News Dabba for 04 August 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 Ganga crossing danger mark, suspicious death of 20 peacocks in Karnataka, to migrant boat capsize in Yemen.

After tigress, cubs and monkeys, 20 peacocks die in Karnataka: Hindustan Times

Twenty peacocks – India's national bird – were found dead on farmland near a stream in Karnataka's Hanumanthapura village on Monday. Farmers discovered the carcasses, which included three males and 17 females. Hindustan Times reports that this incident follows a series of unusual wildlife deaths reported in the state, including the recent deaths of 20 monkeys, a tigress, and her four cubs. Forest officials visited the site and carried out an inspection after being alerted. The report adds that the carcasses have been sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory for examination, and the exact cause of death is expected to be revealed in the test report. Read the full report here.

Indian Express: Ganga crosses danger mark in Varanasi

The water level of the Ganga river crossed the danger mark here on Monday morning, submerging ghats and forcing the authorities to shift cremation and other religious rituals to rooftops and raised platforms, Indian Express said. According to the Central Water Commission, the Ganga was flowing at 72.1 metres by Monday morning, above the danger level of 71.262 metres. District authorities have imposed a ban on boat movement in the river as a precautionary measure, the report adds. Read the full report here.

South Korea dismantles border loudspeakers to ease tensions with N Korea, Al Jazeera

South Korean authorities began removing loudspeakers blaring anti-North Korea broadcasts along the country’s border, Al Jazeera reports, as the new government of President Lee Jae-myung seeks to ease tensions with Pyongyang. “Starting today, the military has begun removing the loudspeakers,” Lee Kyung-ho, spokesman of South Korea’s Defence Ministry, told reporters on Monday, the report says. Shortly after he took office in June, Lee’s administration switched off propaganda broadcasts criticising the North Korean regime as it looks to revive stalled dialogue with its neighbour. Read the full report here.

NDTV report on Supreme Court on Banke Bihari temple case

NDTV reports that the Supreme Court on Monday invoked the spirit of Lord Krishna, the 'first mediator', in a dispute between the Shri Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavan and a Uttar Pradesh government ordinance about the proposed redevelopment of a corridor using Rs 500 crore from temple funds. However, first the constitutional validity of the UP government ordinance must be tested by the Allahabad High Court, an annoyed top court said, questioning the "hurry" to pass that order. The report says that the court asked sharp questions of the UP government and expressed disapproval of the "clandestine manner" in which it had secured a Supreme Court nod for the use of temple funds. Read the full report here.

Dozens of migrants die in boat capsize off Yemen, BBC reports

At least 68 migrants have died after a boat with about 157 people on board sank off the coast of Yemen in bad weather, BBC reports. The vessel capsized off Yemen's southern province of Abyan on Sunday, the Yemen chief for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) told the BBC. He said 12 people had been rescued, but dozens were unaccounted for. The report says as per the IOM that most of the victims are believed to be Ethiopian nationals. Yemen is a major pathway for migrants from the Horn of Africa travelling to Gulf states in search of work. Read the full report here.