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News Dabba for 26 March 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 Petrol, diesel prices hiked by Nayara Energy across India, Venezuela’s Maduro set to appear in US court, to campaigners welcoming Meta and YouTube's defeat in landmark social media addiction trial.
SC-appointed panel urges Govt to withdraw Transgender Persons Amendment Bill, Indian Express reports
The Supreme Court-appointed advisory committee on transgender rights wrote to Union Social Justice Minister Virendra Kumar on Wednesday, requesting the withdrawal of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026. Indian Express reports that on the same day, the Lok Sabha passed the contentious legislation. The chairperson of the committee, former Delhi High Court judge Justice Asha Menon, confirmed to The Indian Express that the panel sent such a letter to the Minister. The report says that the committee was constituted by the Supreme Court in October 2025 while hearing a matter involving a transgender woman who was terminated from employment as a teacher by private schools in Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat because of her transgender identity. Read the full report here.
Petrol, diesel prices hiked by Nayara Energy across India, Hindustan Times
Nayara Energy, India's largest private fuel retailer, has increased petrol prices by Rs 5.30 per litre and diesel has gone up by Rs 3 per litre, Hindustan Times reports, amid global disruption to energy supplies in view of the Iran-US war that has been going on for almost a month now. The report says that the virtual shuttering of Strait of Hormuz and US and Iran launching attacks on energy facilities has disrupted the global supplies. Nayara Energy, which operates 6,967 of India's 1,02,075 petrol pumps, has decided to pass on part of the increase in input costs to consumers, the report says as per PTI. Read the full report here.
Venezuela’s Maduro set to appear in US court months after abduction: Al Jazeera
Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is set to return to a New York courtroom as he seeks to have his drug trafficking indictment dismissed. Al Jazeera reports that Thursday marks the first time that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, will be in court since a January arraignment at which he protested his abduction by United States military forces and pleaded not guilty to all charges against him. Maduro, 63, and Flores, 69, remain jailed at a detention centre in Brooklyn. Neither has requested bail. Read the full report here.
Air India's London flight back to Delhi after snag, NDTV reports
NDTV reports that Air India's A350 aircraft enroute to London Heathrow returned to the national capital due to a technical issue on Thursday afternoon after being airborne for nearly seven hours. The same A350-900 aircraft VT-JRF had faced a technical issue on March 15, following which the plane operating the flight from New York to Delhi was diverted to the Irish town of Shannon, the rpeort says a sper its sources. An Air India spokesperson said its flight AI111, operating from Delhi to London on Thursday, made a precautionary return to the national capital following a suspected technical issue. Read the full report here.
Campaigners welcome Meta and YouTube's defeat in landmark social media addiction trial, BBC reports
Parents and campaign groups seeking tighter restrictions on social media have welcomed a Los Angeles jury handing down an unprecedented win for a young woman who sued Meta and YouTube over her childhood addiction to social media, BBC reports. Jurors found that Meta, which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, and Google, owner of YouTube, intentionally built addictive social media platforms that harmed the 20-year old's mental health. The report says that the woman, known as Kaley, was awarded $6m (£4.5m) in damages, a result likely to have implications for hundreds of similar cases now winding their way through US courts. Read the full report here.
