*TODAYS TOP NEWS*
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1. President Smt Droupadi Murmu interacted with students, teachers and parents from various schools and organisations at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Children’s Day. She said children are the future of the nation and stressed nurturing them into confident and responsible citizens.
2. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will address the Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas programme in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, by video conferencing at 11 am today, marking the 151st birth anniversary of Bhagwan Birsa Munda. He will inaugurate or lay the foundation stone of 246 projects worth about ₹3,000 crore, including 38 Eklavya Model Residential Schools and the Ropuiliani Tribal Freedom Fighter Museum in Aizawl, Mizoram.
3. Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will perform the Bhoomi Pujan of the NHEC Multi-State Cooperative Society at Talegaon Dabhade, Pune, today, inaugurate the Western Regional Office of the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies and launch cooperative-run Bharat Taxi services in Pune.
4. The Centre has sanctioned one lakh more rural houses for Odisha under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana–Gramin (PMAY-G), taking the State’s total to five lakh, Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced at Balangir. A pilot project for poverty eradication will also be launched in Odisha from Balangir.
5. The Centre has started an online portal on which all traders, wholesalers, retailers, large retail chains, processors and millers must declare their paddy and rice stocks, in six categories including Basmati, non-Basmati and broken rice, to prevent hoarding and check prices.
6. Tamil Nadu has imposed stock limits on paddy, rice, tur dal and other pulses to curb hoarding amid rising prices. Wholesalers can hold up to 2,000 tonnes of paddy and rice and retailers eight tonnes per outlet; excess stocks must be cleared by 16 November.
7. The Ministry of Electronics and IT launched an online portal for Indian companies to register as Consent Managers under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023; the framework took effect on 13 November. Applicants need a net worth of at least ₹2 crore. Consent Managers will help people give, review and withdraw consent for use of their personal data.
8. AIIMS New Delhi performed India’s first open fetal surgery, repairing a severe spinal defect (myelomeningocele, a form of spina bifida) in an unborn baby at 25 weeks of pregnancy. The six-hour operation on 12 November involved over 30 doctors and nurses and was done free under the Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram.
9. Indian Railways has approved a weekly train between Janakpur Dham in Nepal and Ayodhya Cantt, covering about 604 km through Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. It will leave Janakpur on Saturdays and Ayodhya on Mondays, with stops including Jaynagar, Sitamarhi, Raxaul, Gorakhpur and Basti.
10. Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav directed the Central Pollution Control Board to immediately seal 191 polluting industries in Delhi-NCR that have not even ordered air pollution control devices. He warned that CAQM will prosecute State transport officials if Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras are not installed by 30 November.
11. The well-marked low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal may become a depression today, a cyclonic storm around 16 November and a severe cyclonic storm by 18 November, the IMD said. Landfall is likely on the north coastal Andhra Pradesh around 19 or 20 November, after Cyclones Arnab and Murasu hit the State.
12. Bird flu (H5N1) has been confirmed at a poultry farm at Kattiyankuppam in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district after tests at the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases, Bhopal. About 35,647 bird deaths have been recorded; 15 farms are affected and culling is under way within a one-km radius.
13. Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi launched the free NIPUN App to track foundational reading, writing and numeracy skills of primary school children, and inaugurated robotics laboratories in 807 government schools set up at a cost of ₹164.33 crore.
14. PI Industries launched Pioxaniliprole, recognised by the Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee as the first insecticide molecule discovered in India, under the brand name Pioxazon. It is registered for rice, chilli, tomato and Bengal gram, and against fall armyworm in maize.
15. Former Vice-President Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar, 75, was discharged from AIIMS, New Delhi, on Saturday, three days after he collapsed during his morning walk and remained unconscious for a few minutes, family sources said. He had been under the care of the Department of Cardiology at the hospital’s Cardio-Neuro Centre.
16. The sacred Piprahwa relics of the Buddha reached the Golden Pagoda at Namsai in Arunachal Pradesh for public exposition, after a six-day exposition at Bomdila. Namsai is the final leg of the relics’ three-district journey in the State.
17. Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri resigned his Rajya Sabha seat from Uttar Pradesh, days after being elected unopposed from Madhya Pradesh on 5 November. Rajya Sabha Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan accepted the resignation; his new term runs till 2 April 2030.
18. TRAI barred or disconnected over 1.24 lakh mobile numbers and other telecom resources and blacklisted 374 entities for one year for spam calls and messages during July–September. Of these, 1,10,325 were barred from outgoing services for 15 days and 13,777 disconnected for a year.
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*NEW APPOINTMENT*
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1. Retired IAS officer Devesh Chaturvedi, former Union Agriculture Secretary, has been appointed Chairman of the new National Sports Board, which can grant or suspend recognition of National Sports Federations. Former TOPS CEO Commodore (Retd) P.K. Garg has been named a member.
2. Dr Karthikeyan S. has been given full additional charge of Kerala Excise Commissioner, replacing Seeram Sambasiva Rao, who was removed from the post over the bar licence issue, as per an order of Chief Secretary Bishwanath Sinha.
3. Senior IPS officer Swati Lakra assumed charge as Telangana’s Director General of Prisons and Correctional Services at the Prison Headquarters in Hyderabad, succeeding Dr Soumya Mishra. Her posting is part of a major reshuffle in which the State government transferred 21 IPS officers.
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*LEGAL REPORT*
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1. The Gauhati High Court called it a “very grim picture” that 1,16,946 declared foreigners across Assam’s 36 districts were yet to be detected and expelled as of 30 June. A Bench of Justices Kalyan Rai Surana and Mridul Kumar Kalita refused to release a woman declared a foreigner by the Jorhat Foreigners Tribunal, held pending expulsion.
2. A special NIA court in Delhi rejected the second bail pleas of Manoranjan D. and Sagar Sharma, accused of jumping into the Lok Sabha chamber and releasing coloured smoke during the 13 December 2023 Parliament security breach. Judge Kiran Bansal said the UAPA charges appear prima facie true.
3. The CBI searched 33 locations in six States linked to panel operators of the Mahadev online betting app, based on disclosures by key accused Sourabh Chandrakar after his extradition from Oman. Live betting panels were dismantled, and phones, devices and papers showing mule accounts and a hawala network were seized.
4. A 20-year-old man, Yash Singh of Airoli, Navi Mumbai, has been arrested for allegedly carrying out a recce of sensitive places in south Mumbai, including the Chabad House, on instructions from online handlers. He was first detained by the Maharashtra ATS and then taken into custody by Kerala police in a Thrissur case.
5. Delhi Police’s Special Cell arrested Deepak Singh alias Deep of Tarn Taran and Vikas Thakur (25) of Jalandhar, wanted in the 3 October murder of Punjab influencer Mad Sandhu in Amritsar. Police sources told PTI that Deep had been told by foreign-based handlers to stay in Mumbai to fire outside actor Amitabh Bachchan’s residence ‘Jalsa’.
6. The Election Commission told the Supreme Court in a supplementary affidavit that it has put in place further measures to bring back eligible voters wrongly left out of the draft electoral rolls as ‘absent, shifted, dead or duplicate’ during the Special Intensive Revision.
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1. In Tarn Taran, Punjab — At Least Five Killed as Two Pilgrim Buses Collide. The buses, run under the Punjab government’s Mukh Mantri Tirath Yatra Scheme, collided head-on on NH-54 near Naushehra Pannuan on Saturday evening, injuring over 15 people. PM Modi expressed grief.
2. In Kodagu, Karnataka — Tourist Couple Drowns as Boat Capsizes in Harangi Backwaters
A couple from Surat, Gujarat, Dharmesh (50) and Nimmi (48), drowned when an adventure boat capsized in the Harangi backwaters on Friday evening, though all four family members wore life jackets; their two children were rescued. A negligence case has been filed against the boat driver.
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*DEFENCE News*
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1. Rear Admiral Tanguy Botman, Commander of the Belgian Navy, on an official visit to India, laid a wreath at the National War Memorial, received a Guard of Honour at South Block, and held talks with Navy chief Adm Krishna Swaminathan on maritime security, training and naval technology.
