The Ludhiana administration has issued an advisory permitting the use of firecrackers during Diwali, Guruparva, and Christmas. Firecrackers...

The capital's AQI stood at 310 at 11 pm on Monday. It increased to 326 by 6 am on Tuesday, remained stable till 9 am and started decreasing...

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Sunday said his government's priority is to save human lives and that it is not interested in polit...

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to accord urgent hearing on a plea relating to ban on firecrackers, saying Diwali is round the corner a...

In a blatant disregard to the state government's ban, the people in Delhi were openly seen bursting crackers, thereby contributing to the a...

The advocate however urged the bench to hear it either on Friday itself or Saturday on the grounds that otherwise the plea would become inf...

"Seeing the severe pollution levels in the national capital for the last three years during Diwali, a complete ban is being imposed on stor...

Chouhan's statement came in the backdrop of some states moving to ban or strictly regulate use of firecrackers this Diwali in view of the C...

The civic body has, however, permitted use of 'mild firecrackers' on Laxmi Pujan (November 14), saying Mumbaikars can use 'anar' (cracker k...

CAIT in a statement demanded that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and chief ministers of other states should "compensate the firecrack...

While states like Rajasthan, Odisha, Delhi and Sikkim have imposed a blanket ban on firecrackers, few states have prohibited the use of imp...

A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said firecrackers already produced can be sold in this festival season only in other parts ...

In its October 23 order, the court had ordered that bursting of firecrackers on Diwali and other festivals would be only from 8 PM to 10 PM.

A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan which had reserved its verdict earlier on August 28, said that bursting of crackers on Diwa...

A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan which had reserved its verdict on August 28 is to pronounce the judgement.

India, which has the world's 14 most polluted cities, has made little effort this year to curb the sale of ear-splitting, firecrackers that...

The top court, through its November 11 order last year, had suspended all licences which "permit sale of fireworks, wholesale and retail wi...