Hundreds of paan shop owners, including Mumbai vendors, gathered at Azad Maidan to protest the alleged misuse of MCOCA and Section 328 against small traders. The Maharashtra Pan Vyapari Mahasangh said the demonstration represented over seven lakh vendors and called for a uniform national policy (Pics/Sayyed Sameer Abedi)

Stocks at the New York Stock Exchange surged on Monday after US President Donald Trump announced that the United States (US) and Iran had reached an agreement aimed at ending the conflict between the two nations. (Pics and Text/AFP)