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(1) Bihar records improved turnout successful signifier 1 polls
For the archetypal signifier of Bihar’s two-phase Assembly elections, implicit 64% turnout was recorded. This was the highest turnout successful respective constituencies since 2010 for an Assembly election.
Moreover, successful signifier one, nary constituency recorded a alteration successful turnout, dissimilar erstwhile elections successful 2020 and 2015, wherever a antagonistic maturation was recorded successful 18 constituencies successful 2015 and 50 successful 2020. Overall, the mean summation successful turnout (percentage points) was the highest this election. On mean (averaging signifier 1 constituencies), turnout accrued by implicit 8 percent points. compared to the 2020 turnout.
The nonstop interaction of this higher turnout connected winning margins oregon ballot shares depends connected which sections of the elector basal turned up much this year, and who their loyalty lies with. While higher elector turnout whitethorn oregon whitethorn not bespeak a stronger anti-incumbency sentiment among the voters, some the NDA and the MGB alliances person spun it successful their favour.
(2) Delhi’s aerial prime slips into ‘severe’ class again, connected Sunday
Several parts of Delhi registered alarming contamination levels with AQI readings crossing the 400-mark connected Sunday (November 9, 2025). As per CPCB data, Anand Vihar recorded an AQI of 412, Alipur reported 415, and Bawana registered the highest level astatine 436. Chandni Chowk recorded an AQI of 409, portion RK Puram and Patparganj logged 422 and 425, respectively. Sonia Vihar besides recorded a ‘severe’ AQI of 415, indicating hazardous aerial conditions crossed the city.
The mean AQI arsenic per the CPCB’s regular bulletin was recorded astatine 370 for November 9.
On Friday (November 7) and Saturday (November 8), the aerial prime successful the nationalist superior remained successful the ‘very poor’ category. Since Deepavali, the Air Quality Index (AQI) successful Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) has been reeling nether the ‘poor’ and ‘very poor’ categories successful respective areas, adjacent arsenic Stage 2 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) remains successful effect.
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has already announced the doubling of parking fees crossed the nationalist superior aft the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) Stage II was invoked owed to deteriorating aerial quality.
Over a 100 radical took portion successful a protestation against the deteriorating aerial prime for astir 2 hours connected Sunday. Around 55 protesters, including 15 women, were taken distant successful constabulary buses.
(3) ₹3,000 crores stolen successful full owed to cybercrimes
More than ₹3,000 crores person been scammed by fraudsters from victims, the Supreme Court said past Monday (November 3, 2025). The Court was referring to a confidential study submitted by the Union Government. These scams travel a wide modus operandi involving unit tactics and deception to instrumentality victims, usually the elderly, into paying immense amounts of wealth nether menace of apprehension by fake authorities officials. Cross-border links person been recovered successful these scams.
The National Cybercrime Reporting Portal is 1 of the ways victims tin study cybercrimes. Between 2020 and February 2025, the NCRP received complaints of implicit 38 lakh incidents involving implicit ₹36 lakh.
While Uttar Pradesh reported the astir fig of cybercrimes, Maharashtra reported the largest magnitude of wealth involved, followed by Karnataka.
Cybercrimes person a debased condemnation complaint of 27.6% arsenic per the National Crime Records Bureau 2023 report. Pendency complaint stood astatine 92.6% (including cases carried implicit to 2023 from erstwhile years). Chargesheeting complaint was 33.9% for cybercrimes.
(4) Democrat Zohran Mamdani creates past arsenic New York’s archetypal Muslim, South Asian Mayor
Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday (November 4, 2025) made past by becoming New York City’s archetypal Muslim mayor-elect, and its youngest since 1917, topping disconnected a stunning grassroots run led by the connection of affordability and upending a governmental people dominated by affluent donors.
In his triumph speech earlier a jubilant assemblage successful Brooklyn, the 34-year-old erstwhile authorities assemblyman declared, “Tonight, New York has stepped from the aged into the new.” Quoting from Jawaharlal Nehru’s ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech, Mr. Mamdani said, “Standing earlier you, I retrieve the words of Jawaharlal Nehru. A infinitesimal comes, which comes but seldom successful history, erstwhile we measurement retired from the aged to the new, erstwhile an property ends, and erstwhile the psyche of a nation, agelong suppressed, finds utterance.”
He defeated some a Republican challenger Curtis Sliwa and erstwhile New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was backed by a formidable conjugation of billionaires who spent millions successful an effort to artifact his rise.
(5) Earthquake successful Afghanistan kills astatine slightest 20
On November 3, an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck bluish Afghanistan, sidesplitting astatine slightest 20 radical and injuring 945 others. The earthquake comes aft a magnitude-6 earthquake successful August. Six provinces successful bluish Afghanistan reported injuries and deaths, according to WHO appraisal report.
Afghanistan’s conflict-ridden past, involving equipped conflict, governmental instability and economical collapse, person weakened governance, nationalist work transportation and infrastructural resilience, according to a GRADE study from World Bank. Moreover, operation utilizing informal accepted materials similar mud, wood and stone, steep and unstable terrain, inconsistent enforcement of gathering codes person each added to the country’s vulnerability to earthquakes, the study says.
Afghanistan’s presumption betwixt the Eurasian and Indian plates besides makes the portion prone to earthquakes.
In presumption of standard of severity, the latest earthquake is not the much terrible ones the state has faced. Earthquakes successful 1998, 2002, 2015, 2022, 2023 and the August earthquake this twelvemonth killed much people.
