^th of September but the preliminary matches of football had started from 13^th of September. 199 countries took part in the games except Afghanistan which was not allowed to take part in the games because of Taliban regime’s opposition to any kind of games and oppression of women. Four players from East Timor participated in the games under the Olympic Flag. Attraction of the games were Koreans who took part under the unification flag.

Indian Men Though Indian had sent a large number of players to participate in the games but they could not turn the medal search into reality. None of the Indian runners could match the world competition and lost even in their preliminary races. In men’s shot put and Javelin throw none of the Indian could advance the qualifying round. In Badminton Pullela Gopichand perished in the third match. Only Gurbachan Singh could reach the quarterfinal of Men’s heavyweight boxing competition as rest of the boxers lost before the quarter finals. Hockey team one again gave a dismal performance and ended with the seventh place defeating Argentina by 3-1 in the classification match.

Indian Women Karnam Malleswari was the only Indian who could win a medal (Bronze) in the games. She won it in the event of Women’s 69kg Weightlifting category. Though Beena Mol K. M. reached the semifinal of women’s 400m race but could not advance. Both of the women’s 4×100 m relay teams could not advance the first round. Neelam Jaswant Singh and Gurmeet Kaur could not go ahead the qualifying round of discus and javelin throw. In women’s heptathlon Pramila Gudandda Ganapathy and Soma Biswas ended with 24^th and 25^th positions respectively. Badminton player Aparna Popat’s challenge ended even in the first match. In women’s 200 m freestyle swimming Nisha Millet could not advance the preliminary round. It was once again the repetition of the previous games as Indian went into the games with high aspirations and ended with a very little conversion of them into reality.