News Dabba for 17 June 2026: 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 IAF delivering NEET-UG papers across India, Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs meeting Lok Sabha Speaker, to Iranian tankers exiting US blockade zone.

IAF flies over 200 sorties to deliver NEET-UG papers across India, Hindustan Times

The Indian Air Force (IAF) started the mission to transport NEET-UG 2026 question papers across the country ahead of the medical entrance re-examination, Hindustan Times reports. According to ANI, the IAF has flown more than 200 sorties over the past four days as part of an effort to deliver question papers to examination centres. The mission, which began on June 13, is expected to be completed by Wednesday. The report mentions that the re-examination is scheduled for June 21. Read the full report here.

Amid ‘Operation Tiger’ buzz, Sena (UBT) MPs meet Lok Sabha Speaker: Indian Express

With speculation continuing over a possible split in Shiv Sena (UBT)’s parliamentary party, Indian Express reports that leaders of the Uddhav Thackeray-led outfit on Wednesday met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and urged him not to entertain any move by rebel MPs without first hearing the party’s position. Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut, along with Lok Sabha MPs Arvind Sawant and Anil Desai, met Birla in Delhi amid reports that a section of Sena (UBT) MPs could approach the Speaker seeking recognition as a separate group in Parliament. The meeting came a day after Sena (UBT) parliamentary party leader Arvind Sawant wrote to Birla, the report says, requesting that no separate group of Sena (UBT) MPs be recognised if such a request is made before his office. Read the full report here.

BBC reports, Brazil convicts Bolsonaro's son of pursuing US help in father's legal battle

The son of jailed former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been convicted by Brazil's highest court of pursuing US intervention during his father's coup trial last year. BBC reports that Eduardo Bolsonaro, 41, was charged last year with lobbying US authorities to help the ex-president by imposing tariffs or sanctions on Brazil. A former congressman in Brazil, Eduardo relocated to the US in 2025 before his father, who governed the country from January 2019 to December 2022, was found guilty of plotting a military coup and given a 27-year sentence. Read the full report here.

Telegram in Delhi High Court over Centre's 'temporary ban' for NEET re-test, NDTV reports

NDTV reports that instant messaging platform Telegram moved the Delhi High Court Wednesday against the centre's decision to temporarily ban its services across India before the NEET-UG re-test on June 21. The court agreed to hear the matter on an urgent basis, the report says. On Tuesday the centre ordered a 24-hour ban on the recommendation of the National Testing Agency, the central body tasked with conducting qualifying exams like the NEET which is the entrance barrier for admission to medical courses in the country. Read the full report here.

The Straits Times: Iranian tankers exit US blockade zone ahead of peace talks

The first tankers carrying Iranian oil exited a US blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, a tracking website said on June 17, The Strits Times reports, two days before Washington and Tehran launch talks on an agreed peace deal still scant on details – including Iran’s nuclear programme and the lifting of sanctions. The talks on a final settlement are set to begin on June 19 at Switzerland’s Burgenstock mountain resort, as news that the Hormuz Strait will reopen sent world oil prices tumbling. The TankerTrackers website, which monitors oil shipments and storage, said this marked Iran’s “first crude oil exports in two months”, the report says. Read the full report here.