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 ...

Calcium carbide guns are again in the news as more than a hundred people, most of them children aged between 8 and 14, were hospitalised in Bhopal and the neighbouring Vidisha district in Madhya ...

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 ...