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Nayagarh: In the wake of a firecracker explosion that left one dead and five persons critically injured in Korada village under Nuagaon police station limits, Nayagarh Police have intensified enforcement measures, conducting raids on firecracker warehouses across the district. Acting on the directions of the Superintendent of Police (SP), police teams carried out searches at multiple firecracker warehouses in the Itamati and Nayagarh Sadar police station areas. During the operation, firecracker ...Read More >
A man lost his life and a 13-year-old girl sustained critical injuries in an explosion at an "illegally run" firecracker manufacturing unit inside a house on the outskirts of Jodhan village on Tuesday evening, police said. The deceased has been identified as Kaif Shah. The injured girl is Alisha, they said. According to police officials, nearly 15 people were on the premises at the time of the blast. While most managed to escape unhurt, two persons were trapped under the debris. The injured gir ...Read More >
VIRUDHUNAGAR: Highlighting the ganja menace in the State, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday said he would eradicate it completely in three months if voted to power. Campaigning in Sivakasi for AIADMK candidate KT Rajenthra Bhalaji, he alleged police could not eradicate the menace because those selling ganja were DMK supporters due to which police could not take action. "Even police personnel are not safe, they are being attacked by those under the influence of the subst ...Read More >
Krishna ( Andhra Pradesh) [India], March 31 (ANI): At least 4 police personnel, including a Sub-Inspector, sustained injuries on Tuesday morning after seized firecrackers accidentally exploded at the Challapalli Police Station in Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh. According to the police, an explosion occurred at Challapalli Police Station in Krishna district. The police had earlier seized illegally stored firecrackers and were supposed to submit them in court. On Tuesday morning, when court c ...Read More >
Challapalli (Andhra Pradesh), Mar 31 (PTI) Six police personnel were injured in an explosion at a police station here in Krishna district on Tuesday while shifting the seized firecrackers for disposal as per court orders, a police official said. The police had conducted a special drive against unauthorised firecracker storage units and seized large quantities of explosives, which were stored safely at an external facility at the police station. "We had seized unauthorised firecrackers during a ...Read More >
Krishna ( Andhra Pradesh) [India], March 31 (ANI): At least 4 police personnel, including a Sub-Inspector, sustained injuries on Tuesday morning after seized firecrackers accidentally exploded at the Challapalli Police Station in Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh. According to the police, an explosion occurred at Challapalli Police Station in Krishna district. The police had earlier seized illegally stored firecrackers and were supposed to submit them in court. On Tuesday morning, when court c ...Read More >
Jaipur, Feb 16 (PTI) Seven people were burnt alive in an illegal firecracker-manufacturing factory in the Bhiwadi town of Rajasthan's Khairthal-Tijara district on Monday, officials said. "Seven persons have died in the incident. It was a garment factory but firecrackers were being manufactured inside it illegally," Sumitra Pareek, Additional District Magistrate, said. She said that two people trapped in the factory were rescued. They were admitted to Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital in a critical co ...Read More >
Kannur: The explosion that tore apart the right palm of a CPM worker in Pinarayi has taken a fresh turn, with the party now offering an explanation that contradicts the police version of events. Opposition parties, including the Congress, had alleged that Vipin Raj (25) was injured when a bomb he was making exploded in his hand. According to reports, Vipin Raj is also an accused in an earlier case involving an attack on a UDF office. The Pinarayi police, however, insisted the injury happened w ...Read More >
At least seven people have been reported dead after another body was pulled out from the rubble of an explosion that ripped through a firecracker factory in Hyderabad a day earlier, it emerged on Sunday. Rescue officials confirmed to Dawn the recovery of one more body from the rubble, which was pulled out late on Saturday. On Saturday, a statement from the Rescue 1122 spokesperson said that "a powerful explosion was reported in a firecracker factory on the banks of the Laghari Goth river, Lati ...Read More >
