Each Diwali brings new trends in firecrackers, from sparklers to rockets, but this year’s dangerous novelty is the ‘carbide gun’ or ‘desi firecracker gun’. Marketed as toys, these homemade devices are ...

BHOPAL: Authorities in various parts of Madhya Pradesh have initiated a crackdown against carbide guns. Collectors in at least four major districts – Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior and Sagar districts – ...

At least 14 children in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have lost their eyesight after playing with a homemade Diwali toy – homemade carbide guns that experts have compared to a “chemical ...

Aarish, 15, sits on a hospital bed in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. A pair of dark glasses hides a painful injury in his left eye. His cornea was damaged a week ago when an improvised ...