For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
Unlike regular crackers, green crackers don't contain barium and have suppressors like dust & zeolite that reduce particulate emissions. They can be identified by CSIR NEERI logo.
Adolphe Pénaud’s Planophore aircraft, Nikolai Tesla’s wireless radio, or the modern drone—the lines between toy, scientific breakthrough and killing machine aren’t always clear.
No job cuts, but Tamil Nadu’s firecracker factories reduce production and slash wages of workers; allied industries like packaging and transport also hit.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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