LIVE: Heavy rains pound Delhi; five deaths, flooding and traffic jams cause chaos

The tragic roof collapse of Delhi’s IGI is the latest in a series of recent infrastructure disasters in the country, raising safety questions as Prime Minister Narendra Modi spends billions of dollars on improving transport across the country. Bloomberg reported.

The women’s wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday asked the National Commission for Women to investigate contract manufacturer Apple after Reuters reported that Apple supplier Foxconn is rejecting married women for iPhone assembly jobs in the country. “It is imperative to conduct a thorough investigation into these claims and ensure that the rights of women workers at Foxconn Hon Hai are protected,” Vanathi Srinivasan, national president of the women’s wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), wrote in a letter to the commission, posted on X.

Five persons succumbed to rain-related incidents in Delhi on Friday, June 28, as monsoon swept across the national capital with fury early in the morning. Rain lashed the city with the highest rainfall in a single day in June in 88 years, bringing Delhi to a standstill with flooded streets, traffic chaos and several commuters stranded on the roads. Severe waterlogging on Delhi roads led to long and painful traffic jams. The deceased included a taxi driver who died after a portion of a canopy at Delhi’s IGI airport collapsed on cars after rain. Flight operations at Terminal-1 of the Delhi airport were suspended following the incident. A political row ensued over the tragedy with BJP and Congress blaming each other for the collapse of the structure.