The farmers, in Sambhal district, Uttar Pradesh, had tried running after the monkeys with brooms, banging drums and pans and using scarecrows.

While the government maintains that there is no shortage of LPG, LNG, and PNG in the country, the panic buying trend and long wait for LPG cylinders persist.

The deaths of Larijani and Soleimani remove key figures overseeing both security and diplomacy, tightening hardliner control and dimming prospects for an early negotiated exit.