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News Dabba for 09 December 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 Parliament session, DGCA's notice to IndiGo, to Thailand-Cambodia conflict.
Hindustan Times live on Parliament session
A discussion on 150 years of ‘Vande Mataram' will also take place in the Rajya Sabha after being held in Lok Sabha on Monday, Hindustan Times reports. In Rajya Sabha, union home minister Amit Shah said that ‘some people think discussions on Vande Mataram are happening because of the upcoming elections in Bengal’. Meanwhile, in Lok Sabha, Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav called the Election Commission of India ‘biased’ and agreed with the Congress party's demands for reforms, including the selection of the CEC through a panel that includes the LoP in Rajya Sabha and the CJI. Read the full report here.
DGCA orders airline to cut flight schedule by 5 percent: Indian Express
India’s aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has decided to curtail crisis-hit airline IndiGo’s flight schedule by 5 percent, or around 115 daily flights, especially on high-demand and high-frequency routes, Indian Express reports. The airline has been instructed accordingly and the flights to be cut are being finalised while ensuring that overall air connectivity is not significantly impacted on the routes where the cuts will take place, they said. These slots may be offered to other carriers if they have additional capacity that can be deployed, the report says. Read the full report here.
Thailand-Cambodia fighting spreads along border as death toll rises, BBC reports
Renewed fighting between Thailand and Cambodia over a disputed border continues, as more deaths are reported and thousands are displaced, BBC reports. Cambodia says two more civilians have been killed in overnight shelling by Thai forces, bringing the total deaths on its side to seven. Thailand has reported that at least three soldiers have been killed, the report says. Both sides have blamed each other for the clashes. Read the full report here.
Supreme Court frustrated over multiple SIR pleas, NDTV reports
The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed frustration over multiple petitions being filed from across Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam and Kerala over the issue of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) being carried out by the Election Commission, NDTV reports. Keep filing more and more petitions and keep politicising the issue, Chief Justice Surya Kant said. A bench of Chief Justice and Justice Joymala Bagchi directed for segregation of petitions in the SIR matters state-wise, so the Supreme Court can hear each state issue separately. Read the full report here.
Al Jazeera: Israel launches new wave of air attacks on Lebanon, straining fragile truce
Israel’s military has carried out waves of air attacks in southern Lebanon, causing damage to several homes, according to Lebanese state media, as anger mounts over repeated Israeli violations of a ceasefire with Hezbollah agreed upon last year. Al Jazeera reports as per Lebanon’s National News Agency that Israeli jets targeted Mount Safi, the town of Jbaa, the Zefta Valley, and the area between Azza and Rumin Arki in “several waves”. There was no immediate report of casualties. Read the full report here.
