TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. President Smt Droupadi Murmu presented the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2025-26 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, and said no single organisation can achieve cleanliness alone — it needs the participation of every citizen, household, community and city. Cleanliness,
She said citizen feedback should be used to improve municipal services and not only for rankings, called for special focus on building the capacities of fast-growing Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities, and suggested teaching plastic-waste management in schools.
2. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka and Gujarat on 13 and 14 November. In Bengaluru he will inaugurate, dedicate and lay the foundation stones of projects worth over ₹15,600 crore, including the Bengaluru Metro’s Pink Line (Kalena Agrahara–Tavarekere), India’s largest underground LPG storage cavern at Mangaluru, four Amrit Bharat stations and the Bengaluru–Mangaluru–Madgaon Vande Bharat Express.
He will also open the COSMOS-Mysuru Planetarium, India’s first LED dome planetarium, and pray at the Ambaji temple in Banaskantha, one of the 51 Shakti Peethas, on 14 November.
3. Vice-President Shri C.P. Radhakrishnan, at the 105th Foundation Day of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank in Thoothukudi, urged banks to back MSMEs, farmers, entrepreneurs and women-led enterprises to realise Viksit Bharat @2047. Founded in 1921 as Nadar Bank.
4. In the Swachh Survekshan 2025-26 results, Navi Mumbai, Surat and Vijayawada were the top three in the Super Swachh League, while Greater Visakhapatnam, Jabalpur and Lucknow led the million-plus category and Ujjain, Chandigarh and Guntur the 3–10 lakh category. Awards were given for the first time for a Swachh River Front Town (Rewa first, then Bilaspur and Varanasi), a Swachh Coastal Town and a Clean Himalayan City.
5. The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Modi approved continuing the Stand-Up India Scheme for five more years, till 31 March 2031, with a credit guarantee corpus of ₹4,111 crore, aiming to help at least 2.5 lakh more women, SC and ST entrepreneurs. Bank loans above ₹10 lakh and up to ₹1 crore (up to 85% of project cost) for new enterprises in manufacturing, services, trading and agri-allied activities get 85% guarantee cover at a 0.5% fee.
6. The Cabinet also extended the Credit Guarantee Fund for Micro Units (CGFMU) till March 2031 with a ₹5,000-crore corpus, expected to enable PM Mudra Yojana loans of ₹12.6 lakh crore over five years. Run through the National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company, it guarantees Mudra loans up to ₹20 lakh, Jan Dhan overdrafts up to ₹10,000 and some SHG loans.
7. The Cabinet approved Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) rates on phosphatic and potassic (P&K) fertilisers, including DAP, for the Rabi 2026-27 season (1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027), with a tentative outlay of about ₹62,370 crore — roughly ₹24,418 crore more than last Rabi’s ₹37,952 crore — in view of higher global prices of urea, DAP, MOP and sulphur.
8. The Cabinet cleared an 8.449-km extension of the Noida Metro’s Aqua Line from Noida Sector-51 to Greater Noida Sector-4, with five elevated stations, at a cost of about ₹2,390 crore. It will have an interchange with the Delhi Metro’s Blue Line at Noida Sector-61, and will take the active metro network in Noida and Greater Noida to 71.878 km, linking malls, IT offices, hospitals and large housing societies.
9. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum at the historic North and South Block complex in New Delhi at a cost of ₹3,230 crore, to be built in phases between 2026-27 and 2030-31.
10. The Home Ministry said India has simplified its visa regime, cutting main visa categories from 13 to nine and sub-categories from 49 to 23 and making application forms 65–70% shorter. The Tourist Visa has been renamed the ‘Visitor Visa’, with a 30-day multiple-entry V-1 for short visits, including business meetings and medical consultations, and a V-2 valid for 1, 5 or 10 years.
11. The number of villages without 4G coverage has fallen by nearly 75%, from 45,180 in 2022 to 11,372 in 2026, the Department of Telecommunications said.
12. The Tribal Affairs Ministry is holding a two-day National Tribal Literary Festival at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, on 12 and 13 November to promote tribal languages, oral traditions and literature, as part of Janjatiya Gaurav Pakhwada (1–15 November). The fortnight culminates on Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas on 15 November, the birth anniversary of Bhagwan Birsa Munda, observed since 2021.
13. Union Ports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal dedicated a ₹19-crore, 710-metre waterfront promenade at Visakhapatnam Port to the public and laid foundation stones for four projects, taking the port’s package of new works to about ₹560 crore.
