Delhi's air quality plummeted to the "severe plus" category on Friday morning, a stage at which all emergency measures, including a ban on polluting trucks, commercial four-wheelers, and all types of construction, are mandated to be initiated and enforced in the National Capital Region.

A bomb blast near a police patrol killed at least five people and injured 21 others in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday in the latest attack on security personnel in the country.

Pakistan have been going through a difficult World Cup campaign and their Director of Cricket Mickey Arthur on Friday attributed one part of the rough ride to the heightened security around players, largely confining them to the hotel rooms.

Five persons were injured after a fire broke out and led to a blast at a pharmaceutical company in Maharashtra's Raigad district on Friday, police said.

Minister for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Priyank Kharge has said that he was ready to be the Chief Minister of Karnataka if the Congress High Command ask him to take charge of the state administration.

A 10-year-old boy in Yalodahalli of Channagiri taluk, Samarth, who was grievously injured as hot curry fell on his body, succumbed to his injuries on Thursday night.

A court in Thane district of Maharashtra has allowed the pre-arrest bail of a man from whose possession the forest department had seized parrots.

The Netherlands skipper Scott Edwards won the toss and elected to bat against Afghanistan in their World Cup match here on Friday.