As Iran voted in the presidential election on Friday (June 28), Iranians living in India also got the opportunity to exercise their franchise. In India, polling centres were set up in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Pune.
The US presidential debate on Thursday showed former president Donald Trump leading against Biden with 67 per cent of debate watchers in Trump’s favour, a flash poll by CNN showed. Biden’s team pushed back, including Vice President Kamala Harris, who told CNN, “It was a slow start but a strong finish.”
In other news from around the world, India’s capital New Delhi received its heaviest rain for June in 88 years.
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Iranians living in India on Friday took part in their country’s presidential election. In India, the Iranian presidential election was held in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Pune. Iran’s Ambassador to India Iraj Elahi thanked New Delhi for facilitating and holding the election.
A flash poll by CNN following the US presidential debate on Thursday (June 27) showed former president Donald Trump leading against Biden with 67 per cent of debate watchers in Trump’s favour. Only 33 per cent believed that Biden won the debate. “Stunning number from voters who witnessed his performance with their own eyes,” political commentator Alyssa Farah Griffin posted on X in response to the poll.
India’s national capital, Delhi, received its heaviest rain for the month of June in 88 years, with roads being flooded, hours-long traffic jams and the roof of Terminal 1 of the Delhi Airport collapsing and killing one person. The rains came after a gruelling heatwave in which soaring temperatures hovered around 50 degrees Celsius in many areas of the city.
The Supreme Court of the US state of Iowa said on Friday (June 28) that the state’s strict abortion law was legal. According to American media, the Supreme Court told a lower court to dissolve a temporary block on the law and allow Iowa to ban most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.
At least five died and over a dozen were left injured on Friday (Jun 28) after a tank in a glass factory in south Indian state of Telangana exploded, news agency PTI reported quoting police. The police also said that the tank in the factory at Shadnagar exploded around 4.30 pm (IST).
The Delhi International Airport management on Friday (June 28) said that it set up a Technical Committee to probe the cause of the roof collapse at Terminal 1 of the airport that killed one person and injured several others.
North Korea publicly executed a 22-year-old man in 2022 for watching and sharing South Korean films and music, The Guardian reported on Friday (June 28) citing South Korea’s unification ministry. The man, a resident of the South Hwanghae province, was executed for listening to 70 South Korean songs, watching three films, and distributing them, falling foul of a North Korean law that bans “reactionary ideology and culture.”
Aryan Anand, an Indian student in the United States, was arrested and deported after he was found to have falsified documents to obtain a full scholarship, media reported. Anand was a student at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
Kalki 2898 AD is off to a roaring start. The film earned over Rs 1.9 billion worldwide on the first day of its release making it the biggest box office opener of 2024. The film’s stupendous performance on the first day of its release has made industry analysts hopeful as the year has been lacklustre in terms of box office earnings of films so far.
Veteran England all-rounder Ben Stokes has backed Jos Buttler to retain his job as the white-ball captain despite India hammering in the ongoing 2024 T20 World Cup. Stokes decided against playing at the showpiece event in the Americas to prolong his Test career but called Jos ‘still the right man’ to lead England in ODIs and T20Is.
