Bhubaneswar: One person was killed and eight others injured, some of them critically, when one of the fire crackers they were making exploded in a village in Odisha's Puri district, police said on Monday.
The incident occurred at Srikanthapur village under Pipili police station area, about 20 km from state capital Bhubaneswar on Sunday when the men were making the fire crackers in the backyard of a house.
The crackers were being manufactured for use in the procession of a local deity in the village late evening, Ratnakar Mallick, inspector in charge of the local police station, told reporters.
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10:20 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Two women and a child were charred to death and four others injured in an explosion in a firecrackers manufacturing unit in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh Sunday afternoon. The explosion occurred at around 2 pm when 12 persons were working inside the premises of the Bhavani fire crackers manufacturing unit located at Komarrepalem village under Rayavaram mandal of the East Godavari district, police said. ...
05:12 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Is it possible to celebrate Diwali without crackers? Well many clearly don't think so, till then a smokeless Diwali remains a distant future. ...
07:18 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Diwali was less noisy but more polluted with nearly 50 per cent jump in toxic gases. ...
11:50 PM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: In spite of the warnings, the citizens of Delhi burst a huge quantity of crackers on Diwali leading to a thick envelop of smoke in the capital. Compared to last year this time there were fewer fireworks, but the fear of smog came true and by evening smoke from crackers had an adverse impact on Delhis air. As the night progressed it became very difficult to see due...
12:22 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Hyderabad: Dozens of people, mostly children, were injured in accidents during Diwali celebrations in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday night. As many as 25 people, including 12 children, were brought to the government-run Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital in Hyderabad. The children, all aged below 10 years, were admitted with grievous eye injuries sustained while bursting crackers. Concerned parents said some of the children had tried to find out why a cracker...
11:55 AM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: It's the day after Diwali on Wednesday and the pollution control board will release it's data on pollution levels. Experts have warned that crackers would add to toxin levels in the atmosphere and cause the smog around the National Capital Region to return. People in the national capital celebrated Diwali with a loud bang. While the Supreme Court had in 2005 put a ban on the use of...
08:02 AM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: Fire fighters in the national capital attended over 50 calls tonight about fire-related incidents from across the city as Delhiites celebrated Diwali bursting crackers. The fire brigade got calls from almost all parts of the city but almost all of them were minor incidents. In the 20 hours from last midnight, fire fighters received around 70-75 calls reporting fire-related incidents. However, the maximum calls came between 6 pm...
09:40 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Auraiya (UP): Eight persons, including six members of a family, were killed and 12 others injured on Tuesday in an explosion in a house where fire-crackers were being manufactured illegally for the Diwali festival. The explosion took place at the house in Yaqoobpur town in Bela police station area this morning, deputy superintendent of police Ashok Kumar Singh said. A loud explosion was heard after the fire-crackers caught fire, killing...
11:02 AM, Nov 13, 2012
Mumbai: Diwali in the maximum city, Mumbai, will be greener this year, thanks to the efforts of Sumaira Abdulali, an activist with NGO Aawaz Foundation, who for the last ten years has been working tirelessly to make this happen. Maximum city has been recording relatively noise-free Diwalis for the past two years and 2012, too, looks promising. We had asked people to complain to the police or us or on...
08:39 AM, Nov 13, 2012
Kendrapara: With demand for firecrackers swelling during Diwali, children are forced to help manufacture hazardous firecrackers in several villages in Odisha's Kendrapara district. The scene in villages, including Putinga, Keruan, Garapur and Sujanagar, is largely the same. These are hubs of locally made palm-leaf firecrackers. Children sit together making them, mostly at the behest of their parents. "Those who engage children are mostly unaware of the legal embargo on engaging...
03:49 AM, Nov 13, 2012
Vadodara: A major fire broke out at a firecracker market in Vadodara on Saturday. The market had been temporarily set up for the sale of firecrackers for the festival of Diwali. According to sources, ten fire tenders were rushed to the spot. There have been no reports of damages or injuries to anyone so far. More details are awaited. ...
05:44 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Sivakasi: In yet another case of fire in the cracker-making hub of Sivakasi, at least three people died on Friday. The fire broke out on Friday morning in a house resulting in the tragedy. Even though the fire was put out quickly, three people had already died. Earlier, on September 5 as many as 39 persons were killed and 49 injured when fire broke out in a private cracker factory...
12:03 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Virudhunagar: As many as 233 firecracker units in Virudhunagar district were being issued show-cause notice by the district administration for violations. Also, the licenses of 48 units were suspended so far, said R Raju, District Revenue Officer of Virudhunagar. In the wake of the fire tragedy at a cracker unit in Mudalippatti village near Virudhunagar that claimed 39 lives, the State Government intensified inspections of cracker factories located in the...
12:33 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Sivakasi: Images of the recent accident in Sivakasi are still fresh. But locals here seem to have resigned themselves to a fate of playing with fire. Rajeshwari lost here husband and son in a similar accident three years ago. Her elder son still works at one of the fireworks factories and has no choice. Rajeshwari says, "It's a necessity to do the job. He didn't know anything else but this....
09:10 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Chennai: The owner of the cracker factory in Sivakasi that was gutted in a fire on Wednesday has been arrested. Five others have also been arrested. This came after the investigations into the cause of the fire threw up some startling facts. The police confirmed that the plant was operating illegally when the fatal fire broke out. It had been inspected less than 24 hours earlier and ordered to close...
09:25 AM, Sep 06, 2012
Chennai: The investigations into the cause of the fire that gutted a fire cracker factory in Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday have thrown up some startling facts. The police have confirmed that the plant was operating illegally when the fatal fire broke out. It had been inspected less than 24 hours earlier and ordered to close temporarily due to violations. But the factory owners did not comply, a decision...
07:33 AM, Sep 06, 2012
Many people were also trapped inside the Om Shakti Cracker factory in Sivakashi. ...
02:35 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Hyderabad: The fire on Tamil Nadu Express that killed 34 passengers near Nellore on July 30 was caused by fire-crackers, according to officials of the Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory here. The officials submitted a comprehensive report to the Government Railway Police here on Wednesday. APFSL director O. Narasimha Murthy told Express that they found out that the major fire broke out from the running train due to burning of...
01:05 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory experts have found traces of chemicals used in fire-crackers from the samples collected from the ill-fated Tamil Nadu Express which caught fire on Monday last, killing 34 passengers till date. The experts are, however, are not forthcoming whether crackers caused the fire in coach S-11. An APFSL team visited the train and collected samples. Among other pieces of evidence, the forensic team is...
10:27 AM, Aug 06, 2012
