Eight students injured after tree fell on car in Kalimpong
Press Trust of India | April 8, 2025 | 08:54 PM IST | 1 min read
The accident happened around 2:30 pm in a forested area on the NH-10 when the students were returning to Siliguri from Pelling in West Sikkim.
GANGTOK: Eight students were injured after a tree fell on their vehicle, which then veered into a roadside ditch in West Bengal's Kalimpong district on Tuesday, police said. The accident happened around 2.30 pm in a forested area on the NH-10 when the students were returning to Siliguri from Pelling in West Sikkim, they said.
All the injured were students of Netaji Mahavidyalaya. They were returning home after an educational trip to Sikkim, police said. "Immediate assistance was provided by locals and authorities, who rushed to the scene and transported the injured to medical facilities in Siliguri," an official said. "Their current condition is being monitored," he said.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Quick Watch
]Next Story
]Beti Bachao Beti Padhao: Declining funds, fluctuating expenditures; budget drops below launch year
10 years of BBBP Scheme: Of the total expenditure, around 80%, Rs 135.92 crore was spent on media campaigns, indicating that the government intensified the scheme’s outreach during 2018.
Anu Parthiban | 1 min readFeatured News
]- ‘Hacker’s bent of mind’: IIT Kanpur, Madras B.Cybersecurity course to train ‘cyber warriors’, says in-charge
- A decade on, Mahatma Gandhi Central University has 5 campuses, none permanent; CAG flags lapses
- Visva-Bharati: SC, ST, OBC forum seeks audit of VBU’s spending, recruitment; writes to education ministry
- MGCU Motihari’s expulsion of MA student unfair; Patna HC orders university to reinstate him
- Maharashtra: MAFSU Nagpur gets first pvt veterinary, dairy technology colleges, doubles BVSc & AH seats
- West Bengal forms panel to decide fate of 933 schools with no students, may hand buildings to other depts
- ‘Not individual failure’: IIT Bombay students protest suicide, want director to quit, action against professor
- West Bengal crackdown on 252 ‘unrecognised’ madrassas leave parents scrambling for alternatives
- NEET PG Counselling: NMC frames branch-specific guidelines for MD, MS admissions of disabled candidates
- IIT Ropar: Faculty ‘harassment’, forced resignation, a self-argued case – how a scholar won her PhD seat back