News Dabba for 13 April 2026: 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 fatal accident in Maharshtra's Thane, Supreme Court on Bengal SIR, to the defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary.

11 people in a van killed in collision with cement mixer in Maharashtra's Thane, Hindustan Times

A shocking and tragic accident took place on Monday on the Kalyan–Ahilyanagar highway in Maharashtra's Thane district, Hindustan Times reports, leaving the region shaken. A cement mixer and a black-and-yellow Eeco taxi collided head-on, leading to the death of 11 passengers, according to initial reports. The impact of the crash was so severe that the Eeco car was completely crushed, making it difficult to even identify its structure, the report says. Read the full report here.

Indian Express on Supreme Court's instruction to EC over voter deletions in Bengal

Underlining the need to ensure that the “due process” is followed in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal, Indian Express reports, the Supreme Court said Monday there is a need for a “robust appellate process” for voters who have been kept out of the electoral rolls on the grounds of logical discrepancies. The bench presided by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant was hearing a plea by some petitioners who said their appeals against exclusion from the voters’ list were pending before the Appellate Tribunals and sought to extend the April 9 deadline on which the list was frozen. Read the full report here.

Pistachio prices hit 8-year high on war in major grower Iran: The Straits Times

After upending global supply chains that move critical fuels and fertilisers, the war in Iran has pushed prices of a popular nut grown in the country – pistachios – to an eight-year high. The Straits Times reports that Iran is the world’s second-largest producer of pistachios, which are eaten by themselves and are also a common ingredient in ice cream, chocolate and beverages. The conflict is crunching supplies in an already constrained market at a time when consumer appetite is surging. The report adds that the country’s pistachio trade was already complicated by sanctions and geopolitical frictions prior to the war. Read the full report here.

NDTV on Delhi Court's "Hope You Don't Return" Comment To Arvind Kejriwal

NDTV reports that Delhi's former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was appearing in Delhi High Court for the first time to present his arguments to have a judge recuse, told the court that he was apprehensive that the judge was biased and he was not convinced that he would get a fair hearing. Kejriwal and the others discharged in the liquor policy case have sought that Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma recuse from the hearing of a petition by the Central Bureau of Investigation against the trial court's decision. The court has accepted Kejriwal's application. Read the full report here.

Orbán era swept away by Péter Magyar's Hungary election landslide, BBC reports

Viktor Orbán's 16 years in power is over and a system condemned as an "electoral autocracy" lies in tatters, BBC reports, as he is defeated by a 45-year-old former party insider who convinced a majority of Hungarians to bring it to an end. Preliminary election results, based on more than 98% of counted votes, put his Tisza party on course for an extraordinary 138 seats, with Orbán's Fidesz on 55 and the far-right Our Homeland on six. The report adds that the landslide will not only allow Magyar to overturn Orbán's increasingly unpopular domestic policies, but reset Hungary's global relationships. Read the full report here.