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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicFirecracker ban

Topic: Firecracker ban

It doesn’t matter who rules Delhi — AAP or BJP. Diwali madness is now an annual ritual

There’s a definition of madness that seems well suited to today’s Delhi: doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.

SC allows green crackers in NCR: How it straddled line between ‘festive spirit’ & health concerns

Hearing pleas by manufacturers of firecrackers, court has allowed controlled use of green crackers from 18 to 20 October, keeping in view ‘conflicting interests and environmental concerns’.

Delhi defies ban on firecrackers, tops charts as world’s most polluted city

Delhi’s air quality index (AQI) stood at 348 Friday, said Swiss firm IQAir, taking pollution into the hazardous category.

Our take on Modi’s Diwali Milan, India-New Zealand semi final & Biden-Xi meet – in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

Delhi minister says BJP instigated people to burst crackers on Diwali. ‘AQI rose 100 points overnight’

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai claims firecrackers burnt in Delhi were sourced from UP & Haryana, and that certain individuals permitted transportation of those crackers to city.

Delhi engulfed in smog as SC ban on firecrackers violated

People were seen bursting crackers in the National Capital's Hauz Khas, Shahpur Jat, Greater Kailash and Chittaranjan Park, among other areas. 'No action was taken by local administration'.

As Diwali approaches, SC refuses to allow laris & use of barium in green crackers

Apex court is hearing a petition originally filed by three infants in 2015. Comes a week after it refused to interfere with the complete firecracker ban imposed in Delhi.

Delhi’s air quality index crosses ‘hazardous’ level as residents defy Diwali firecracker ban

The worst air quality was seen in the Jahangirpuri area in north Delhi - with AQI touching 768 - more than 15 times the 'good' level.

This is what happens to those arrested in Delhi-NCR for bursting firecrackers around Diwali

Delhi Police data shows 281 people — 138 for selling and supplying firecrackers and 143 for bursting them — were arrested between 28 September and Diwali on 4 November.

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Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.