14. Telangana will replace its two-year Intermediate system with a 10+2 school system from the 2027-28 academic year, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy announced, so that schools teach from nursery to Class 12, as in CBSE and ICSE schools. He proposed three stages — nursery to Class 4, Classes 5 to 8 and Classes 9 to 12 — citing high dropout rates after Class 10, especially among girls, Dalit, tribal and minority students; 18 States already follow the model.
15. The portals of Kedarnath Dham in Rudraprayag and Yamunotri Dham in Uttarkashi closed for winter on Bhai Dooj.
16. Delhi’s air slipped back to ‘Very Poor’ on Wednesday, with the 24-hour average AQI at 313 against 299 a day earlier.
17. The Centre has declared the Raniwas (Ranivas) Mound at Kesariya in Bihar’s East Champaran district, near the famous Kesariya Stupa, a Monument of National Importance under the AMASR Act, 1958, through a final notification of 4 November. The 1.63-acre site was explored in 1861 by Alexander Cunningham, the first Director-General of the ASI.
18. Goa’s Palolem Beach in Canacona, South Goa, has been ranked sixth in the world and the best in Asia in the Beach.com Global Beach Index 2026, the only Asian beach in the top 25.
19. Srinagar MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi announced that he was quitting the National Conference and resigning from the Lok Sabha, at a rally in Budgam on the 26th death anniversary of his father, Aga Syed Mehdi. Accusing Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and NC president Farooq Abdullah of abandoning the fight to restore Article 370, the three-time MLA, elected to the Lok Sabha in 2024, hinted at launching a new political movement.
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NEW APPOINTMENT
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1. Tata Power appointed Sanjay Banga, CEO and MD of Tata Power Renewable Energy and the company’s President–Renewables, as CEO-designate and additional director with effect from 11 November. He will become CEO and Managing Director for five years from 1 May 2027 to 30 April 2032.
2. Senior lawyer Bahram Vakil takes over as Chairman of Tata Investment Corporation from today (12 November), succeeding Noel Tata, who retired under the Tata Group’s governance guidelines .
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LEGAL REPORT
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1. Three CRPF personnel of the 46th Battalion were injured when terrorists opened fire from close range at a checkpoint in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district around 2:15 pm on Wednesday; one, seriously hurt, was airlifted to the Army’s Base Hospital in Srinagar. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha visited him, condemned the attack and said security forces have been given a “free hand” to crack down on terrorists.
2. Ladakh Police removed climate activist Sonam Wangchuk from a protest site at NDS Memorial Park in Leh and escorted him home as a “preventive” step, citing prohibitory orders on rallies within Leh Municipality during the election process, a day before the Leh Apex Body planned to resume its protest.
3. The Gauhati High Court quashed the National Security Act detention of activist Pranab Doley, held since 30 July over a protest at the Assam Tea Tribe Museum and ATDC-Hyatt hotel project site in Golaghat.
4. Uttar Pradesh Police registered an FIR against unknown persons after the Allahabad High Court found that a fake High Court order, dated 14 August and bearing a judge’s name, had been relied on by the Department of Telecommunications to order the blocking of 95 websites said to stream pirated IPL matches and run betting platforms.
6. The Tamil Nadu Government told the Madras High Court that the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption will register a “structured FIR” within four days in the alleged scam over the purchase of ‘AI-generated’ books for public libraries, and that three bank accounts have been frozen.
7. The Central Bureau of Narcotics busted a clandestine mephedrone (MD) laboratory in the Tajopur Industrial Area of Mau, Uttar Pradesh, under ‘Operation Vajra 3.0’, seizing 11.7 kg of mephedrone, 20.9 kg of a key precursor chemical, 3.5 kg of acetic anhydride and about 120 kg/litres of other chemicals and solvents.
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1. In Sangrur, Punjab — Three Killed, 26 Injured as PRTC Bus Crashes
Three passengers, including two women, were killed and 26 injured when a speeding Pepsu Road Transport Corporation (PRTC) bus going from Dhuri to Chandigarh hit an overbridge wall and overturned into a roadside field on the Bathinda–Chandigarh highway in Sangrur early on Wednesday.
