Iran's foreign minister warned Friday that if Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip don't stop immediately, the violence could spread to other parts of the Middle East.

The government has rejected the 2023 Global Hunger Index in which India ranked 111th, calling it a flawed measure of "hunger" that does not reflect the country's true position.

The CBI has arrested from Pune a 22-year-old man suspected to be the mastermind behind the case of two missing Manipuri students who were believed to have been killed, officials said Friday.

An employee of the Israeli Embassy in Beijing was attacked on Friday and later hospitalized, the country's Foreign Ministry said. China did not immediately acknowledge the assault.

The decision by Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Vinay Kumar Saxena to grant the Delhi Police sanction to prosecute renowned writer Arundhati Roy and former Professor of International Law at Central University of Kashmir, Sheikh Showkat Hussain, has sparked condemnation from the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). The charges stem from speeches made by Arundhati Roy and others at a convention on Kashmir, titled 'Azadi: The Only Way,' organized in New Delhi in October 2010.

The Income Tax officials on Friday continued the raid in the city in relation to tax evasion as they are learned to have confiscated Rs 42 crore from a Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) contractor's daughter whose house they raided on Thursday night.

Senior journalist and writer of the district, PM Mannur, died in a private hospital in Bengaluru early Friday morning after a short bout of illness. He was 77.

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a PIL challenging Darwin's theory of evolution and Einstein's theory of special relativity that expresses the equivalence of mass and energy.