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News Dabba for 11 June 2026: 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 CJP's protest in Pune, death of Indians off Oman coast, to Iran war updates.
Hindustan Times: Cockroach Janta Party to protest in Pune today
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Thursday announced the launch of a nationwide protest campaign against alleged irregularities in examinations, as part of which, a protest will take place in Pune today at 4pm, Hindustan Times reports. The CJP also renewed its demand for the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Addressing a press conference in Pune, CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke said the organisation would release its education manifesto later in the day, coinciding with the start of a nationwide agitation from the campus of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU). Read the full report here.
5 Indians rescued after 3rd ship on fire off Oman; 3 dead in last US strike: Indian Express
Indian Express reports that another incident of fire on vessel with Indian crew off the Oman coast has come to the fore. The bitumen carrier, MT Jalveer, had 20 crew members aboard. Five of them were rescued by passing vehicles and taken to Oman. Earlier on Wednesday, three Indians were killed in a US strike on another oil tanker MT Settebello. Before that on Monday, another ship with Indian crew members, MT Marivex, was attacked. While MT Settebello was trying to transport oil from Iran, MT Marivex was attempting to dock at an Iranian port, the report says. Read the full report here.
Thousands of Malawians flee homes in South Africa amid xenophobic threats, Al Jazeera
More than 3,000 Malawians, including hundreds of children, are staying in an open field in South Africa’s port city of Durban, after fleeing what they described as escalating anti-immigrant threats and attacks. Al Jazeera reports that for weeks, groups armed with sticks, whips and shields have marched through parts of the country demanding that foreigners with no papers leave by June 30. At the park, which transformed into a makeshift transit camp in Durban on Wednesday, many people said repatriation was their only safe option. Read the full report here.
Abhishek Banerjee gets interim relief in signature forgery case, NDTV reports
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday gave Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee interim protection from arrest for three weeks in connection to the signature forgery case, NDTV reports. Justice Kaushik Chandra told Abhishek Banerjee - the party's second-in-command, behind aunt and ex-chief minister Mamata Banerjee - to cooperate with the investigation, and to appear before the police at its city office for questioning at 6 pm Thursday, after he returns from Delhi. Till then no coercive action can be taken against the Lok Sabha MP, the court ruled, as per the report. Read the full report here.
US and Iran exchange strikes across Middle East for second day in a row, BBC reports
The US and Iran have exchanged strikes across the Middle East for a second consecutive day, BBC reports, further straining a shaky ceasefire agreed between the two countries in April. US Central Command (Centcom) said it had completed a wave of "self-defense strikes" targeting military, surveillance and radar sites in southern Iran, hours after President Donald Trump vowed US forces would hit Iran "hard". The report says that Tehran responded to the attack with a round of strikes targeting US military assets across the region in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan. Read the full report here.
