Sivakasi

Prohibition on use of chemical adds to pain of ban on firecrackers; industry appeals to Supreme Court for relief

Key items not being produced is likely to further bring it down, say local industry sources

Each of these mishaps snuffed out innocent lives, often due to negligence on the part of the authorities

NEERI has been researching firecracker emissions after the Supreme Court last year asked the central government on the steps it was taking to reduce particulate matter emissions from firecrackers

The incident occurred when a fire broke out while crackers were being offloaded from a van to a cracker shop