2. A total of 3,358 trainees passed out at INS Chilka, Odisha, including 2,756 Agniveers (142 women), 286 Navy Medical Assistants and 316 Coast Guard Naviks. Navy chief Adm Krishna Swaminathan reviewed the parade.
3. The armies of India and Malaysia will hold the joint military exercise ‘Harimau Shakti 2026’ from 18 to 30 November to improve interoperability, focusing on jungle and counter-insurgency operations, the Indian Army announced.
4. The India–Italy Defence Industry Cooperation Dialogue was held in New Delhi, co-chaired by Secretary (Defence Production) Sanjeev Kumar and Italy’s National Armament Director Adm Giacinto Ottaviani, to deepen defence manufacturing and technology partnerships.
5. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh hosted Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Defence and Security, at South Block, where they discussed India–EU defence industrial cooperation and regional and global developments.
6. A short-range surface-to-surface missile developed by an Indian private firm completed its second successful flight test from the Integrated Test Range off the Odisha coast, with DRDO support. The first flight was held on 3 November.
7. Cochin Shipyard and SFO Technologies (NeST Group) unveiled India’s first indigenous Hybrid Laser Arc Welding technology, combining laser and arc welding with robotics, at Kalamassery, Kochi. It is expected to speed up shipbuilding and cut dependence on imported welding systems.
*FINANCE*
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INDIAN RUPEE VALUE
💷 GBP ₹125(Approx)
€ Euro : ₹104(Approx)
USD ₹ 94(Approx)
🇨🇦 Canada :CAD ₹66
🇦🇺 Australia : ₹ 64
🇦🇪 UAE Dirham : ₹ 26
🇨🇳 China Yuan ¥ : ₹ 14
🇲🇻 Maldives Rufiya : ₹ 6.07
🇧🇹 Bhutan ngultrum : ₹ 1.00
🇳🇵 Nepal Rupee : ₹ 0.62
🇧🇩 B’desh Taka* : ₹ 0.76
🇵🇰 Pak Rupee : ₹ 0.34
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Rupee : ₹ 0.28
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*BSE SENSEX*
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25,144.30 -155.05 (0.61%)🔻
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*Rates in Financial Capital Mumbai*
GOLD : ₹ 13,706/ 01gm (24 krt)
SILVER : ₹ 1,76,940/KG
1. India’s exports hit a record of nearly $90 billion in October — about $50 billion of goods and $40 billion of services — taking April–October exports to $570 billion, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said while inaugurating the 45th India International Trade Fair in New Delhi.
2. Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles reported a consolidated net loss of ₹5,531 crore for July–September, mainly due to a one-time exceptional charge of ₹6,738 crore and JLR restructuring, though revenue rose 35% to ₹96,340 crore.
3. Mahanadi Coalfields, a Coal India subsidiary, has filed its Red Herring Prospectus for an IPO of about ₹9,500 crore, an offer for sale of up to 66.18 crore shares, or 10% of Coal India’s stake.
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*ENTERTAINMENT NEWS*
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1. Music composer Anirudh Ravichander and businesswoman Kavya Maran married in Greece on 11 November in a ‘self-respect’ wedding without religious rituals, exchanging garlands and chains; Rajinikanth and M.K. Stalin attended.
2. Marathi film ‘Gondhal’, India’s official entry to the Oscars, released across the country on 13 November in multiple languages, director Santosh Davakhar said.
3. The 57th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa will feature ‘Films from BRICS’, a showcase of 21 films from BRICS countries on themes such as democracy, freedom, identity and history.
*14 Nov (Saturday)*
*Vedic Ritu/* Sharad
*Drik Ritu* : Hemant (Prewinter)
पक्ष :: *Shuklapaksh*
*Samvatsara* : Parabhava Nama
(Purnimanta)
*Vikram Samvat – 2083*
*Month* : Kartika 20
(In Amanta calendar)
*Shaka Samvat – 1948*
*Month* : Kartika 5
*Tithi* : Panchami (up to 11:23 pm)Shashthi
*Nakshatra*: Purva Ashadha/
Uttara Ashadha
*Rahu* : 9:24 AM – 10:45 AM
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