Amid an ongoing faceoff between the AAP government in Delhi and IAS officers, the AAP said on Friday that Delhi Environment Secretary and its Pollution Control Committee Member Secretary skipped a meeting called by Environment Minster Imran Hussain.

The brother of a BJP councillor died in a hospital here on Friday after being shot by his neighbour as a dispute over a water connection turned violent, police said.

A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man in a forest in Odisha's Angul district, police said on Friday. The accused has been was arrested.

A 93-year-old man, who was given life sentence in a 40-year-old murder case by the Allahabad High Court, on Friday approached the Supreme Court challenging the sentencing order.

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and urged him to provide Rs 20,000 crore for the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project being built across the Godavari river.

 Persistently suffering "severe" air quality for third day in row, the National Capital Region's (NCR) dusty situation is likely to improve from Saturday onwards, Met official said on Friday.

Within hours of releasing his picture for public help, police here on Friday arrested the fourth suspect in senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari's murder.

Four men were arrested for stripping an "emotionally immature man", making his video and allegedly circulating it in social media in Nadia district of West Bengal, police said on Friday.