It’s not just the pandemic that has shrunk every Indian festival to a shadow of its exuberant self. Pollution also has been a factor. Enter the fireworks city of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu......
About 1,070 units in Sivakasi can manufacture fireworks worth Rs 6,000-9,000 crore. Sivakasi - the small town 550 km south of Chennai famous for manufacturing crackers and matches - breathed a......
The firecracker industry in Sivakasi, in interior Tamil Nadu, from where 95 per cent of the Indian output comes from, has said production has declined 20 per cent this year. The industry says this......