2. In Kamrup (Metro), Assam — Kolkata–Sairang Express Derails at Digaru
The locomotive and five coaches of the Sairang–Kolkata Express, en route to Kolkata from Mizoram, derailed while entering Digaru station near Guwahati around 6:54 am on Wednesday,
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DEFENCE News
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1. The fifth edition of the pan-India coastal defence exercise ‘Sea Vigil-26’, coordinated by the Indian Navy, began on 11 November and runs till 19 November — a readiness evaluation phase till 17 November followed by a sea phase on 18–19 November. Conceived in 2018 after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, it covers the entire coastline and EEZ, with the Navy, Coast Guard, Coastal Security Police, Customs and fishing communities, and is a build-up to the Navy’s TROPEX exercise.
2. The Defence Ministry signed a ₹498.58-crore contract with Cochin Shipyard Ltd for the normal refit and re-powering of the Brahmaputra-class frigate INS Betwa. Its steam propulsion will be replaced with a diesel-engine system and its weapon suite modernised; more than 50 MSMEs are expected to take part in the project.
3. The Indian Navy and the Royal Navy of Oman held the 15th edition of their bilateral exercise ‘Naseem Al Bahr’ (Sea Breeze). The harbour phase covered expert exchanges on explosive ordnance disposal, mine countermeasures and hydrography, and at sea INS Surat and the Omani ship Al-Mu’azzar carried out visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) drills and cross-deck operations, in line with India’s MAHASAGAR vision.
4. The eighth India–Myanmar Naval Exercise (IMNEX-26) is under way at Visakhapatnam from 10 to 14 November, with Myanmar Navy ship UMS King Sin Phyu Shin joining INS Rana and INS Sumedha. A harbour phase of professional exchanges and cross-deck visits will be followed by a sea phase of coordinated operations and tactical manoeuvres.
5.The Indian Air Force will hold a week-long air exercise close to the Line of Actual Control in Uttarakhand from 13 to 21 November, with Sukhoi-30MKI, Tejas and Rafale fighters expected to take part, according to a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) issued for the airspace.
6. INS Trishul concluded a port call at Egypt’s Safaga Naval Base on 9 November during its operational deployment. Its Commanding Officer called on the Commander of Egypt’s Red Sea Naval Base, discussing maritime security in the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea, and the two navies held joint diving training.
FINANCE
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Rates in Financial Capital Mumbai
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SILVER : ₹ 1,86,370/KG
1. The DGFT has prohibited the export of lithium-ion battery ‘black mass’ — the powder obtained by shredding used lithium-ion batteries, which contains lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese — with immediate effect. The move aims to keep this critical-mineral feedstock for domestic recyclers and complements the ₹1,500-crore incentive scheme for critical mineral recycling under the National Critical Mineral Mission.
3. Amul (GCMMF) raised fresh pouch milk prices by ₹2–4 a litre, or 4–5%, across India from today (12 November), citing a sharp rise in the cost of fodder, cattle feed, packaging film and fuel. Amul Taaza toned milk costs ₹2 a litre more (3.3%) and Amul Gold ₹4 more (5.5%); it last raised prices in May.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
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1. Anirudh Ravichander Weds Kaviya Maran in Greece
Music composer Anirudh Ravichander married Kaviya Maran, CEO of Sunrisers Hyderabad and Executive Director of Sun TV Network, at an intimate ceremony on a Greek island after a two-day celebration that began on 10 November. Rajinikanth and former Tamil Nadu CM M.K. Stalin attended; a reception is planned in Chennai on 21 November.
2. Salman Khan’s ‘Maatrubhumi’ Trailer Out, Film Releases on 4 December
The trailer of Salman Khan’s war film ‘Maatrubhumi’, inspired by the 2020 Galwan clash in eastern Ladakh and earlier titled ‘Battle of Galwan’, has been released. Directed by Apoorva Lakhia and co-starring Chitrangada Singh, it hits theatres on 4 December.
3. Imtiaz Ali’s ‘O Saathi Re’ to Stream from 4 December
Netflix will release ‘O Saathi Re’, starring Aditi Rao Hydari, Arjun Rampal and Avinash Tiwary, on 4 December. Co-written and created by Imtiaz Ali and directed by Arif Ali, the series follows the growth of affection in a divorcing couple.
12 Nov (Thursday)
Vedic Ritu/ Sharad
Drik Ritu : Hemant (Prewinter)
पक्ष :: Shuklapaksh
Samvatsara : Parabhava Nama
(Purnimanta)
Vikram Samvat – 2083
Month : Kartika 18
(In Amanta calendar)
Shaka Samvat – 1948
Month : Kartika 3
Tithi : Tritiya (up to 6:09 pm)Chaturthi
Nakshatra: Jyeshtha/
Mula
Rahu : 01:26 PM – 02:47 PM
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