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Ensure ban on firecrackers or face contempt, SC to NCR states
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan warned the states that any failure to impose a ban on firecrackers would attract contempt.
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Create machinery for effective implementation of firecracker ban: SC to NC
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The top court remarked that the report submitted by the Union of India states that if green crackers are burst the emission is 30 per cent less than the conventional firecrackers. Unless it is shown that the pollution caused by the "so-called Green crackers" is a bare minimum, there is no qu
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"Scandalous allegations": SC deprecates man who accused MC Mehta of receiv
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The said allegations were made by one Mukesh Singh who appeared as party-in-person and alleged that litigations over environmental issues such as banning firecrackers is nothing but a conspiracy brewed by foreign agencies.
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Rajasthan: Udaipur's Menar village celebrates 'Gunpowder Holi' with firecr
Updated : 12 months ago IST
The village of Menar in Rajasthan's Udaipur district witnessed the unique celebration of 'Gunpowder Holi,' where locals marked the festival with firecrackers, cannons, and firearm displays.
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Kerala: Over 30 injured as firecrackers explode at football ground in Mala
Updated : 1 year ago IST
More than 30 people were injured after firecrackers exploded at a football ground near Areekode in Kerala's Malappuram on Monday, police said.
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Delhi poll: BJP workers celebrate, burst firecrackers as early trends show
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
The BJP is currently leading on 46 seats while the AAP is ahead on 24 seats. The majority mark to form the government in the national capital is 36.
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Tamil Nadu: One dead in an explosion at a firecracker manufacturing factor
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
An explosion occurred at a firecracker manufacturing factory near Sivakasi in Virudhunagar district on Wednesday, claiming the life of one person, according to officials.
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What was the need to burst firecrackers inside the lake?: V Hanumantha Rao
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Following the death of a person in a fire that broke out on a boat at Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad during the 'Bharatha Matha Maha Harati' programme, Congress senior leader V Hanumantha Rao questioned BJP leader and Union Minister G Kishan Reddy about the need to burst firecrackers inside
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Delhi: Over 600 Kg of illegal fireworks seized, one held
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
The Crime Branch has arrested an event manager indulging in the illegal use of fireworks in Delhi NCR and seized 630 kg of illegal fireworks causing air pollution, said police. According to DCP Crime Sanjay Kumar Sain, in view of poor air quality in Delhi and the NCR region, the Delhi Pollut
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Delhi govt tells Supreme Court it has imposed complete ban on firecrackers
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
The Delhi government informed the Supreme Court on Thursday that it has imposed a complete ban on the manufacture, storage, selling, including delivery through online marketing platforms and bursting of all kinds of firecrackers in the national capital throughout the year with immediate effe
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Air pollution: Take final call on blanket ban on firecrackers, says SC to
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih asked the Delhi government and other NCR states - Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan - to place their decisions on record before the apex court.
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J-K: Suspicious box containing firecrackers found in Mendhar, case registe
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Police and other security forces were alerted after the box was found in the Chajja area of Mendhar in Poonch.
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