TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. President Smt Droupadi Murmu interacted with 146 meritorious students and alumni of Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre, as part of Janjatiya Gaurav Pakhwada marking the 151st birth anniversary of Bhagwan Birsa Munda. She urged them to stay connected with their roots and take pride in their tribal heritage, and, after becoming doctors, engineers, administrators and professionals, to work for the development of their villages and communities.
2. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, addressing the Kisan Tak Bharat Agriculture Conference 2026 in New Delhi, said a Viksit Bharat is not possible without developing agriculture, making farming smarter and empowering farmers, adding that “merely filling the granaries is not enough”. He said the PM-KUSUM solar scheme has turned the country’s Annadatas (food providers) into Urjadatas (energy providers), praised the Namo Drone Didis for taking technology to villages, and said India is now first in the world in the production of milk, pulses, jute, rice and millets and second in wheat, cotton, fruits, vegetables and fish, with farm exports of over ₹4 lakh crore a year.
3. Vice-President Shri C.P. Radhakrishnan will visit Visakhapatnam today (13 November) to address the valedictory session of the 31st CII Partnership Summit.
4. The Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, launched by the Social Justice Ministry on 15 August 2020, has reached over 35.88 crore people, including more than 14.35 crore youth and 11.33 crore women, and over 2 lakh citizens have enrolled as ‘Nasha Mukti Mitr’.
5. India recorded a 38% fall in TB deaths since 2015, more than the global decline of 35%, and a 94% treatment success rate for drug-sensitive TB, according to the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2026 released on 12 November.
6. The Heavy Industries Ministry received 22 bids — including from Reliance Industries, Amara Raja, Exide Energy, JSW Neo Energy, Waaree and Vikram Solar — for 10 GWh of Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) battery manufacturing capacity for grid-scale energy storage under the PLI scheme for ACC battery storage, approved in May 2021 with an outlay of ₹18,100 crore and a target of 50 GWh.
7. The Tribal Affairs Ministry, with the CSIR–National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow, launched a three-year national project to conserve medicinal plants and create sustainable livelihoods in 16 tribal hotspots across 13 States and UTs, at the Central University of Odisha in Koraput. The project, titled ‘Integrated Conservation, Agro-Technology and Bioresource Enterprise Development for Sustainable Tribal Livelihoods’, will combine the traditional knowledge of tribal communities with modern agro-technology to help them set up enterprises based on local bioresources.
8. Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Paatil, at the first regional conference on Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) 2.0 in Tiruchirappalli for seven southern States and UTs, said tap water connections now reach about 16 crore rural households. He asked States to complete the remaining works within the Mission deadline of December 2028, and by December 2027 wherever possible, and said JJM 2.0 marks a shift from building infrastructure to assured and sustainable drinking water services, with focus on operation and maintenance, Gram Panchayat-led water governance and groundwater recharge.
9. The Road Transport Ministry has proposed reforms to the rent-a-cab scheme to make it easier to start a cab rental business. Operators may offer cabs with or without drivers, the minimum fleet will fall from 50 to five, and a single electronic licence valid across a State or UT will replace separate licences, with a 60-day timeline for approvals.
10. Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi launched three digital initiatives of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) — the AI-integrated Vidya Samiksha Kendra with a ‘Samiksha’ AI Bot that tracks attendance, academic performance and infrastructure in real time.
11. The 45th India International Trade Fair (IITF) will be held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, from 14 to 27 November on the theme ‘Vikas aur Virasat’, with Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurating it today. More than 3,500 exhibitors from India and abroad will take part across 17 halls, with 32 States and UTs and 11 countries.
12. The Government is planning a special session of Parliament to pass a Constitution amendment bill to implement 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies, sources said. The bill proposes raising the Lok Sabha’s strength from 543 to a maximum of 850 seats through delimitation and needs a two-thirds majority; a similar bill earlier failed to get the required numbers.
13. The Infosys Science Foundation announced the six winners of the Infosys Prize 2026, each of whom gets a gold medal, a citation and $100,000, the prize honours researchers under 40.
14. IIT Kharagpur, India’s first IIT, has become the first IIT in the country to start postgraduate medical degree (MD) courses after getting approval from the National Medical Commission (NMC). The first batch will join in the 2026-27 academic session at its Dr B.C. Roy Multi-Speciality Medical Research Centre, with admissions through NEET-PG counselling.
15. Draft electoral rolls under the Special Summary Revision 2027 were published in Tamil Nadu and Punjab. Tamil Nadu has 5.77 crore voters, with women (2.95 crore) outnumbering men (2.82 crore) by about 13 lakh, and 7,892 third-gender electors; deletion and correction of entries will be held on 21, 22 and 29 November.
16. AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi and Azad Samaj Party chief Chandrashekhar Azad announced an alliance, the ‘Samajik Parivartan Morcha’, for next year’s Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and said it will contest all 403 seats, with Azad, the MP from Nagina, as its Chief Ministerial face.
17. The exposition of the Sacred Relics of Shakyamuni Buddha in Arunachal Pradesh has drawn nearly 50,000 devotees so far, the Culture Ministry said. After being displayed at the Tawang Monastery from 31 October to 7 November, where over 31,000 devotees paid homage, the relics are at the Thubchog Gatsel Ling Monastery in Bomdila till today and will be displayed at the Golden Pagoda in Namsai from 14 to 20 November.
18. The Centre is backing a proposed ₹30,000-crore greenfield shipbuilding cluster at Dugarajapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, which has received in-principle approval under the national shipbuilding mission and is planned to build 1.2 million gross tonnes a year, Ports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said at the CII summit.
19. Former Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, 75, who was admitted to AIIMS, New Delhi, after he fell unconscious during his morning walk on Wednesday, underwent cardiac and neurological tests and will remain in hospital, according to reports; a decision on his discharge is expected on Friday after the test results. AIIMS has not issued a formal bulletin so far. Dhankhar, India’s 14th Vice-President, resigned in July 2025.
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NEW APPOINTMENT
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1. Nvidia named its Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as interim CEO after co-founder Jensen Huang, 63, resigned with immediate effect on 12 November as President, CEO and director, ending a 33-year tenure as the company’s only CEO, amid reports of two alleged extramarital relationships, one reportedly with a woman suspected by US officials of links to Chinese intelligence. Kress.
2. Senior IPS officer Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat, now DGP (Law & Order), has been appointed Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad, replacing V.C. Sajjanar, who becomes Director-General of Telangana Fire, Disaster Response, Emergency and Civil Defence, with additional charge of the Special Protection Force, in a reshuffle of 21 IPS officers ordered on Thursday.
3. Sunil D’Souza, Managing Director and CEO of Tata Consumer Products, took charge as Chairman of Voltas, the Tata Group’s air-conditioning and engineering company, from 12 November, succeeding Noel Tata, who retired as Chairman and Director on 11 November on reaching 70 under Tata Group governance guidelines.
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LEGAL REPORT
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1. The bullet-riddled bodies of two Special Police Officers (SPOs) of the J&K Police’s Special Operations Group, Rashpal Kumar (45) and Bobby Chand (57), were recovered from a forest area in Kishtwar district’s Dachhan sector on Thursday, a day after they went missing while travelling to an Army post at Dharna-Marwah for rotation duty. Their INSAS and .303 service rifles were missing, and security forces have intensified searches to trace the attackers. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah condemned the “cowardly act of violence”; police have not confirmed a terror link, and no group has claimed responsibility.
2. A Kuki woman farmer, Kimneineng Chongloi, was shot dead and two men were injured when unidentified armed men opened fire on villagers harvesting paddy under security cover at Taphou Kuki village in Manipur around 11 am on Thursday,
3. A special CBI court in Mohali sentenced former Punjab SSP Gurmeet Singh Randhawa to five years in jail and fined him ₹50,000 for abduction in the 1992 disappearance of Ludhiana transporter Amrik Singh Sakri, nearly 34 years after the crime. Sakri was picked up by police from a wedding hall in Ludhiana on 25 November 1992; Randhawa was then a DSP in Tarn Taran. A constable was acquitted, while four other accused, including former Tarn Taran SSP Ajit Singh Sandhu, died during the trial.
4. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 22 kg of cocaine from a foreign woman who arrived in New Delhi from Sierra Leone posing as a diplomatic courier. She carried a briefcase-type box marked “Diplomatic Mail” and “Do Not Open Without Authority”, with apparently forged papers claiming it belonged to a United Nations courier; 22 brick-shaped packets of cocaine were found inside. She was arrested. In another case, the DRI seized 12.87 tonnes of red sanders worth ₹7.72 crore bound for Malaysia at Chennai Port and arrested three people.
5. The Ladakh administration imposed restrictions on climate activist Sonam Wangchuk for 60 days, barring him from organising or taking part in any unauthorised rally, procession or public gathering, on a request from the Leh SSP citing his “activities and previous antecedents”.
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1. In Delhi — Three Killed as Dumper Truck Hits Auto-rickshaw near Pusta No. 5 in Sonia Vihar, northeast Delhi, around 5:15 am on Thursday, the Delhi Fire Service said. A three-year-old girl in the auto escaped unhurt. The injured were taken to Jag Pravesh Chandra Hospital by locals.
