Kannan, who rushed to the spot, said three women and one man were killed at Thangaraj Pandian fireworks ... Mangalaramasubramanian and Sub-Collector (Sivakasi) C. Dinesh Kumar were supervising ...

“Fireworks is the backbone of Sivakasi without which this town will not survive,” said Ravi Arunachalam, secretary of Sivakasi Chamber of Commerce. All the stakeholders of the ...

“We were shown a couple of videos in school last week about how children are forced to work in the fireworks industry in Sivakasi and I have decided that I don’t want to have anything to do ...

The 5 September fire in a Sivakasi fireworks factory was the worst in ... I ask the factory's technical head Ravi Kumar. "You cannot work fast if you do," he replies. Another worker ...

Fireworks manufacturers in Sivakasi are staring at yet another gloomy ... the two-hour restriction has to be relaxed. S Ravi of Friends of Fireworks said Diwali is just a month away, but ...