Iran said Friday that in order to reach a deal, the United States will have to drop its “excessive demands”, tempering the optimism expressed after talks seen as a last-ditch bid to avert war.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level meeting with District Magistrates (DMs) and Superintendents of Police (SPs) from seven districts of the Seemanchal region, focusing on tightening security along the Indo-Nepal border.

A 23-year-old woman was raped twice in a day in separate places by her boyfriend and a stranger offering help and then thrown off a four-storey building, leading to her death, in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district, police said on Friday.