LIVE updates: 15 killed, 36 injured in fire in Tamil Nadu cracker factory

Latest Information Are living: At least fifteen folks died and additional than thirty ended up hurt on Friday when an explosion ripped as a result of a fireworks factory at Achankulam village in Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu, many studies claimed.

The ‘Sree Maariyamman fireworks’ factory experienced stored firecrackers in a place that caught hearth and led to the explosion, the Indian Specific web-site documented. Law enforcement advised the web-site the explosion happened at all-around one:thirty pm. Key Minister Narendra Modi introduced an ex-gratia of Rs two lakh just about every to the kin of the deceased, composing on Twitter to express his condolences.

Earlier in the day, a Supreme Court-appointed committee currently fulfilled twelve farmer unions and cultivators from 8 states on three farm rules that sparked protests when they ended up enacted in September.
 

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman claimed in Parliament Spending budget 2021-22 in Parliament aimed to earning India self-reliant and supplies solid stimulus for medium to extensive time period sustainable superior development.

In Mumbai, a court granted bail to the previous ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar with a rider that she are not able to go away the region with its permission. Two additional bodies ended up recovered from the flood-strike places of Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, taking the death toll in the calamity to 38.
 

Continue to be tuned for the most recent news of the day.