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TopicFireworks ban

Topic: Fireworks ban

How green are green crackers & why they’re still trumped by traditional fireworks despite SC ban

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.

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.

Mujhe Kuchh Karna Hai

Delhi air is at gas-chamber levels despite the well-intended activist-judicial complex’s “we must do something” ban on the sale of crackers, old vehicles, etc.

Happy Diwali, Singapore style!

Singapore’s former premier Lee Kuan Yew had a tough time balancing firecrackers and his First World aspirations in the 1960s, but here’s what he did.

‘Be a real Hindu, back the fireworks ban, because the world is our family’

Instead of calling the Supreme Court ban on the sale of fireworks in NCR ‘anti-Hindu’, let’s revisit the tradition of ‘vasudhaiva kutumbakam’.

On Camera

Social injustice is inevitable under socialist economic systems: BR Shenoy

Income contrasts tend to decline as economic development progresses, under consumer sovereignty, wrote BR Shenoy in 1977.

Telangana’s Rs 3.24 lakh crore budget bets on rural push, welfare and infra ahead of GHMC polls

With eye on rural votebank, Telangana budget raises allocations for farmers, power & welfare schemes, while introducing new initiatives and relying on borrowings to fund growth.

Tracked: How a sailor’s 35-minute workout on deck gave away exact location of French aircraft carrier

A fitness run logged on a Strava‑linked watch by a French sailor has revealed the movement of nuclear‑powered Charles de Gaulle in the Mediterranean

The Vishwaguru delusion, mine vs yours, is ruining our view of the world

One side thinks India is punching way above its weight. The other thinks Modi has undermined India and it punches below its strength. Both are wrong.