Delhi woke up to a thick haze on Monday with AQI in severe category which came down during the day but persisted in very poor category of w...

Hence, this called for a balanced view, taking into consideration the negligible incremental pollution potential of crackers used for a few...

In other districts, where air quality is moderate or better, Haryana has restricted the use of fire crackers to 8 pm to 10 PM for Diwali an...

The petitioners have contended that the ban was arbitrary, unreasonable and excessive.

"In view of the above stated facts and after due consideration of the matter in the background of COVID-19 pandemic, it is respectfully app...

CPCB Chairperson S P Singh Parihar asked the police commissioner to ensure the court order on burning green fire crackers for a stipulated ...

The short-term study was conducted by experts entrusted by the CPCB at the time when sale of fire crackers was banned in Delhi-NCR by the t...

After the Supreme Court order, Delhi Police commissioner Amulya Patnaik had directed the deputy commissioners of police of the 13 police di...

"SC bans fireworks on Diwali? A full ban? What's Diwali for children without crackers?," Chetan Bhagat tweeted.

The court also directed the Delhi Police to reduce the number of temporary licences by 50 per cent of those granted last year and cap it at...

The suspension of licences with immediate effects means that sale, purchase and stocking of firecrackers are completely banned in Delhi NCR.

Equating fire crackers with "burning of money", the apex court said one should think that when humans are affected so much with these fire ...

Concerned over the worsening air quality in Delhi-NCR, the Supreme Court on Friday mulled over the prospect of directing the Centre to susp...

The time period from 8 pm to 10 pm is the time when the department receives maximum fire calls as people celebrate the festival by lighting...

The Supreme Court on Friday said it was seriously considering to limit fire cracker bursting on Diwali day between 5pm and 10pm.

As many as 39 persons were killed and 49 injured when fire broke out in a private cracker factory in Sivakasi yesterday.

The presence of fire crackers led to rapid spread of the blaze in the gutted bogie of TN Express, in which over 30 passengers were killed l...