He said the situation would be brought under control with the sprinkling of water in the city, beginning today.
November 6, 2021He said the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) had issued instructions to the Delhi Police and the SDMs to maintain a 24-hour vigil to prevent pollution caused by firecrackers with a special focus on the situation in the border areas of the city.
November 3, 2021While most of the manufacturing and storage units in Delhi have been shut, the violators bought firecrackers in huge quantities from Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, said police.
November 3, 2021While issuing the Covid guidelines for the month of November, the government said the graded unlocking will be on from 5 AM of November 1, 2021, till 5 AM of December 1, 2021. There will be no weekend curfew.
November 1, 2021The bursting of firecrackers under the prevalent pandemic crisis is not favorable for the cause of larger community health given the significant relationship between air pollution and respiratory infections.
October 1, 2021Pollution levels and virus loads have been rising in these towns as well, and it is incumbent on authorities to address the problem holistically.
November 19, 2020The tribunal has also said that nationwide, the ban will also be applicable to cities and towns where the average ambient air quality in November last year was poor or worse.
November 9, 2020Delhi's pollution skyrocketed after Diwali. The air quality has reached to 'severe' category for the first time this season.
October 28, 2019The Ministry of Earth Sciences' air quality monitoring service, SAFAR, had earlier predicted that the city's overall air quality index (AQI) would enter the 'severe' category between 1 am and 6 am on Monday.
October 28, 2019Event organisers will require prior permission of the Dubai Police and Dubai Municipality before using the firecrackers.
October 26, 2019It is suspected that people are trapped under debris.
February 23, 2019Beijing has decided to reduce the number of stores selling fireworks and firecrackers from around 80 to 30.
January 14, 2019The Supreme Court (coram: AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan, JJ) had allowed the firing of ‘green crackers’ on Diwali within a time-frame ~ between 8 p.m and 10 p.m. For Christmas and New Year celebrations, the timeline was from 11:55 p.m to 12:30 a.m. The court also barred the manufacture, sale and bursting of chain …
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November 17, 2018Last week, amid projections of worsening pollution in Delhi-NCR, the Supreme Court held that only green crackers would be sold in Delhi-NCR this Diwali.
November 7, 2018On October 9 last year, the top court had temporarily banned the sale of firecrackers ahead of Diwali.
October 31, 2018Diwali in Tamil Nadu this year is on the early morning of November 6.
October 29, 2018Outgoing Congress President Sonia Gandhi was on Saturday left annoyed as firecrackers celebrating his son Rahul Gandhi’s elevation as the new party chief forced her to stop her congratulatory speech on numerous occasions. Taking the stage at the All India Congress Committee headquarters here to congratulate her son, Sonia was barely minutes into her speech when hundreds …
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