With nearly 25,000 residents, this town has about 90 per cent of the population who belong to the Shia Muslim community – which is also the dominant community in Iran.

Impressed by a couple’s bond, a jeweller in Maharashtra gave them ‘mangalsutra’ for just Rs 20. The couple, Nivrutti and Shantabai Shinde, were on a pilgrimage to Pandharpur.

Nine countries currently either say they have nuclear weapons or are believed to possess them. The first to have nuclear arms were the five original nuclear weapons states – the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom.