News Dabba for 02 June 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 Ukraine drones strike bombers during major attack, life sentence without remission to Anna University rape convict, to India, Pakistan generals exchanging warnings.

Anna University rape convict handed life sentence without remission by Chennai court, Indian Express

Indian Express reports that Mahila Court in Chennai on Monday sentenced A Gnanasekaran, the sole accused in the 2024 Anna University campus rape case, to life imprisonment without the possibility of remission. The court ordered that he must serve a minimum of 30 years in prison and imposed a fine of Rs 90,000 on him. The report adds that Mahila Court judge M Rajalakshmi handed down the sentence four days after convicting Gnanasekaran on 11 charges, including rape, abduction, wrongful confinement and criminal intimidation under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Information Technology Act and the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act. Read the full report here.

India, Pakistan generals exchange warnings amid tensions at Shangri-La Dialogue: Hindustan Times

Top military officials from India and Pakistan – Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Sahir Shamshad Mirza –  exchanged warnings at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore amid heightened tensions between the two nations. Hindustan Times reports that just as these nations are adjacent geographically, some of their top generals sat in neighbouring conference rooms inside the Shangri-La Singapore, taking part in simultaneous sessions late on Saturday afternoon on topics ranging from defence innovation solutions to regional crisis-management mechanisms. CDS General Anil Chauhan, referring to Operation Sindoor against Pakistan, said, “What India has done, politically, they have drawn a new red line of intolerance against terror.” Read the full report here.

Man attacks Colorado crowd with firebombs, The Straits Times

Eight people were injured on Sunday when a 45-year-old man yelled 'Free Palestine' and threw incendiary devices into a crowd in Boulder, Colorado, The Straits Times reports, where a demonstration to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza was taking place. Four women and four men between 52 and 88 years old were transported to hospitals, Boulder police said. Authorities had earlier put the count of the injured at six and said at least one of them was in a critical condition, the report says. Read the full report here.

NDTV reports, nearly 4,000 active Covid cases in India

India's active COVID-19 cases have climbed to 3,961 as per the Health Ministry's Covid-19 dashboard, NDTV reports. According to official data, 203 new cases were added to the active case count since Sunday. Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Kerala each reported one COVID-19 death since Sunday. With health authorities closely tracking a gradual surge across key states, Kerala leads the active case numbers at 1,435 cases. Maharashtra follows with 506 cases, the second highest in the country, and has reported three COVID-related deaths. Read the full report here.

Ukraine drones strike bombers during major attack in Russia, BBC reports

Ukraine said it completed its biggest long-range attack of the war with Russia on Sunday, after using smuggled drones to launch a series of major strikes on at least 40 Russian warplanes at four military bases, BBC reports. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 117 drones were used in the so-called "Spider's Web" operation by the SBU security service, striking "34 percent of [Russia's] strategic cruise missile carriers". SBU sources told BBC News it took a year-and-a-half to organise the strikes. The report adds that Russia confirmed Ukrainian attacks in five regions, calling them a "terrorist act". Read the full report here.