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News Dabba for 07 November 2025: Five stories for a balanced news diet
Here are the daily updates that the internet is talking about through various news websites.
Indie Journal brings you the daily updates that the internet is talking about through various news websites. Here's a glance through some of the National and International news updates, from Delhi airport ops hit, SC on Delhi's stray dogs, to Typhoon Kalmaegi.
Hindustan Times: Delhi airport ops hit over air traffic control glitch, over 400 flights delayed
Over 400 flights were affected and delayed at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) on Friday morning following a technical snag in the air traffic control (ATC) system, Hindustan Times reports. Officials said the disruption stemmed from a malfunction in the Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS), which feeds crucial flight plan data to the Auto Track System (ATS). Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), the country’s busiest, manages over 1,500 flight movements each day, the report mentions. Read the full report here.
SC says remove stray dogs from public premises, Indian Express
Indian Express reports that the Supreme Court on Friday directed the “forthwith” removal of stray dogs from the premises of educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus stands and depots and railway stations, “to a designated shelter, after due sterilisation and vaccination in accordance with the Animal Birth Control Rules”. A three-judge bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N V Anjaria also said that “the stray dogs so picked up shall not be released back to the same location from which they were picked up”. Read the full report here.
US Senate votes against limiting Trump’s ability to attack Venezuela
Republicans in the United States Senate have voted down legislation that would have required US President Donald Trump to obtain congressional approval for any military attacks on Venezuela, Al Jazeera reports. Two Republicans had crossed the political aisle and joined Democrats to vote in favour of the legislation on Thursday, the report says, but their support was not enough to secure passage, and the bill failed to pass by 51 to 49 votes. The vote comes amid a US military build-up off South America and a series of military strikes targeting vessels in international waters off Venezuela and Colombia that have killed at least 65 people. Read the full report here.
West Bengal Mandates Rabindranath Tagore's state song at school assemblies
The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education on Thursday issued a notification making Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's 'Banglar mati, Banglar jol', the state's official song, mandatory at morning assemblies in government-aided and sponsored schools across the state, NDTV reports. A notification regarding the same has been addressed to heads of the institutions for all recognised upper primary and secondary schools under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. In 2023, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government passed a resolution in the Legislative Assembly to mark Poila Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali calendar, as the statehood day and adopted Tagore's song as the state anthem. Read the full report here.
BBC report: Typhoon barrels towards Cambodia after killing at least 193 in Philippines and Vietnam
Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 188 people in the Philippines and five in Vietnam, according to the latest figures from the two countries. BBC reports that the storm is now headed west to Cambodia and Laos after it barrelled through central Vietnam on Thursday with winds of up to 149km/h. Towns along Vietnam's central coast were littered with debris this morning after taking the full brunt of the storm overnight, the report says. Read the full report here.
