SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) -- At least nine people were killed and 29 injured when a pile of confiscated explosives blew up at a police station in the Indian portion of Kashmir late on Friday, police sources said, days after a car blast in New Delhi killed eight people.

India's capital Delhi is blanketed in toxic smog every autumn, but the pollution is already so bad that it's drawn protests as authorities tell students to stay home.

A car blew up near the historic Red Fort in India's capital New Delhi, killing at least eight people, police said, adding that the cause remained unclear.

The move follows a weekend protest where police detained dozens of people demanding cleaner air, a rare public demonstration against pollution in the Indian capital.

At least eight people were killed in a car explosion on Monday near the historic Red Fort in a densely populated district of the Indian capital Delhi, a city police spokesperson said, though the exact cause of the blast is still being investigated.

Canada's trade minister Sidhu aims to strengthen ties with India, planning a visit from Indian commerce minister Goyal, as both nations seek to boost trade.

With annual campus recruitment season set to begin in a few weeks, the country’s brightest engineers no longer see U.S. jobs as essential for success.

On the weather side, Delhi recorded a maximum temperature of 26.4 degree Celsius, which is 2.1 degree Celsius below normal, and a minimum temperature of 10.2 degree Celsius on Friday.