North Bengal Faces Dual Threat: Darjeeling Landslides and Bhutan Dam Overflow Warning

Oct 05, 2025 04:13 pm CST

North Bengal faces compounding natural disasters as Darjeeling struggles with deadly landslides claiming 17 lives, while simultaneously receiving flood warnings from Bhutan about the Wangchu river overflowing the Tala Hydropower Dam, threatening the already waterlogged districts of Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar.