As per the court order, SHOs will be held liable if banned firecrackers are sold in their area.

A visit to India's cracker town Sivakasi could tell you how it's been lax in adopting safety-related measures.

CPI(M) today sought a wide-ranging probe into the Sivakasi fire incident, saying a "big mafia" was making huge profits by forcing labourers.

The Virudhunagar Congress MP has demanded a probe into the massive fire in a cracker manufacturing unit in Sivakasi that claimed 39 lives.

Seven persons were arrested today in connection with the massive fire at a cracker manufacturing unit near here that claimed 39 lives.