Bursting Balloons

Gautam Adani's group comprises seven publicly listed entities with businesses spanning energy, ports and logistics, mining and resources, gas, defence and aerospace and airports.

An inquiry will be instituted in the incident in which helium-filled balloons burst causing a minor fire during Congress president Rahul Gandhi's roadshow in Madhya Pradesh, officials said today.

At least 27 persons including 14 children were injured when gas balloons burst inside a CRPF camp in Durgapur in Burdwan West district during a programme, an official of the paramilitary force said.

Celebrations have begun outside 10 Janpath, the residence of Sonia Gandhi in Delhi, with the Congress president turning 71 today. Congress workers could be seen with balloons in party colours and they even burst crackers. PM Modi too, greeted Mrs Gandhi, and wished her good health.

At least fifteen people were injured on Monday during a function at a private training institute in Chandigarh when a bunch of helium balloons released in the air caught fire and came crashing down on them. Many of those injured were students of the institute in sector 34, Chandigarh, the police said.

According to a study done by University of Alberta, popping a balloon can generate the same amount of noise as a high-powered shotgun going off.

If you thought bursting balloons at a birthday party is plain fun, think again! Researchers have found that popping balloons can be louder than shotgun blasts -- and can lead to permanent hearing loss.

A hot air balloon burst into flames over central Texas on Saturday after apparently striking power lines and plunged into a field, killing all 16 people aboard in one of the deadliest such accidents on record, police and eyewitnesses said.

Almost everyone knows popping water balloons in the summertime is an incredibly fun activity. The burst, followed by the loud and watery splash, is oddly satisfying - right? So YouTubers Gav and Dan, also known as The Slow Mo Guys, decided to amp up the fun with a six-foot water balloon.

Rescue personnel on Sunday located the body of the third and final victim from a hot-air balloon that burst into flames upon its descent in the US state of Virginia.

A second body was recovered on Saturday from the crash of a hot air balloon carrying three people that drifted into a power line and burst into flames in front of hundreds of horrified spectators.

The projection by certain quarters that Narendra Modi will become the prime minister is like a gas balloon which will burst when the gas leaks, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said as she stepped-up her attack against the BJP's prime ministerial nominee.

Expressing confidence that UPA will form the government again, Rahul Gandhi today asserted that BJP's campaign "balloon" will burst like 'India Shining' in 2004 as he warned that Narendra Modi's coming to power would be damaging for the country.

The BJP is expected to announce Narendra Modi as the face of its campaign for the national election at a conclave in Goa this weekend. Sharad Pawar, the leader of the Nationalist Congress Party, offered this wry take. "Experience shows that whenever a lot of hot air is created about something, that balloon always bursts!"

In a freak accident, 13 children were injured, two of them critically, on Tuesday when a balloon cylinder burst while they were buying balloons from a local vendor in Howrah in West Bengal.

Gautam Adani's group comprises seven publicly listed entities with businesses spanning energy, ports and logistics, mining and resources, gas, defence and aerospace and airports.

An inquiry will be instituted in the incident in which helium-filled balloons burst causing a minor fire during Congress president Rahul Gandhi's roadshow in Madhya Pradesh, officials said today.

At least 27 persons including 14 children were injured when gas balloons burst inside a CRPF camp in Durgapur in Burdwan West district during a programme, an official of the paramilitary force said.

Celebrations have begun outside 10 Janpath, the residence of Sonia Gandhi in Delhi, with the Congress president turning 71 today. Congress workers could be seen with balloons in party colours and they even burst crackers. PM Modi too, greeted Mrs Gandhi, and wished her good health.

At least fifteen people were injured on Monday during a function at a private training institute in Chandigarh when a bunch of helium balloons released in the air caught fire and came crashing down on them. Many of those injured were students of the institute in sector 34, Chandigarh, the police said.

According to a study done by University of Alberta, popping a balloon can generate the same amount of noise as a high-powered shotgun going off.

If you thought bursting balloons at a birthday party is plain fun, think again! Researchers have found that popping balloons can be louder than shotgun blasts -- and can lead to permanent hearing loss.

A hot air balloon burst into flames over central Texas on Saturday after apparently striking power lines and plunged into a field, killing all 16 people aboard in one of the deadliest such accidents on record, police and eyewitnesses said.

Almost everyone knows popping water balloons in the summertime is an incredibly fun activity. The burst, followed by the loud and watery splash, is oddly satisfying - right? So YouTubers Gav and Dan, also known as The Slow Mo Guys, decided to amp up the fun with a six-foot water balloon.

Rescue personnel on Sunday located the body of the third and final victim from a hot-air balloon that burst into flames upon its descent in the US state of Virginia.

A second body was recovered on Saturday from the crash of a hot air balloon carrying three people that drifted into a power line and burst into flames in front of hundreds of horrified spectators.

The projection by certain quarters that Narendra Modi will become the prime minister is like a gas balloon which will burst when the gas leaks, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said as she stepped-up her attack against the BJP's prime ministerial nominee.

Expressing confidence that UPA will form the government again, Rahul Gandhi today asserted that BJP's campaign "balloon" will burst like 'India Shining' in 2004 as he warned that Narendra Modi's coming to power would be damaging for the country.

The BJP is expected to announce Narendra Modi as the face of its campaign for the national election at a conclave in Goa this weekend. Sharad Pawar, the leader of the Nationalist Congress Party, offered this wry take. "Experience shows that whenever a lot of hot air is created about something, that balloon always bursts!"

In a freak accident, 13 children were injured, two of them critically, on Tuesday when a balloon cylinder burst while they were buying balloons from a local vendor in Howrah in West Bengal.