Students injured as classroom wall collapses in Bihar school

September 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday ordered an inquiry into the tragic death of five students following a stampede at a government school located in East Delhi due to rumours of short circuit caused by heavy rain. According to souses, Dikshit ordered the probe after taking stock of the situation and meeting the critically injured students, who are being treated in the Guru Tegh Bahadur (GTB) Hospital.

September 10th, 2009 Stampede kills 5 at Indian schoolNEW DELHI — Hundreds of students jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left at least five students dead and another 24 injured, a New Delhi hospital official said. Five of the injured were in critical condition, said O.P.

August 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - A mother and her son share the same classroom space as students in a West Bengal school. Mother Anima Das, 35, and her son Palash are students of Class 11 in Basirhat Dandirhaat Nagendra Kumar Higher Secondary school in Kolkata's neighbouring North 24-Parganas district.

August 1st, 2009 A class III girl student from Dalit community studying in a government middle school was stripped naked in the presence of the school teacher by some boys of the same school in Bihar, according to a late-reaching report. The incident which relates to an upgraded middle school in Mohanpur block of Samastipur district took place on July 25 but came to light when the Dalit girls stopped attending the schools.

July 31st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Three former students of a government school here who were under suspension entered the school and one of them slapped a teacher while she was taking a class, police said. According to police, a case was registered against the three teenaged boys Friday after a formal complaint was received from the principal of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, Thursday.

June 18th, 2009 SHIMLA - Students in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district had a narrow escape Thursday when the roof of their school collapsed, officials said. More than 100 students had a miraculous escape when the roof of our school collapsed this (Thursday) afternoon, school principal Anup Rani told IANS on phone.

March 31st, 2009 SRINAGAR - Eighteen girls were injured when the roof of their school in a north Kashmir town collapsed Tuesday, police said. The accident occurred when the roof of Noor-ul-Islam girls' school in old town area of Baramulla collapsed Tuesday morning.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ten students of a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) school here suffered injuries after being beaten by their teacher for making noise in the classroom. The students of Class 3 in the MCD school, New Ashok Nagar, in east Delhi were beaten with a cane by Raj Kumar Wednesday, a police officer said.

March 7th, 2009 NOIDA - Two schoolchildren were injured Friday when the car they were riding in was hit by a private bus here, the police said. According to police sources, Kshitij and Satyam - both students of Army Public School in Sector 29 - were going to their school at 8.00 a.m.

February 16th, 2009 PATNA - A school teacher who had won the President's Award was shot dead while he was teaching in his classroom in a Bihar town Tuesday, the police said. Tun Bahadur, a teacher in the Marahiya primary school in Khagaria district, was murdered by unidentified men in front of students, the police said.

February 15th, 2009 PATNA - Three people were killed and four injured Monday when a buiridge under construction over a rail line collapsed in Bihar, an official said. The incident took place at Amgola in Muzaffarpur district, about 70 km from here.

January 25th, 2009 RANCHI - Six children were injured when the roof of a government school collapsed during the Republic Day celebrations in the Godda district of Jharkhand Monday, a police officer here said. Hundreds of children gathered to participate in the Republic Day function at a school in the Pratappur block of Godda district, 550 km from here.

January 25th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Thirty students were injured, four of them critically, when a wall collapsed in a school in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh Monday, the police said. 'The incident took place at around 3 p.m.

January 9th, 2009 PATNA - Bihar school teachers who allegedly burnt books meant for students to keep warm on a chilly winter day are likely to face police action after a case was registered against them, officials said Saturday. A case has been lodged against the teachers of a school in Gaya district after panchayat (village administrative body) head Shyamdeo Prasad Gupta filed a complaint with the police, the officials said.

December 29th, 2008 NAGPUR - A 14-year-old student was killed and 13 others were injured when a speeding truck rammed into a school classroom in a crowded city area Tuesday, a police official said. The accident occurred shortly after noon when the truck driver lost control over the vehicle and crashed into a classroom of Prakash Agriculture School in east Nagpur's Pardi locality, according to the official.