INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. Saudi Arabia-flagged oil tanker NCC Fajr, with three Indian seafarers on board, was involved in a “possible attack” while passing through the Strait of Hormuz, Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said, adding that all three Indians and the rest of the crew are safe.
2. Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal held talks in New Delhi with Canada’s Minister of International Trade, Maninder Sidhu, on advancing negotiations for the India–Canada Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).
3. The first BIMSTEC Health Ministers’ Meeting in Colombo adopted a Joint Ministerial Statement and a revised Plan of Action on Public Health for 2026–2030. Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda announced that India will host a BIMSTEC Centre of Excellence in Traditional Medicine at ITRA, Jamnagar, and support 50 Health ATMs in Sri Lanka.
4. External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar and West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari launched the website pbdindia.gov.in for the 19th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention, to be held in Kolkata from 7 to 9 January on the theme “Return to Roots: Reigniting the Diaspora Connect with Bharat”. PM Modi will inaugurate the convention and President Murmu will confer the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards; a special Bharat Ko Janiye quiz runs till 20 December.
5. Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh began a three-day visit to Italy to deepen scientific cooperation with Europe. He will lead the second India–Italy Science and Innovation Dialogue in Rome today (12 November), hold talks with Italian ministers on space, aerospace and research, visit research institutions in Trieste and join a World Diabetes Day event in Rome on 14 November.
6. At the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-26) in Doha, Minister of State for Communications Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani said developing countries must have a greater say in setting global technology standards and spectrum policy, and that “cyber threats do not respect borders, and neither should our cooperation”. He highlighted India’s roughly $15 billion investment in BharatNet and said fraud alerts sent to banks had prevented suspected losses of over ₹5,000 crore.
7. CSIR, Norway’s SINTEF and the Research Council of Norway held an India–Norway Dialogue on ‘Waste to Resource Solutions in the Cement and Construction Sector’ in New Delhi, exploring joint technologies to reuse construction waste, steel slag, fly ash and red mud, and the safe destruction of hazardous wastes such as persistent organic pollutants in cement kilns.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. Russia and Ukraine agreed to a large-scale exchange of prisoners of war after two days of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi, US envoy Jared Kushner said, adding that the numbers would be finalised on Thursday. Russian delegation head Vladimir Medinsky and Ukraine’s Rustem Umerov confirmed the exchange.
2. Militants ambushed vehicles carrying police officers in Kohat district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan, as they returned from an operation against illegal gold mining, killing 10 policemen, including a deputy superintendent of police, while 18 militants were killed in the gunbattle that followed, police said. The Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan) claimed the attack.
3. Millions of workers in Spain joined the country’s first general strike in 14 years, called by the main unions UGT and CCOO to demand action on the housing crisis, less than three weeks before a national election. Unions reported 90% stoppage in the automotive and port sectors; roadblocks with burning tyres were set up in Barcelona and picketers scuffled with police near Madrid. Average rents in Spain have almost doubled in 10 years.
4. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak has crossed 11,000 confirmed cases, with 11,042 infections and 5,387 deaths, according to the country’s National Institute of Public Health, while about 2,990 people have recovered.
5. At the COP31 UN climate summit in Antalya, Turkey, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned that wars and trade disputes must not distract the world from fighting climate change.
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