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HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on 17 October 2025

Gram it: Green crackers are allowed in Delhi, as per Supreme Court's recent order. But crackers from outside Delhi-NCR cannot be sold here. So, have you stocked up the crackers yet?
Updated on Oct 17, 2025 11:48 am IST

Complete ban not practical or ideal, says SC, reserves order on green crackers

Only light-emitting firecrackers are permitted during the restricted hours.
Updated on Oct 10, 2025 05:57 pm IST

'If firecrackers are to be banned…': What SC said on Delhi elites and the poor

Top court was hearing a challenge against year-long ban applicable to the sale and manufacture of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR.
Updated on Sept 12, 2025 03:38 pm IST

The moment crackers explode inside Hyderabad shop. Video

A major fire broke out at a firecracker shop in Hyderabad, causing panic among shoppers.
Updated on Oct 28, 2024 10:55 pm IST

Bengaluru gets vigilance team to enforce cracker safety rules for Diwali: Report

Deputy Commissioner mandates inspections and documentation for firecracker sales in Bengaluru.
Published on Oct 22, 2024 09:00 pm IST

Diwali crackers 2023: What are green crackers and how to identify them

Diwali crackers 2023: What are green crackers and how to identify them
Updated on Nov 11, 2023 10:09 am IST

Crackers can be burst between 8 pm to 10 pm in Karnataka this Diwali: Report

The guidelines have been issued to maintain the air quality and sound levels in the state during Diwali. (HT File Photo)
Published on Oct 19, 2022 04:32 pm IST

Haryana bans use and sale of crackers in all 14 NCR districts in state

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Published on Oct 31, 2021 01:47 pm IST

3 held for bursting crackers in Chandigarh

Despite a ban in Chandigarh, people set off firecrackers on Diwali day.
Updated on Nov 16, 2020 11:25 pm IST

HT Chandigarh Readers’ Take: Happy Diwali, go for peace not pollution, care not crackers

Young girls shopping for diyas at the Sector 19 market.
Published on Nov 14, 2020 12:33 am IST

Cracker ‘less’ Diwali? Sellers in Delhi-NCR say sale is not good so far

Cracker sellers in Delhi-NCR feel the awareness on green crackers being available in the market is low.
Updated on Nov 05, 2020 01:59 pm IST

Apply for permit for sale of crackers at Mohali sewa kendras

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Updated on Oct 23, 2020 12:49 am IST

Crackers sound jarring note as Chandigarh tricity lights up on PM Modi’s solemn plea

DEFEATING THE PURPOSE: Residents gathered on a street, giving two hoots to the PM’s appeal for social distancing, during the candlelight vigil against coronavirus in Mohali on Sunday.
Updated on Apr 06, 2020 05:23 am IST

15-yr-old boy loses hand while bursting crackers in Mohali

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Updated on Oct 29, 2019 12:45 am IST

Blast in 50 boxes of crackers at Jalandhar plot in Punjab

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Published on Oct 28, 2019 10:59 pm IST

Three killed as minivan ferrying crackers explodes in Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram

The remains of the van that exploded inTamil nadu’s Villupuram district on Monday
Updated on Sept 30, 2019 06:42 pm IST

Which is worse, crackers or cars? Supreme Court asks Centre for comparative study

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to give a comparative study on pollution caused by firecrackers and automobiles and observed that people are running after firecrackers and seeking ban on it when it seems that automobile is the bigger polluter.
Updated on Mar 12, 2019 01:42 pm IST

No crackers this wedding season in Noida

Published on Jan 06, 2019 02:28 pm IST

Finer, deadlier PM1 shoots up in Delhi due to crop burning, crackers

Even as Delhi’s annual winter pollution crisis has made residents aware of the harmful PM10 and the dangerous PM2.5 particulate matter, the tiniest and deadliest of these pollutants, PM1, shot up at least 12 times this November than what it is on the cleanest monsoon days, according to scientists monitoring air quality in the national capital.
Updated on Nov 15, 2018 11:59 pm IST

Bursting crackers? Cops are watching you

PMC staff and police confiscate wares of 15 illegal firecracker shops in the Hadapsar area
Updated on Nov 06, 2018 05:38 pm IST

‘Thought it was crackers… terrorist Ajmal Kasab was firing ’: 26/11 Mumbai attack victim

Ajmal Kasab entered Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station and started firing indiscriminately during the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai.
Updated on Nov 04, 2018 01:10 pm IST

Ban on crackers too little too late, say Gurugram residents

Residents who believe burning firecrackers on Diwali should be a no holds barred activity, come what may
Updated on Nov 01, 2018 11:50 am IST

Firecrackers already produced can be sold elsewhere except Delhi-NCR: Supreme Court

Children enjoy as they burst crackers on the occasion of Diwale in Mayur Vihar on October 19, 2017.
Updated on Oct 31, 2018 02:48 pm IST

Supreme Court allows all southern states to burst crackers for 2 hours on Diwali morning

The Supreme Court Tuesday allowed southern states to burst firecrackers in the morning but said the duration should not exceed the two-hour window it had fixed in its October 23 judgment, which banned manufacture of high-emission firecrackers and permitted sale of only green ones.
Updated on Oct 30, 2018 11:12 pm IST

No sale of crackers in Patiala this Diwali

Updated on Oct 26, 2018 11:26 am IST

No blanket ban, but SC puts checks on firecrackers this Diwali

The Supreme Court had temporarily banned the sale of firecrackers ahead of Diwali on October 9 last year. It had later refused to relax its order while dismissing a plea by traders.
Updated on Oct 23, 2018 03:01 pm IST

Madras HC bans online sale of crackers till a week after Diwali

A fire crackers market in India (File Photo)
Updated on Oct 16, 2018 11:59 pm IST

Bhati killing: We thought someone was bursting crackers, say locals

Balraj Bhati , a criminal mastermind with a 2.5 lakh reward on his arrest from the police of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Delhi, was killed in the encounter on Monday.
Published on Apr 23, 2018 09:50 pm IST