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1 month, 1 week ago

55-year-old Tamil Nadu man arrested 27 years later for Rs 60 theft in 1997 - Tamil Nadu News

A 55-year-old man from Sivakasi was arrested by Madurai district police for a theft that took place 27 years ago. The robbery, which occurred in 1997, involved the theft of Rs 60, a sum that remained unaccounted for until recently. One of these cases was the robbery at Theppakulam Police Station, where the accused, Panneer Selvam, had stolen Rs 60 …

1 month, 1 week ago

Free education for kids of firecracker unit victims: Stalin

Hindustan Times

The Tamil Nadu government will bear the educational expenses of children of workers killed in accidents inside firecracker factories, chief minister MK Stalin announced on Sunday. “I am announcing that the state government will bear the entire educational expenses from primary school to higher education of children of firecracker factory workers who lost their lives in accidents,” Stalin said. Stalin …

Workers District Virudhunagar Stalin Unit Sivakasi Firecracker

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Sivakasi Fireworks Industry Booms, With Record Sales of Rs 6,000 Crore

New Indian Express

Sivakasi fireworks manufacturers are enjoying a surge in sales, with a combined sale of over Rs 6,000 crore this Deepavali season. Cracker sales have gone up gradually through the season, with varieties like aerial shots proving popular. The government should take proactive steps to lift the ongoing ban on garland crackers and use of barium nitrate to further boost sales.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Scores of Cracker Shops Along Madurai-Tirunelveli Highway Offer Discounts on Fireworks

The Hindu

Scores of cracker shops along the Madurai-Tirunelveli highway have set up shop to attract passers-by. The shops offer discounts of up to 90% on various brands of crackers, including popular and unheard-of brands. The prices are almost the same as the shops on the highway, making them a convenient option for those travelling in personal vehicles.

Entertainment Business Law Funny Madurai

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Two workers killed, two others critically injured in blast at fireworks unit near Sivakasi

The Hindu

Two workers were killed and two others suffered grievous injuries in a minor explosion at Supreme Fireworks near Sivakasi in Virudhunagar district, on Tuesday, July 9, 2024. The explosion comes barely two months after 10 workers were killed and 13 others sustained injuries in a blast at a fireworks unit in May. The police said that the workers were pushing …

Two Workers Sivakasi Fireworks Unit

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu: Two killed, two others injured in explosion at fireworks unit, CM Stalin announces ex gratia

India TV News

In a tragic incident, two workers were killed while two others were critically injured in an explosion at a firecracker manufacturing unit at a village in Virudhunagar district on Tuesday, authorities said. Also, Stalin directed the state authorities to ensure special medical care for both workers who sustained severe injuries and were admitted to the Virudhunagar Government Medical College Hospital. …

Tamil Nadu Fireworks Virudhunagar Stalin Cm Stalin Sivakasi

6 months ago

Message in a wicker basket

The Hindu

A group of women giggle shyly at me on Google Meet as Pandiselvi, a former firecracker factory worker, proceeds to describe how her life has changed for the better in Sivakasi. The women are now being trained in multiple hand weaving and crafting techniques, using natural fibres like banana fibre, water hyacinth and river grass, to create about 1,000 different …

India Tamil Nadu Work Working Sivakasi Rope International

6 months, 1 week ago

Sivakasi-based bus agency fined Rs 30,000 for cancelling trip sans notice

New Indian Express

VIRUDHUNAGAR : The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission in Srivilliputhur has slapped a fine of Rs 30,000 on a Sivakasi travel agency and its shareholders for not notifying three of its customer about the cancellation of their bus in advance, and for failing to arrange an alternative bus. On December 31, 2022, petitioners Ravikumar, along with his wife and daughter, …

Chennai Bus Ravikumar Sivakasi

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Sivakasi cracker mishap: Compensation yet to be paid to victims’ kin 2 weeks on

New Indian Express

VIRUDHUNAGAR: M Mahalakshmi was devastated when she heard that her mother was injured after an explosion at a firecracker unit in Sengamalapatti on May 9. Even though it has been more than two weeks since the fateful day, troubles are far from over for the victims and their families, as the government is yet to pay them the compensation. Every …

Mother Mahalakshmi Cracker Mishap

7 months, 1 week ago

Four women across 3 generations of a family die in Sivakasi blast

New Indian Express

Recalling the last moments with Lakshmi, her relative T Akkamal, a cracker unit employee herself, said, “It was only a week ago, when Lakshmi brought her daughter Poomari, who is pregnant and is due in 10 days, to her house after the baby shower. Now, she will never be able to see her grandchild’s face.” An inconsolable Akkamal added that …

