News Dabba for 07 October 2025: Five stories for a balanced news diet

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 two years of genocide in Gaza, Kerala HC's concern over Sabarimala gold, to Nobel Prize in Physics.

Punjab bans Coldrif cough syrup after deaths of 14 children in Madhya Pradesh, Hindustan Times

The Punjab Government has imposed an immediate ban on the sale, distribution and use of Coldrif cough syrup, Hindustan Times reports, following reports of severe side effects, resulting in the deaths of 14 children in Madhya Pradesh. Punjab's Food and Drugs Administration (Drugs Wing) issued an official order, declaring that the cough syrup is "not of standard quality" as declared by the Government Analyst, Drugs Testing Laboratory, Food & Drugs Administration, Madhya Pradesh. The Uttar Pradesh government has also banned the Coldrif cough syrup. Read the full report here.

Indian Express on Kerala HC's concern over Sabarimala gold

The Kerala High Court, which has initiated suo motu proceedings into the Sabarimala “missing gold” scandal, has now expressed concerns regarding the “distinct and grave possibility” that the original gold cladding on the Dwarapalaka idols in the temple was sold and the proceeds misappropriated. Indian Express reports that the court noted that Unnikrishnan Potty, who in 2019 sponsored a gold-plating of the already gold-cladded Dwarapalaka idols, had expressed his desire to use a “balance of gold” that he had in his possession after the 2019 gold-plating for the purposes of a wedding. Last month, the High Court initiated suo motu proceedings following a report that the Dwarapalaka idols at the temple were removed and taken to Chennai for a further gold covering. Read the full report here.

BBC report: Macron should call early presidential vote, his first PM says

Emmanuel Macron should name a prime minister to push through a budget and then call early presidential elections to solve France's political crisis, BBC reports his first prime minister has said. Édouard Philippe's comments come after France's third prime minister in a year, Sébastien Lecornu, resigned on Monday after his bid to form a government fell apart. The report adds that Macron has asked him to make a last-ditch plan for stability by the end of Wednesday - but support for the French president appears to be waning even among his allies. Read the full report here.

3 scientists get Nobel Prize in Physics for work in Quantum Mechanics, NDTV reports

Scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit", the award-giving body said on Tuesday. NDTV reports that the Nobel physics prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and includes a prize sum totalling 11 million Swedish crowns that is shared among the winners if there are several, as is often the case. Read the full report here.

Al Jazeera live: Israel’s genocide continues across Gaza two years since start of war

Al Jazeera reports that deadly Israeli attacks have continued across Gaza as the war reaches its two-year mark. Officials from Israel and Hamas, as well as the mediators, are meeting in Egypt to discuss US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war. At least 104 people have been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces since Friday, the day Trump called on Israel to halt its bombing campaign, the report mentions. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 67,160 people and wounded 169,679 since October 2023. Read the full report here.