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(1) New Bihar Cabinet gets Ministers
Follwing an NDA expanse successful the Assembly polls, Chief Minister and JD(U) seasoned Nitish Kumar took oath erstwhile again for the tenth time, on with 26 Ministers (three women and 1 Muslim). Among them, 9 Ministers came from the JD(U), 13 from the BJP, 2 from the HAM(S) and LJP each and 1 from RLM. The BJP became the largest enactment aft bagging 89 seats, intimately followed by the JD(U) with 85.
Mr. Kumar became the longest-serving Chief Minister successful Bihar, with 9 presumption successful his belt. His erstwhile 9 presumption included a 7-day word successful 2000 arsenic good arsenic a tenure implicit 1,800 days successful 2005. However, astatine an all-India level, Mr. Pawan Chamling of Sikkim has served astir 25 years arsenic Chief Minister. Here is simply a look astatine different Chief Minister tenures crossed the country.
(2) Presidential Reference: Supreme Court’s responses to President Murmu’s 14 questions
A five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court opined that the apex tribunal cannot hole timelines for Governors and the President to woody with State Bills under Articles 200 and 201.
However, the Bench clarified that Governors could besides not usage their discretion to edifice to “prolonged and evasive law inaction” successful a deliberate bid to thwart the people’s volition expressed done projected laws passed by State legislatures.
Here is however a Bench headed by Chief Justice B.R. Gavai, besides comprising Justices Surya Kant, Vikram Nath, P.S. Narasimha and A.S. Chandurkar, responded, successful its 111-page opinion, to the 14 questions from President Droupadi Murmu successful a Reference issued by her connected May 13, 2025.
(3) Bangladesh Prime Minister sentenced to death
More than a twelvemonth aft the pupil uprising and consequent authorities enactment successful 2024, erstwhile Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to execution by a Bangladesh tribunal connected November 17, 2025. The tribunal recovered Ms. Hasina blameworthy of crimes against humanity.
Reacting to the verdict, Ms. Hasina said that portion she had mislaid power of the situation, but it was a misreading of facts to characterise what happened arsenic a “premeditated battle connected citizens.”
The events successful question began successful 2024 aft a question of pupil protests erupted successful the state against a jobs preservation made for descendants of those who had participated successful the country’s Independence movement. Protesters saw the preservation arsenic favouring Ms. Hasina’s enactment Awami League and demanded a restructuring.
From there, the protests grew larger and yet led to the ousting of Ms. Hasina and the assignment of a caretaker authorities successful astir a month. Here is simply a timeline showing the series of events.
(4) Australia beats England successful archetypal Ashes test
Australia defeated England successful the archetypal trial lucifer successful the famed ‘Ashes’ trial series connected November 21, 2025. England scored a full of 336 runs crossed their 2 innings portion Australia reached this people by scoring 132 runs successful the archetypal and past 205 successful the 2nd innings.
The bid has been a defining bi-yearly lawsuit for cricket fans successful some Australia and England, arsenic good arsenic cricket fans successful different parts of the world, with past dating backmost to 1882 erstwhile the archetypal bid was played. Through the years, the bid betwixt England and its erstwhile colony has been marked by heated contention betwixt the teams and dense symbolism.
For instance, a British paper published a satirical obituary aft England’s archetypal decision astatine the hands of Australia successful 1882 that the assemblage of English cricket volition beryllium buried and its ashes taken to Australia.
Here is simply a look astatine who the winners successful successive years person been.
(5) Left-wing extremism successful decline
Thirteen Maoists were killed Andhra Pradesh’s Alluri Sitarama Raju territory crossed 2 encounters past week connected November 18 and 19. Among those killed were top Maoist commandant Madvi Hidma, who was the Central Committee Member and South Bastar Battalion Commandant of the banned CPI (Maoist), his woman Madakam Raje, the Chhattisgarh State Zonal Committee Member, and Metturi Joga Rao alias Tech Shankar, a apical Maoist person who was the CPI (Maoist) Central Committee Member successful complaint of Andhra Odisha Border (AOB).
Since 2004, the CPI (Maoist) Party has been liable for the bulk of unit and killings among those perpetrated by Left Wing Extremists, arsenic per the Ministry of Home Affairs. However, the question appears to beryllium dwindling. Incidents related to LWE unit are seeing a diminution since 2010, erstwhile the insurgency was astatine its highest successful the Red Corridor and the UPA-led authorities made the propulsion for a monolithic counter-insurgency offensive.
This diminution has continued nether the NDA-led government, whose multipronged attack — outlined successful the 2015 ‘National Policy and Action Plan to Address LWE’ — has present reached a signifier wherever the Union authorities aims to marque each affected districts “Naxal-free” by March 2026.
There are astir 38 districts that person been identified arsenic those which are affected by LWE, arsenic per Mr. Rai’s reply successful the Lok Sabha successful December 2024. Fifteen of these are successful Chhattisgarh. Mr. Rai’s March 2025 effect cited supra besides states, “The LWE-affected districts person been reduced from 126 to 90 districts by April 2018, further to 70 by July 2021 and past to 38 by April 2024.”
Deaths owed to incidents related to LWE person besides declined since 2010, arsenic shown successful the graphic below.
