VIRUDHUNAGAR: When Dr T Yokul (29) from Karaikudi lit a gadha-shaped novelty cracker that sprayed showers of sparks, he never thought it would backfire. Within seconds, his Deepavali celebration went ...

VIRUDHUNAGAR: A temporary facility for a raw materials/chemicals, composition, emissions (RACE) testing facility has been set up in Sivakasi in Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu to test green ...

A temporary facility for Research and Development for Firecrackers Compositions and Emission (RACE) has been set up at AAA College here for emission and noise testing of fireworks products ...

A temporary facility for raw materials/chemicals, composition, emissions (RACE) to test green crackers has been established at Sivakasi in Virudhunagar district. The facility would be helpful for ...

VIRUDHUNAGAR: It’s that time of the year when lakhs across Tamil Nadu are gearing up to burst crackers as it has always been the central attraction of Deepavali celebrations. The first picture that ...

Sivakasi, which manufactures about 90% of the fire crackers sold in the country, shifted to green crackers, a fairly new concept, to reduce noise and air pollution after the Supreme Court in 2018 ...

Chennai: Urging the people to celebrate a noiseless and smoke-free Deepavali on October 20, the State government has fixed the timing for lighting fire crackers between 6 am and 7 am and between 7 pm ...

As most Indian cities, including Delhi, woke up to a haze of smoke and “very poor” air quality after Deepavali celebrations, a few villages in Tamil Nadu have quietly shown that festivals can be ...

The death toll in the explosion at a cracker manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu's Ariyalur district has increased to 11, officials said on Tuesday. Twelve people injured in the accident are still ...

Two people died and four were injured in a blast at a cracker factory in Tamil Nadu's Vadakarai on Wednesday morning. The incident happened around 9 am in a room that was used for wrapping crackers ...