Three workers of a firecrackers factory died while four others were injured after the manufacturing unit caught fire in the Shirale village in Maharashtra's Solapur on Sunday afternoon, the police said.
With the aim to benefit farmers, an ethanol unit will be established at Mysugar factory in Mandya next year, said Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday.
A fire erupted in a plywood factory in the Kheda region of Gujarat, on Thursday. Fire tenders rushed to the spot and managed to douse the fire, said the fire officials involved.
Farmers under the banner of the Sanjha Morcha Zira have been protesting in front of the distillery "Malbros International Private Limited", owned by a Shiromani Akali Dal leader,demanding it be shut down as it was allegedly polluting groundwater
Protesters gathered outside the deputy Commissioners office in the capital on Friday and shouted slogans against the factory authorities demanding that the government should intervene and take urgent action.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai on Friday accused the previous government of making the farmer's life miserable by closing the Mysuru Sugarcane Factory.