Sivakasi Fireworks

Diwali orders for Sivakasi firecracker units not enough to lift spirits

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

SC ban on barium likely to take the spark off Sivakasi firework units

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

Doubts on Sivakasi cracker unit safety rise as 3 more die in latest mishap

Seven casualties in five days, several more injured; experts cry foul over flouting of rules

Workers, the axis of Sivakasi's fireworks industry, toil to fight odds

As the sun sets, workers of firework units mill around the solitary liquor shop downing their choice beverage and laughing away their travails

Sivakasi, fireworks hub keeps fingers crossed as Delhi bans bangers

Days ago, the Delhi government banned sale, use, storage of firecrackers for the festival of lights over pollution concerns

India's fireworks hub Sivakasi struggles to sustain amid Covid, NGT norms

Business badly hit, Sivakasi, home of fireworks, is losing its spark

The pandemic, muted festivals and pollution concerns may slash sales by half

Five killed and 6 injured in blast at fireworks factory in Tamil Nadu

More than ten sheds where chemicals had been stored were razed to the ground in the mishap, the second such incident this month in a cracker manufacturing unit near Sivakasi

From Anaj Mandi to Vizag gas leak, industrial accidents that shook India

India has seen some horrible accidents in the past killing scores of people

Green woes: Sivakasi fireworks units may take a Rs 800-crore hit

Some opine that green crackers are yet not practical, question govt's move to promote them

Sivakasi fireworks hubs strike for second day; over 8,00,000 jobs to be hit

The traders/dealers were not paying an advance as they feared that the court could ban fireworks across the country