At least 14 people were killed in a massive blast that tore through three buildings in Bihar’s Bhagalpur city, around 250km east from Patna on Thursday night. The death toll may increase as mor...

Three persons, including two women, were killed on Wednesday morning when a firecracker factory caught fire in the Mohanpur-Sonaria area of South 24-Parganas’ Nodakhali. The incident near Budge ...

Children of Eastern High have been celebrating Diwali without crackers for — not one but — three years now. They have been spreading the glow by collectively lighting diyas instead. This ...

Mizoram banned firecrackers, sky lanterns and other pyrotechnic materials during the festive season, an official said on Saturday. The state government also banned the sale and possession of toy guns...

Air quality in several parts of the city stayed between poor and severe for long hours from late Thursday to Friday morning. The cloudy sky along with very low wind speed, which is characteristic of ...

The air quality at several monitoring stations in Kolkata and Howrah had dropped to poor or very poor between late Wednesday and early Thursday, around the time firecrackers were burst by Chhath worsh...

Many Kolkatans woke up to the sound of blaring loudspeakers on Thursday morning and as many complained of incessant bursting of firecrackers in their neighbourhoods on Wednesday night and the next mor...

Complaints of bursting of banned firecrackers and use of loudspeakers were reported from several parts of the city on Wednesday. The city police headquarters at Lalbazar had received at least 10 such...

Sixteen people were arrested from housing complexes in Lake Town, Bangur and Rajarhat on the northeastern fringes of Kolkata for bursting banned firecrackers on rooftops on Diwali, police said on Frid...

And despite the rhetoric against Chinese goods, their products remain popular. “Chinese products are alive and kicking. The market would be dead without them,” he said. The highest seller ...