school safety

New Delhi, March 17 A 60-foot iron bridge, declared unsafe but used daily by hundreds of school students to cross a drain in north Delhi, collapsed on Tuesday morning, killing a woman. With a major tragedy averted, the Delhi government ordered an investigation into the incident and a city-wide...

New Delhi, March 17 Hundreds of students on their way to school had crossed the 60-foot iron bridge over a drain in north Delhi's Roop Nagar on Tuesday morning, shortly before it collapsed, killing one woman, locals said.The tragedy could have been much bigger, they said. The bridge, which...

Jaipur, March 16 Two students, aged five and six, were injured after a ceiling fan inside a classroom at a government school in the Barmer district fell on them on Monday morning, officials said.The incident occurred at an upper primary school in the Sansiyon Ka Tala area shortly after the...

Ahmedabad, March 11 – The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has placed Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on a 'yellow alert' due to forecasts of sharply rising temperatures over the next week. The mercury is expected to reach around 41 degrees Celsius, and heatwave-like conditions are anticipated on...

New Delhi, March 11 Nominated Rajya Sabha MP Sudha Murty raised the issue of bullying of children in schools on Wednesday and urged the government to enact a mandatory national framework that includes emotional sensitivity training.During the Special Mention, Murty said, "I draw the attention...

Thane, March 7 In an effort to improve student safety, the administration in Thane district of Maharashtra has installed CCTV systems in 524 Zilla Parishad schools, and the process will be completed in the remaining 805 schools by April, an official said on Saturday.The initiative, being...

Islamabad, March 2 Over 50 educational institutions in districts bordering Afghanistan were closed on Monday following a drone attack on a school in northwest Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said.The incident occurred in the Ghalanai tehsil of the Mohmand district...

Jaipur, March 1 The roof of a classroom in a government school in the Bharatpur district of Rajasthan suddenly collapsed on Saturday afternoon, an official said.No one was injured as the teacher had evacuated the students in time.A video of the incident surfaced on social media on Sunday...

Chandigarh, February 27 Two private schools in Chandigarh received bomb threat emails on Friday, prompting authorities to conduct anti-sabotage checks, officials said.Firefighters, bomb disposal squads, police dogs, and an ambulance were dispatched to the schools, and security was increased on...

Mumbai, February 25 Maharashtra Ports Development Minister and BJP leader Nitesh Rane on Wednesday termed madrasas "breeding grounds for terrorists" and said he would urge Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to shut down the Islamic schools in the state.Speaking to reporters on the Vidhan Bhavan...

New Delhi, February 24 The Delhi government has begun a city-wide digital profiling of its schools, adopting a data-driven and assessment-first approach to evaluate school infrastructure and safety, officials said on Tuesday.The initiative, which started on Monday, involves detailed digital...

Dehradun, February 23 Employee organizations, insisting on the arrest of BJP MLA Umesh Sharma Kau in connection with the assault on Uttarakhand Director of Elementary Education Ajay Naudiyal, have issued an ultimatum to close all state offices from Wednesday if their demands are not met.On...

New Delhi, February 23 – Army Public School in Dhaula Kuan, Delhi, reportedly received a bomb threat via email on Monday, prompting authorities to launch an investigation.Teams from the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) and the police have been deployed at the school, and further details are pending...

Noida, February 19 – Nearly a dozen schools in Noida received bomb threat emails on Thursday, causing panic among students, parents, and school staff, even as the CBSE Board examinations entered their third day.Officials said the threats were received via email. Soon after the alerts were...

New Delhi, February 19 At least three schools in Delhi received bomb threats via email on Thursday morning, prompting swift evacuation and search operations by emergency agencies, an official of the Delhi Fire Services said."We received information about bomb threat emails sent to three...

Ahmedabad/Vadodara, February 16 At least 28 schools in Ahmedabad and Vadodara in Gujarat received bomb threat emails on Monday, following which the campuses were evacuated, officials said.Search operations were immediately undertaken, they said, adding that nothing suspicious has been found so...

Ahmedabad/Vadodara, February 16 – At least 13 schools across Ahmedabad and Vadodara were evacuated on Monday after receiving a series of bomb threat emails, leading to extensive security checks.Officials stated that seven schools in Ahmedabad and six in Vadodara had been confirmed as...

Tumakuru (Karnataka), February 13 A six-year-old first-grade student is alleged to have lost two fingers when she got stuck in a door at a government primary school in this district, police said on Friday.The incident occurred in the village of Goolur, in the Tumakuru taluk, and police have...

New Delhi, February 13 At least three schools in Delhi received bomb threat emails on Friday morning, prompting authorities to launch search operations, a Delhi Fire Services (DFS) official said.One of the schools – BT Tamil School – in central Delhi's Jhandewalan, informed the DFS about the...

Chandigarh, February 11 Sixteen private schools in Mohali, Punjab, received bomb threat emails on Wednesday, triggering evacuations and prompting detailed anti-sabotage checks by the police, an official said.No suspicious or explosive material was found at any of the locations after thorough...