Trump said preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons was essential for global security and argued that the country would use such weapons immediately if it possessed them.

Since the war has triggered a sell-off of equities (considered riskier), investors are scrambling to park their money in safe-haven assets.

The Maharashtra assembly on Monday night passed the Freedom of Religion Bill 2026, which has stringent provisions to prohibit religious conversions carried out through coercion, fraud, inducement or marriage, by voice vote.