News Dabba for 12 November 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 Bihar exit polls, raids in Kashmir, to Isaeli settlers' attacks in West Bank.

Tejashwi Yadav rejects Bihar exit poll projections, Hindustan Times

RJD leader and Mahagathbandhan chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday dismissed the exit poll projections for the Bihar assembly elections, Hindustan Times reports, most of which gave a clear edge to the NDA and many pollsters predicted that the Mahagathbandhan would not form the government. He said he neither lives in false optimism nor in misunderstanding. Addressing a press conference in Patna, Yadav claimed that even while people were still standing in queues waiting for their turn to vote, and the polling process had not yet ended, exit polls were already being released, the report adds. Read the full report here.

Indian Express: Police sweep across Kashmir sees raids on 200 locations, hundreds of detentions

Amid a crackdown on an alleged “militant support network” over the past week, Indian Express reports that the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday conducted raids across four police districts, particularly targeted at the Jammat-e-Islami (JeI), which remains banned since 2019. In a statement, police said that over 200 locations in Kulgam were raided Wednesday, while 400 cordon and search operations have been carried out in the last four days in the South Kashmir district. The sweep comes against the backdrop of the busting of an alleged terror module in Faridabad and Saharanpur whose members were from the Valley. Read the full report here.

Forty-two migrants presumed dead after shipwreck near Libya: Al Jazeera

Forty-two migrants, including 29 from Sudan, eight from Somalia, three from Cameroon and two from Nigeria, have been missing at sea and presumed dead since their boat overturned off the coast of Libya, according to the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM). Al Jazeera reports that their rubber vessel, packed with 49 migrants, capsized on November 3, six hours after departing the northwestern coastal town of Zuwara, as per the IOM. Seven of the passengers survived six days adrift at sea and were rescued on November 8 by a Libyan search and rescue crew, said the IOM. The report says that the accident would mark the latest deadly crossing attempt in the central Mediterranean Sea, where more than 1,000 migrants trying to reach Europe have died this year. Read the full report here.

Top court seeks report on stubble burning, NDTV reports

NDTV reports that the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the governments of Punjab and Haryana to file detailed affidavits outlining the steps taken to prevent stubble burning, as air quality in the national capital and adjoining areas plunged to "severe" levels. A bench, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai, which has been monitoring measures to curb air pollution in the Delhi-NCR, took note of submissions highlighting worsening conditions despite enforcement of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP). Read the full report here.

Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian warehouse and land, BBC reports

Dozens of Israeli settlers launched arson attacks targeting a Palestinian warehouse, a Bedouin village and farmland in the north of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, BBC reports. Several Palestinians were injured. The incidents were the latest in a recent surge in settler violence coinciding with the olive harvest season, when Palestinians head to their agricultural land around towns and villages, the report adds. Read the full report here.