Despite a blanket ban on fireworks in the national capital owing to runaway pollution and worsening air quality, revellers across the city engaged in bursting firecrackers with abandon on Diwali night.
A massive fire broke out at five godowns, containing slippers, at a building at Mir Chowk police station limits of Old City, Hyderabad, police said on Sunday.
Several residents in Kabul have complained and reported that they are unable to buy coal and firewood because of financial difficulties, especially when winters are approaching, Pajhwok News reported.