Top 10 world news: PM-designate Modi meets President Murmu; 4 Indian students drown in Russia, and more

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi met Indian President Droupadi Murmu and staked claim to form government at the centre on Friday (June 7). Following that, Modi told the media that the president had called him and asked to work as the PM delegate. In other news, Four Indian students studying in Russia drowned in the Volkhov River, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) confirmed on Friday, adding that a fifth student was safely rescued and was receiving medical assistance.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)leader Narendra Modimet Indian President Droupadi Murmu and staked claim to form government at the centre on Friday (June 7). Following that, Modi told the media that the president had called him and asked to work as the PM delegate.

Four Indian students studying in Russia drowned in the Volkhov River, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) confirmed on Friday (Jun 7), adding that a fifth student was safely rescued and was receiving medical assistance.

The Western media, who had declared the Indian democracy dead barely days ago, is suddenly singing praises for it. The Economist termed June 4 results as a 'triumph for Indian democracy'. The Guardian said not Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but democracy is the real winner.

France confirmed on Thursday (June 6) that a French national has been arrested in Moscow but denied Russian claim that he was working for the Frenchgovernment to gather intelligence. The development coincides with French President Emmanuel Macron's remarks during an event to commemorate second World War's 'D-Day' landings in Normandy in which he said that Paris will transfer Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets to Ukraine amid its war with Russia.

In June 1944, over four years after the fall of Paris to Hitler'sforces in the second world war, the US, UK and other alliedforces entered Normandy to oust the Nazi forces.The Normandy landings emerged as one of the most significant eventsin the second world war that concluded with the liberation of French territory and fall of Nazism in Europe.

A state-backed think tank in South Korea set the cat among the pigeons after suggesting that girls be put in primary schools a year earlier than boys to fix the country's poor birthrate. Earlier this week, authors at the Korea Institute of Public Finance published a report claiming creating a one-year gap between boys and girls would make them more desirable to each other by the time they reach the marriageable age.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (Jun 7) met veteran leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi at their residences before staking claim to form the government at the Centre for his third consecutive term.

Several farmer outfits on Friday (Jun 7) came out in support of the CISF woman constable who allegedly slapped Kangana Ranaut stating the allegations by the actor-turned-politician need to be investigated appropriately.

China's Yuntai Waterfall, a major tourist attraction in the country's north-central Henan province, grabbed headlines after a video posted by a hiker on social media showed how a pipe was feeding the famous falls.

Japan is struggling with the issue of a declining birth rate, which hit a record low for the eighth straight year with the health ministry on Wednesday (Jun 5) describing it as "critical".