According to the Chief Fire Officer (CFO) Rahul Kumar, "The fire incident was reported at 3:30 am today in the South Side Industrial Area of Civil Lines of Ghantaghar Kotwali, Ghaziabad."
According to the order the use of green crackers will be allowed for a limited time only on special occasions like Diwali, Gurupurab, Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Indian shooter Vijayveer Sidhu who was part of the trio that clinched India's first medal in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol felt proud after getting felicitated on Thursday.
The District Administration of Haryana's Gurugram issued an order on the ban of manufacture, sale, and use of all types of firecrackers except green firecrackers from November 1, 2023, to January 31, 2024.
In an update, Uzbekistan's Ministry of Emergencies said that the situation at the site of the warehouse explosion in Tashkent is "under control" as emergency workers continue to make efforts to fully extinguish a fire that was caused due to the explosion.
The toll from the fire, which ripped through a wedding celebration in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, mounted to 113 people while more than 150 were injured, Al Jazeera reported on Wednesday, quoting local officials and emergency services said.
As many as 35 students were rescued from a girls' PG at Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar where a fire broke out earlier on Wednesday evening, a top fire services officer said.