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