2. In Fujairah, UAE — 14 Killed in Truck Crash and Fire
Fourteen people, including Indian nationals, were killed and 30 injured when a truck driver lost control shortly before midnight on Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Road near the entrance to Fujairah.
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DEFENCE News
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1. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, addressing the Air Force Commanders’ Conference in New Delhi, urged the forces to strengthen both offensive and defensive aspects of the ‘element of surprise’ and to prepare for kamikaze drones, surveillance and counter-drone operations. He asked the IAF to develop doctrines for electronic, cyber and space warfare,
2. Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth launched the revamped Gallantry Awards portal (gallantryawards.gov.in) to honour gallantry awardees and preserve their legacy. It has sections on memorials and museums, a ‘Warpedia’, a ‘Gallantrypedia’ of articles and a tribute section, and hosts ‘Veer Gatha’, the student programme on the stories of gallantry awardees, which has grown from about 8 lakh students in its first edition to over 1.92 crore students.
3. Over 20.48 lakh defence pensioners had submitted Digital Life Certificates (DLCs) by 11 November under the nationwide DLC Campaign 5.0 (1–30 November), the highest among all departments, the Defence Ministry said. The Controller General of Defence Accounts has mobilised 194 SPARSH Service Centres, 4.63 lakh Common Service Centres and partner banks to help elderly, super-senior and differently-abled pensioners complete their annual identification without hardship.
4. The Indian Army has begun field trials at Pokhran, Rajasthan, for its Jet Based Kamikaze Drone System (JBKDS), a fast-track procurement of 540 jet-powered kamikaze drones worth about ₹2,000 crore,
5. A delegation from the 55th Army Higher Command Course of the Army War College visited the Indonesian National Armed Forces International Cooperation Centre in Jakarta, where it was briefed on Indonesia’s defence and security strategy and discussed areas of bilateral military cooperation, the Indian Embassy said. The visit follows the 12th edition of the India–Indonesia joint military exercise ‘Garuda Shakti’, held at Banyuwangi, Indonesia, from 27 October to 5 November.
FINANCE
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1. Retail inflation rose to 6.09% in October from 5.54% in September, breaching the RBI’s upper tolerance limit of 6% for the first time since October 2024, as food inflation jumped to 8.94% from 7.74%, data on the new CPI series (base 2024=100) showed.
2. India’s net direct tax collections rose 11.76% to ₹14.42 lakh crore in the current financial year up to 10 November, Income Tax Department data showed, while gross collections grew 14.02% to ₹17.50 lakh crore.
3. South Korean carmaker Kia and its component suppliers will invest $2 billion (about ₹18,700 crore) to set up a second car factory at Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, adding 2 lakh units of annual capacity from early 2030 and taking Kia India’s total capacity to 6.30 lakh units.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
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1. ‘Ramayana’ Crosses $100 Million Worldwide
Nitesh Tiwari’s ‘Ramayana: Part 1’, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sai Pallavi, has become the first Indian film to gross over ₹100 crore worldwide on seven straight days, taking its global total to ₹934.55 crore. It has also crossed $100 million worldwide, the first film from outside China to do so in 2026.
2. Emraan Hashmi’s ‘Gunmaaster G9’ Trailer Out, Film Releases on 27 November
The trailer of ‘Gunmaaster G9’, directed by Aditya Datt, shows Emraan Hashmi as an ex-gangster out to avenge his love, played by Genelia Deshmukh, with Aparshakti Khurana as the villain. The action thriller, with music by Himesh Reshammiya, releases in theatres on 27 November.
3. Remembering Johnny Walker on His Birth Centenary
Comedian Johnny Walker, born Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi on 11 November 1926, would have turned 100 this week. A former bus conductor who got his break from Guru Dutt, he is remembered for ‘Sar jo tera chakraye’ in ‘Pyaasa’ (1957) and gave Hindi film comedy a warm, clean style.
13 Nov (Friday)
Vedic Ritu/ Sharad
Drik Ritu : Hemant (Prewinter)
पक्ष :: Shuklapaksh
Samvatsara : Parabhava Nama
(Purnimanta)
Vikram Samvat – 2083
Month : Kartika 19
(In Amanta calendar)
Shaka Samvat – 1948
Month : Kartika 4
Tithi : Chaturthi (up to 8:42 pm)Panchami
Nakshatra: Mula/
Purva Ashadha
Rahu : 10:44 AM – 12:05 PM
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