A 10-year-old girl, selling roses at traffic signals in central Delhi, was allegedly kidnapped, raped and left unconscious in a forest area by an e-rickshaw driver, police said on Thursday.

Allegations of a “dummy namaz” have cast a fresh shadow over what the administration is calling a rare and hard-won moment of communal calm in Dhar.

Iran has issued a stern warning, stating any attack will be treated as an all-out war, amid the deployment of a US aircraft carrier strike group and other military assets to the Middle East. Tehran’s military is on high alert, prepared for the worst-case scenario as tensions escalate following US-backed Israeli strikes and President Trump’s close watch on Iran.