Tag: Green Crackers

Use green crackers to check pollution: CM appeals people
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Use green crackers to check pollution: CM appeals people

November 13, 2023

Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has appealed the people of the State to use only green crackers to avoid fire accidents and check pollution that can complicate the health of patients with respiratory and cardio-related ailments. Greeting people on the occasion of Deepavali yesterday, he said the festival symbolises the journey from darkness of ignorance to…

Barring green crackers, other crackers banned for Deepavali: MCC
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Barring green crackers, other crackers banned for Deepavali: MCC

November 5, 2023

Mysuru: Following  Supreme Court order, Health Officer of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has issued a set of norms to be followed by the people and cracker vendors alike in view of Deepavali festival from Nov. 11 to 15 in the city. The MCC press release stated that the public are responsible towards abiding by Apex…

Sale of green crackers permitted for ten days from tomorrow
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Sale of green crackers permitted for ten days from tomorrow

October 31, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: With Deepavali festival to be held from Nov. 3 to 5, the MCC has granted permission for setting up of only green cracker stalls in city for 10 days  from Nov. 1 to 10. MCC Commissioner G. Lakshmikantha Reddy said that following a Supreme Court direction on bursting of crackers during Deepavali, the State…

Cracker stall owners wrap up business
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Cracker stall owners wrap up business

November 17, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: After conducting moderate business for three days, cracker stall owners, who had opened their outlets at J.K. Grounds in city, began to wrap up their business this morning as the three-day permission to conduct sales concluded on Nov. 16 midnight. Cracker traders, this morning, were seen packing the remaining stocks and shifting the same…

Cracker traders Red over Green Order
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Cracker traders Red over Green Order

November 15, 2020

Illegal non-Green cracker stalls shut Mysore/Mysuru: It may be a festival of lights for some but it is definitely a dark Deepavali for a majority of traders who could not sell a single cracker following the order from Karnataka High Court to sell only green crackers. Over two dozen cracker stalls across the city had…

Non-Green Pataki shops shut
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Non-Green Pataki shops shut

November 14, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Several cracker traders shut their stalls at various locations in city this morning after Police and Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) officials strictly insisted on selling only green crackers and refused to allow the sale of conventional crackers. A trader fell at the feet of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Dr….

All crackers are green… light it without tension
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All crackers are green… light it without tension

November 12, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Over 90 per cent of crackers manufactured at Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu (TN)  are green crackers and people can light firecrackers without worry of causing air pollution, said office-bearers of Hebbal Industrial Area Crackers Traders Association. Addressing a joint press conference here his morning, V. Ravi, Anand, Harish and Manikanth said that in 2018,…

Green Crackers: …I am not aware of it
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Green Crackers: …I am not aware of it

November 12, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: “I do not know what green cracker means. I will ask somebody and get back to you”. This is how Health and Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar reacted to a question on the use of green crackers during the coming Deepavali festival.  Talking to reporters here yesterday, he said Technical Committee on COVID-19…

Green Crackers? Officials in a quandary
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Green Crackers? Officials in a quandary

November 7, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Hours after Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa issued a revised order asking people to burst green crackers, officials in district-level are googling the word ‘Green Crackers’ to know about its nature and ways to differentiate between conventional and green crackers. “Frankly, we don’t know how to distinguish among two varieties of crackers. We may have…

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