We love third world Bharat: Delhi-NCR’s citizens choose the kind of air they want to breathe, and lifestyle they want to liveDelhi and NCR are choking under a toxic haze post-Diwali, with air quality reaching severe levels. Despite Supreme Court regulations on gre...
22 Oct, 2025, 10.54 PM IST
RIL profit up 16% in Q2 on better O2C, retail playReliance Industries has announced strong financial results for the September quarter. The company's profit saw a significant 16% increase c...
18 Oct, 2025, 08.14 AM IST
Diwali 2025 cracker stocks to light up your portfolio: Experts pick Axis Bank, DLF, Paytm, MTAR Tech and moreThis Diwali 2025, market experts Rajesh Palviya (Axis Securities) and Kunal Bothra (Bothra Advisors) reveal their top “cracker stocks” — fr...
16 Oct, 2025, 10.18 AM IST
SC declines urgent hearing on plea to ban firecrackersThe Supreme Court on Friday refused to accord urgent hearing on a plea relating to ban on firecrackers, saying Diwali is round the corner a...
15 Oct, 2022, 12.44 AM IST
West Bengal to allow only green crackers during Kali Puja: MinisterThe environment minister said the court had directed that the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri) and Petroleum a...
13 Oct, 2022, 08.52 PM IST
View: Smog is not a tradition that must be manfully endured, but a severe health hazardEvery year, Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida and other areas in northern India become close to ‘London 1952’. In a ‘Covid season’, as Aiims Director R...
08 Nov, 2021, 12.18 AM IST
View: Diwali dulhania le jayenge, but don't forget the latest trend-fest — HalloweenI'm just thankful we haven't seen politicians add Halloween to the long list of election-friendly festivals ranging from Diwali to Chhat Pu...
06 Nov, 2021, 11.14 PM IST
Haryana bans fire crackers in 14 districts, restricts use in othersIn 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...
31 Oct, 2021, 02.54 PM IST
Celebration cannot be at cost of others' health: SC on firecracker banUnder the guise of celebration, nobody can be permitted to infringe the right to health of others, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Const...
29 Oct, 2021, 08.17 PM IST
Plea mentioned in HC for urgent hearing against Delhi govt's complete ban on sale, use of firecrackersThe advocate however urged the bench to hear it either on Friday itself or Saturday on the grounds that otherwise the plea would become inf...
29 Oct, 2021, 02.54 PM IST
BJP, Congress MP flay firecracker ban, root for workers of industrySeveral states had banned sale and use of firecrackers this year citing the COVID-19 pandemic and environment concerns with the decision co...
15 Nov, 2020, 05.22 PM IST
Diwali: Ban use of all firecrackers, activist tells Maharashtra governmentIn a Facebook post addressed to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray, activist and founder of NGO Awa...
06 Nov, 2020, 05.49 PM IST
Green crackers aren’t smoke-free, Other options may be explored06 Mar, 2019, 09.20 AM IST
Issue guidelines, create awareness on crackers: NGT to statesThe direction came on a PIL by three Delhi residents which claimed that over 6.2 lakh deaths occur each year in the country due to the extr...
20 Nov, 2016, 12.52 PM IST
Central government's 42-point action plan to prevent pollution in limboccording to Namit Arora, who is a consultant with the Dialogue and Development Commission and was involved with implementing the Odd-even s...
07 Nov, 2016, 12.06 AM IST
NGT asks Delhi government to check pollution due to weddingsThe green bench was hearing a plea by Delhi resident Ved Pal who said that wedding processions in Delhi-NCR violate the laws on noise pollu...
27 Mar, 2016, 11.16 AM IST
- UK shopaholics line up £ 7bn for X'mas, virtually
Britons will spend a record £7bn ($13.3bn) on online purchases in the run-up to Christmas, a 40% rise on last year, a survey has predicted.
06 Nov, 2006, 12.23 AM IST