Lakshmi Sivakasi Blast

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Blast at a fireworks unit in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

The Hindu

Ten workers, including six women, were killed in an explosion at a fireworks unit in Sivakasi on May 9, and 13 persons sustained injuries, according to police. The workers were manufacturing fireworks at Sudarshan Fireworks unit in Sengamalapatti around 2.15 p.m. when the blast occurred. S. Saravanan of Sivakasi is the licence-holder for the unit, and one Muthukrishnan is suspected …

Sivakasi Fireworks Unit

7 months, 2 weeks ago

10 workers killed in firecracker unit explosion in TN's Sivakasi

New Indian Express

VIRUDHUNAGAR: Ten workers, including six women, were killed and at least 10 others were hospitalised with severe injuries after an explosion at a firecracker unit at Sengamalapatti near Sivakasi on Thursday. One of the workers, who survived the explosion, said around 100 employees were working at the factory at the time of the blast and many fled the spot immediately. …

Explosion Workers Unit Sivakasi

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Five sustain burns in yet another fire accident in Sivakasi

The Hindu

In yet another fire accident, five persons, including a woman, were injured when sparks from welding machine triggered fire on illegally- stocked fireworks goods in a chemical grinding unit near Sivakasi on Monday evening. The injured were identified as the grinding unit owner, Chinna Karuppu, Veeralakshmi and the workers involved in welding works, Mahendran, Sathishkumar and Anburaj. The police said …

Sivakasi Stocked Fireworks

9 months, 1 week ago

Young man succumbs to burn injuries sustained while destroying farm waste near Sivakasi

The Hindu

A young man, M. Saravanankumar, of Erichchanatham near Sivakasi, who sustained burn injuries while attempting to destroy waste from a maize farm with petrol on March 5, 2024, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday, March 12. The police said that the victim had gone to the farm of his relative and was trying to destroy the waste generated after the …

Injuries Burn Injuries Man Succumbs

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu: Back-to-back blow from Michaung, floods dampens Sivakasi's calendar biz

New Indian Express

VIRUDHUNAGAR: Calendar manufacturers in Sivakasi are struggling to dispatch orders that have been on hold ever since the onslaught of cyclone Michaung began earlier this month. Torrential rain and consequent floods that have battered the southern districts of the state have cost the industry Rs 10 crore after clients from inundated areas held back orders. Speaking to TNIE, Tamil Nadu …

Tamil Nadu Orders Calendar Sivakasi Michaung Jeyasankar

1 year, 2 months ago

Sparks of danger | Tamil Nadu’s tragedies-plagued firecracker industry

The Hindu

On October 9, V. Poovarasan, 25, heard a deafening blast. In recent months, the central region of Tamil Nadu witnessed four blasts in licensed country cracker manufacturing units in the Ariyalur, Pudukottai, Mayiladuthurai, and Nagapattinam districts, which killed 19 labourers. The committee inspects the cracker manufacturing units regularly, and if any violations are found, we close the unit,” says Karmegam. …

Tamil Nadu Industry Chennai Blast Tamil Officials District

1 year, 2 months ago

Dreams of better education and life cut short by tragedy

The Hindu

Periyasamy, a resident of Ammapettai village in Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu, was inconsolable on Sunday as he came to collect the charred remains of his 23-year-old son, Aathikesavan, who was killed in the cracker godown fire accident at Attibele across the border near Bengaluru on Saturday. Of the 14 killed in the fire accident, most were in their late …

Work Some Money Sivakasi Firecracker

1 year, 4 months ago

Woman held in TN for cheating businessman of`12.5 lakh

New Indian Express

VIRUDHUNAGAR: A 30-year-old woman from Sivakasi was arrested on Sunday for allegedly cheating a businessman of Rs 12.5 lakh under the pretext of getting him gold in an auction. "Petchiammal claimed to be a gold jewellery appraiser at a cooperative bank in Sivakasi and told Ramesh that she could help him get the gold that is being auctioned at the …

Ramesh Sivakasi Petchiammal

1 year, 9 months ago

Getting 44k votes in Erode East itself is victory for AIADMK, says Rajendra Balaji