Indore administration has banned dangerous carbide toy guns after 31 individuals, mostly children, suffered serious eye injuries during Diwali. The district magistrate prohibited their manufacture, storage, sale, and use, citing public health and environmental concerns. Police also banned social media content featuring these guns, with violations punishable by law. The Indore district administration on Friday banned the dangerous carbide toy guns after their use during Diwali led to at least 31 ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: India trialled cloud seeding over its smog-filled capital for the first time, spraying a chemical from an aeroplane to encourage rain and wash deadly particles out of the air. Cloud seeding is the practice of using aeroplanes to fire salt or other chemicals into clouds to induce rain. New Delhi city authorities, working with the government's Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, launched a test run on Thursday (Oct 23) afternoon using a Cessna light aeroplane over the city's northe ...Read More >
Ghaziabad: A residential building in Indirapuram with 20 flats caught fire on Wednesday night after a skyshot firework exploded in the balcony of a second-floor house and started a blaze that reached the fifth floor within minutes.Crackers were being burst on the street at Friends Avenue - part of extended Diwali celebrations that NCR has been seeing, with Supreme Court's orders restricting cracker-bursting to a two-hour evening window largely ignored, and not enforced either.Six fire tenders to ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Bengal govt on Thursday transferred Cooch Behar police superintendent Dyutiman Bhattacharya to the position of commandant of State Armed Police following allegations that the SP lathicharged women and children who were bursting crackers outside his bungalow.The incident on Diwali night led to strong protests by locals, who blocked roads on Tuesday and Wednesday demanding Bhattacharya's transfer. He will be replaced by Sandeep Karra, who was the DCP DC, West Zone, Asansol Durgapur Po ...Read More >
Pune: The festival of lights turned tense for fire officials as around 26 fire incidents were reported across the city on Tuesday. Most of the incidents were caused by firecrackers and negligence during celebrations, fire officials said. This data was collected between 5pm and 11pm. According to the Pune Fire Brigade, the incidents were reported from various parts of the city, including Hadapsar, Warje, Narhe Gaon, Kalepadal, Budhwar Peth, Kasba Peth, Vimannagar, Manjri Khurd, Bhavani Peth, Vad ...Read More >
Pune: Over 100 fire incidents, primarily caused by firecrackers, were reported across Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad during the Diwali festival. Fortunately, there were no reports of fatalities.The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits recorded 68 fire incidents from Oct 19 to 23. In the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) areas, 62 fire incidents caused by crackers were documented from Oct 17 to 23.Chief fire officers from both corporations confirmed that the majority of these fires were ...Read More >
Content creator Sam Pepper was banned from livestreaming platforms Pump.fun and Kick after sending a young teen to the hospital in New Delhi, India, by hitting them in the face with a firework while live. Pepper and his friends had been firing Roman candle-style fireworks at each other during the Diwali festival, with locals joining in on the chaos. Any enjoyment quickly turned sour when the British influencer directly hit a local young teen in the face with a firework. "Oh my god! Oh my god, ...Read More >
Despite unseasonal rainfall, pollution levels refuse to drop with BKC, Malad, Deonar, all in the 'very poor' AQI category The festive fervour in Mumbai on Tuesday was marred by excessive pollution and smoggy air. As the Diwali festivities continued, the city's Air Quality Index (AQI) plunged deeper into the 'very poor' zone, with thick smog settling over key neighbourhoods stretching from Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) to Byculla and Malad. Despite the unseasonal showers across the city in the eve ...Read More >
Panchkula: Panchkula's air quality remained "poor" even three days after Diwali, though there was a slight improvement in AQI.According to the Central Pollution Control Board's data, the average of the past 24 hours of the AQI on Thursday at 4pm was 251. It was 268 on Wednesday, falling in the same "poor" category. An AQI in the range of 201-300 comes under the poor category.Its possible health impact is "breathing discomfort to most people on prolonged exposure." With no forecast of rain for th ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Firecracker-related eye injuries continued on the second day of Deepavali. Between Sunday and Tuesday, the total number of eye injuries treated in the city's eye hospitals touched 96, including 48 children. Most of the cases were minor injuries.On Tuesday, there were four cases, including one child, at Minto Hospital. Two were grievous injuries, while the other two were simple injuries caused by crackers such as bijli roll, atom bomb, flowerpot, Lakshmi bomb, and rockets. In the past ...Read More >
New Delhi: Across the country, a dangerous new trend of "carbide guns" is robbing innocent children of their eyesight. Called "desi firecracker guns" or "jugaadi bombs," they are proving to be a dangerous toy for children. In several states, including Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, this illegal and dangerous invention has caused serious eye injuries to children. There has been a sudden and alarming increase in cases of serious eye injuries due to the use of carbide guns. According to ...Read More >
