Up Cracker Blast

Three people were killed and half-a-dozen injured in a blast at a cracker manufacturing unit in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday evening, the police said. The accident took place at the Dhaarupur village.

An Iranian teenager, who was making fireworks at home for a festival ahead of the Persian New Year blew up his home, killing himself and six other family members, a prosecutor said on Saturday. The house in the northwestern city of Ardebil was flattened by the force of the blast, the city's prosecutor general, Naser Atabati, told the judiciary's Mi...

Five people, including three women and two children, were killed on Monday when stockpiled firecrackers exploded at two places in Uttar Pradesh, police said. Two women and two children were killed in Sandi area of Hardoi district, about 150 km from Lucknow, when a stockpile of crackers exploded on the first floor of a double-storey building due to ...

Three people were killed and half-a-dozen injured in a blast at a cracker manufacturing unit in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday evening, the police said. The accident took place at the Dhaarupur village.

An Iranian teenager, who was making fireworks at home for a festival ahead of the Persian New Year blew up his home, killing himself and six other family members, a prosecutor said on Saturday. The house in the northwestern city of Ardebil was flattened by the force of the blast, the city's prosecutor general, Naser Atabati, told the judiciary's Mi...

Five people, including three women and two children, were killed on Monday when stockpiled firecrackers exploded at two places in Uttar Pradesh, police said. Two women and two children were killed in Sandi area of Hardoi district, about 150 km from Lucknow, when a stockpile of crackers exploded on the first floor of a double-storey building due to ...