New Indian Express

VIRUDHUNAGAR: Getting 44,000 votes itself was a victory for the AIADMK in the Erode East by-election, said former minister KT Rajendra Balaji during a general meeting held near Sivakasi on Monday. He further criticised the DMK government stating that establishing a pen statue that can't be used for writing, and making Chief Minister MK Stalin's son a minister, are their …

Dmk Aiadmk Rajendra Balaji

2 years, 2 months ago

Why Tamil Nadu government is making noise about Delhi's cracker ban – Firstpost

Firstpost

There is a complete ban on the use, production and sale of all types of fireworks in the national capital until 1 January. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has said that the ban would affect the livelihood of many people who work in firecracker factories Fearing that Diwali won’t be as happy for workers in the firecracker industry, Tamil …

Tamil Nadu Delhi Industry Pollution Sale Diwali Firecrackers

2 years, 4 months ago

Two more Tamil Nadu students die by suicide, five in fortnight

Hindustan Times

Five cases of death by suicide involving students have been reported in Tamil Nadu in the past two weeks, including two in the past 24 hours, police said on Wednesday. Students of Government Arts College, Nandanam raise slogans during a protest over the recent death of Class 12th student Srimathi in the Kallakurichi district of Tamil Nadu, in Chennai on …

Tamil Nadu Parents Students School Suicide Student Tamil

2 years, 9 months ago

India’s fireworks capital losing its sparkle

The Hindu

Early in the 20th century, young cousins A. Shanmuga Nadar and P. Ayya Nadar set off to Calcutta from their home town Sivakasi, an arid region in the present-day Virudhunagar district, to learn the know-how of the match work industry. “Rain-fed farming happens between November and February and then the entire workforce used to be rendered jobless in those days,” …

India Industry Workers Fireworks Units Deepavali Centre

3 years, 1 month ago

While the Indian firecracker industry endures massive loss, China suffers bigger losses in other Diwali products: Details

Op India

Even as the Indian firecrackers industry is staring at potentially cataclysmic losses after the Supreme Court of the country upheld the ban on firecrackers earlier this week, the Chinese firecrackers industry is all set to endure starker losses ahead of Diwali and other festivals. The Confederation of All India Traders has informed that Chinese exporters may suffer losses to the …

China Loss Industry Products Indian Diwali Firecrackers

3 years, 1 month ago

Amid ban on crackers, Sivakasi's fireworks industries stare at another gloomy Diwali

India Today

The city of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar district is known as a hub of firecracker manufacturers in India and has over 6.5 lakh families, directly and indirectly, dependent on this industry for their livelihood. Cracker manufacturers said the demand for a ban on fireworks is a "political stunt" and a "fashion statement". The fear of the third wave and …

India Tamil Nadu Delhi Manufacturing Work Fireworks General Secretary

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55-year-old Tamil Nadu man arrested 27 years later for Rs 60 theft in 1997 - Tamil Nadu News

Free education for kids of firecracker unit victims: Stalin

Sivakasi Fireworks Industry Booms, With Record Sales of Rs 6,000 Crore

Scores of Cracker Shops Along Madurai-Tirunelveli Highway Offer Discounts on Fireworks

Two workers killed, two others critically injured in blast at fireworks unit near Sivakasi

Tamil Nadu: Two killed, two others injured in explosion at fireworks unit, CM Stalin announces ex gratia

Message in a wicker basket

Sivakasi-based bus agency fined Rs 30,000 for cancelling trip sans notice

Sivakasi cracker mishap: Compensation yet to be paid to victims’ kin 2 weeks on

Four women across 3 generations of a family die in Sivakasi blast

Blast at a fireworks unit in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

10 workers killed in firecracker unit explosion in TN's Sivakasi

Five sustain burns in yet another fire accident in Sivakasi

Young man succumbs to burn injuries sustained while destroying farm waste near Sivakasi

Tamil Nadu: Back-to-back blow from Michaung, floods dampens Sivakasi's calendar biz

Sparks of danger | Tamil Nadu’s tragedies-plagued firecracker industry

Dreams of better education and life cut short by tragedy

Woman held in TN for cheating businessman of`12.5 lakh

Getting 44k votes in Erode East itself is victory for AIADMK, says Rajendra Balaji

Why Tamil Nadu government is making noise about Delhi's cracker ban – Firstpost

Two more Tamil Nadu students die by suicide, five in fortnight

India’s fireworks capital losing its sparkle

While the Indian firecracker industry endures massive loss, China suffers bigger losses in other Diwali products: Details

Amid ban on crackers, Sivakasi's fireworks industries stare at another gloomy Diwali