Bhopal: In Madhya Pradesh, 14 children have lost their eyesight while playing with a carbide gun on the occasion of Diwali. In addition, more than 122 children were admitted to the hospitals for having serious injuries in their eyes due to the harmful firecracker guns. Every year, children and families anticipate the festival of Diwali. However, it's essential to ensure precautionary measures that can otherwise prove fatal. Even though the government had issued a ban on the carbide guns in Vidi ...Read More >
Gurgaon: City hospitals reported 16 burn injury cases on Diwali night, with most patients sustaining minor burns. Four were referred to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi for specialised treatment. The Sector 10 Civil Hospital treated 12 burn patients, including eight adults and four children.The pollution spike also led to a surge in respiratory and eye-related cases, with around 170 treated for breathing difficulties and 150 for eye irritation, coughing.Doctors said the toxic air worsened overnight, ...Read More >
Among the injured, 315 were brought to hospitals in Chandigarh, with the highest number of cases attributed to burn injuries (193) and eye injuries (53) This year, Diwali celebrations across the tricity have seen a significant rise in injuries, with a total of 375 people suffering from burns and eye injuries, more than double the number of cases reported last year. The sharp rise in injuries has raised serious concerns about the safety of firecrackers during the festive season. Among the injur ...Read More >
No major accidents including loss of life or major injuries were reported. (Representational image) New Delhi: The Delhi Fire Services received 269 emergency calls on Diwali night, an official said on Tuesday. However, no major accidents including loss of life or major injuries were reported, he said. A senior DFS officer said the department remained on high alert throughout the festival, with all fire stations and quick response teams deployed across the city. "We received 269 fire calls t ...Read More >
Nagpur: Diwali night was hectic for Nagpur's fire and emergency services department as firecrackers triggered a series of blaze calls across the city, keeping all fire stations on continuous duty. Out of 16 fire-related calls received in less than 10 hours, 11 were reported within a five-hour window on October 21 -- between 7pm and midnight -- stretching the city's firefighting network to its limits.The first call came around 7.05pm, marking the start of a long night for fire personnel. The blaz ...Read More >
Noida: Noise pollution spiked this Diwali, with levels well exceeding permissible limits both in the city and in Ghaziabad. Residential areas were the worst hit, with a monitoring station in Ghaziabad's Vasundhara recording 79 dB(A), around 50% higher than the highest permissible limit of 55 dB(A).Silence zones, too, saw noise levels surge.In Noida, the silence zone near Fortis Hospital recorded 64.8 dB(A) in the period between 6pm and midnight on Oct 20. Being a busy area, it is anyway noisy. O ...Read More >
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 23 (ANI): A sudden fire broke out in a residential building in Ghaziabad's Friends Avenue, Shakti Khand 2, Indirapuram, sending panic waves through the community on Tuesday. The blaze, which started in a temporary structure on the balcony of a flat, was quickly brought under control by fire tenders. Firefighters from Vaishali Fire Station arrived promptly and extinguished the fire within 45 minutes. Also Read | Darjeeling Road Accident: 4 Killed, 16 I ...Read More >
The results have also cast serious doubt on the effectiveness of 'green firecrackers', which were introduced to reduce pollution. Despite a sharp 77.5% drop in stubble burning this year, Delhi's air quality plummeted to its worst post-Diwali level in five years on Tuesday morning. The city woke up on Tuesday to a thick blanket of smog, with PM2.5 levels averaging 488 micrograms per cubic metre, nearly 100 times higher than the World Health Organization's safe limit. On Diwali night, readings t ...Read More >
Around 20 million people in India's capital woke up on Wednesday breathing the most polluted air of any major city in the world, a day after celebrations for the Diwali festival, during which revelers typically set off fireworks and firecrackers. As of Wednesday, New Delhi's PM 2.5 concentration - a measure of pollutants in the air - was more than 40 times the World Health Organization's annualized guideline level, according to Swiss air quality monitoring company IQAir. New Delhi grapples wit ...Read More >
Residents across city neighbourhoods burst crackers past 10 pm, pushing AQI to 371 as police checks failed and citizens complained of suffocating air. The booms, crackles and whistles of firecrackers rang in Gurugram and its skyline was illuminated on Monday night as the Supreme Court's restrictions were violated across the city. On Diwali night, residents said, it felt like there were no rules. By 2am, thick smog blanketed the city with the AQI plunging into the 'severe' category. Seemingly i ...Read More >
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