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News Dabba for 16 April 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 heavy rains in Chennai, clashes in Nashik, to the top court slamming Telangana over tree felling.
Heavy rain lashes Chennai, Hindustan Times reports
Heavy rain lashed Chennai on Wednesday, bringing much-needed relief from the sweltering heat, Hindustan Times reports. According to a bulletin by India Meteorological Department's Chennai centre for Wednesday, "Light to moderate rain at isolated places with thunderstorm & lightning at one or two places is likely to occur over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal area." The rain in Chennai took place amid sweltering heat in most parts of northern India, the report says. Read the full report here.
Clashes erupt in Nashik during demolition of unauthorised structure around dargah, Indian Express
Clashes broke out between the police and a crowd in Maharashtra’s Nashik on Tuesday night after civic authorities moved in to demolish an illegal structure built around a decades-old dargah in the city’s Kathe Galli area. Indian Express reports that the demolition was carried out by the Nashik Municipal Corporation around structures that had been built around the Satpeer Dargah. As a large number of Corporation staff and the police surrounded the place, clashes broke out after protesters angry over the demolition got into an argument with the government staff. Read the full report here.
Peru's ex-president and first lady sentenced to 15 years jail, BBC reports
Peru's former president Ollanta Humala has been found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 15 years in prison, BBC reports. A court in the capital, Lima, said that Humala had accepted illegal funds from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht to bankroll his election campaigns in 2006 and 2011. His wife, Nadine Heredia, who co-founded the Nationalist Party with Humala, was also found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 15 years, the report says. Heredia was granted asylum by Brazil and will have safe passage to travel there with her son, Peru's foreign ministry said. Read the full report here.
India Today on top court slamming Telangana over tree felling
India Today reports the Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the Telangana government while hearing a suo motu case concerning large-scale tree felling in the Kancha Gachibowli area near Hyderabad. The court, which had taken up the issue on its own following reports of widespread environmental damage, questioned the state’s actions and pressed for immediate restoration measures rather than justifications. They also reminded the advocate that the court had once halted a housing project to protect Sukhna Lake (in Chandigarh), the report says. Read the full report here.
Trump orders tariff probe on all US critical mineral imports, The Straits Times
US President Donald Trump on April 15 ordered a probe into potential new tariffs on all US critical minerals imports, The Straits Times reports, a major escalation in his dispute with global trade partners and an attempt to push back on industry leader China. The order lays bare what manufacturers, industry consultants, academics and others have long warned Washington about: that the US is overly reliant on Beijing and others for processed versions of the minerals that power its entire economy. China is a top global producer of 30 of the 50 minerals considered critical by the US Geological Survey, for example, the report says. Read the full report here.
