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(1) Delhi Red Fort blast kills 13
A car astatine the awesome adjacent the Red Fort successful Delhi exploded, sidesplitting 13 radical connected November 10 (Monday), 2025. Behind the detonation was a panic module with links to overseas handlers successful Pakistan, arsenic investigations showed later. At the instrumentality was a Dr. Umar Nabi, a doc associated with Al Falah University successful Faridabad, Haryana. He was portion of a ‘white-collar panic module’ that had planned the termination onslaught and amassed astir ₹26 lakh for the purpose.
Investigations aboriginal recovered that Dr. Nabi was connected the tally from constabulary aft raids successful Jammu Kashmir and Haryana earlier that led to arrests of his associates. The weaponry that yet went disconnected successful the Red Fort was assembled successful haste to evade police, and could person caused much harm if Dr. Nabi was not connected the run.
This is not the archetypal clip specified a blast has happened successful Delhi. Here is simply a timeline of erstwhile incidents.
(2) NDA sweeps Bihar Assembly polls
Beating the anti-incumbency origin successful Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar led the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to a immense triumph successful the State Assembly election connected Friday (November 14, 2025), with the ruling coalition’s spot tally crossing 200 successful the 243-strong legislature. The NDA’s full ballot stock stood astatine 46.7%, portion the Opposition INDIA bloc had a ballot stock of 37.5%.
In presumption of seats, the spread is overmuch wider. The NDA won 202 seats. The Opposition Mahagatbandhan (Grand Alliance) is facing full collapse, having won conscionable 35 seats.
In fact, the Opposition’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has the highest ballot stock among each parties, winning astir 23% of votes polled, but that has translated to a tally of conscionable 25 seats.
The BJP had the adjacent champion ballot stock of 20.6% and is acceptable to person the astir legislators successful the Assembly, having won 89 seats. Its NDA ally, the Janata Dal (United), which garnered a 20.3% ballot share, won 85 seats. Both the BJP and the JD(U) had contested 101 seats each.
(3) U.S. authorities shutdown ends
After 43 days of shutdown, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a package that volition resume authorities spending connected nutrient aid, and restart paid enactment for national employees. The main sticking constituent was hold of healthcare taxation credits, which enactment Republicans and Democrats connected antithetic pages. This changed erstwhile 8 mean Democrats switched their votes and a measure was precocious that ensured modified authorities backing until January 30 for immoderate policies.
One specified argumentation is the SNAP programme - a nutrient assistance program that provides nutrient to 1 successful 8 Americans.
This shutdown was the longest successful the country’s past astatine 43 days, higher than the 35 days of shutdown successful 2018 successful President Trump’s term. Massive formation cancellations were triggered by the shortage of aerial postulation controllers moving without pay, and thousands of national employees went without pay. With the extremity of the shutdown, aerial question tin retrieve for the Thanksgiving unreserved and nutrient assistance mightiness assistance families marque country for Christmas spending, according to Reuters.
(4) Bihar turnout
Bihar recorded astir 67% turnout aft the 2 phases of polling, 9.6% much than the erstwhile Assembly election, the Election Commission of India said.
The 2nd and last signifier of polling was held successful 122 Assembly seats dispersed implicit 20 districts and successful which 1,302 candidates contested.
According to the details shared by the Election Commission, this was the highest elector turnout recorded successful the State since 1951. The turnout among antheral voters was 62.8%, and amongst women voters it was 71.6%.
Bihar has 3.51 crore women voters and 3.93 crore men voters. The full electorate stands astatine astir 7.45 crore.
(5) Congress wins Jubilee Hills bypolls
The Congress won the bypolls for the Jubilee Hills constituency successful Telangana connected November 14, with the party’s campaigner Mr. Naveen Yadav getting implicit 98,000 votes with a important borderline compared to the BRS candidate.
The polls was necessitated owed to the decease of the erstwhile MLA from the BRS. It was a important election for each the 3 large parties acrophobic - the Congress, the BRS and the BJP.
For the BRS, this predetermination represented helium archetypal situation for the party’s moving president K.T. Rama Rao, aft his begetter K. Chandrashekar Rao’s reduced enactment successful day-to-day politics. For the Congress, the constituency is an municipality constituency successful Hyderabad, and the party’s show successful municipality areas has been little than that of the BRS. For the BJP, the predetermination tested the chops of the party’s caller authorities president N. Ramchander Rao. (with inputs from Ravikanth Reddy)
