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From 12 November Amul raises Taaza toned milk by Rs 2 a litre (3.3%) and Gold by Rs 4 (5.5%), and Mother Dairy raises its liquid milk by Rs 2 to Rs 4 a litre. It is the first revision since May. Both cite higher fodder, feed, packaging and fuel costs and say most of the rise goes to farmers.
Prateek Rawat4 min
Alexander Darchiev, Russia's ambassador to the United States since March 2025, died in Moscow on 11 November aged 66, the foreign ministry said, citing chronic illness. His career centred on North America, including a spell as ambassador to Canada.
Prateek Rawat4 min
Unions UGT and CCOO held Spain's first general strike in 14 years on 11 November over housing and wages. They called it a huge success and claimed 90% participation in some sectors; employers said most sectors ran normally. About 120,000 marched in Madrid.
Amita Sahani4 min
The Sensex rose 772.75 points, or 0.95%, to 81,879.40 and the Nifty gained 210.40 points, or 0.84%, to 25,255.05 on 11 November, the first session after the Balipratipada holiday. The Nifty PSU Bank index rose nearly 3%, while IT and healthcare shares lagged. Softer crude and foreign buying helped.
Reyaansh Agarawal4 min
President Droupadi Murmu presented the Swachh Survekshan 2025-26 awards on 11 November. Navi Mumbai is India's cleanest city, followed by Surat and Vijayawada, which ends Indore's eight-year run at the top. Visakhapatnam leads the million-plus group and Ujjain the 3 to 10 lakh group.
Amita Sahani4 min
Houthi health officials say a market strike in Taiz on 6 November killed at least 30, and airstrikes on al-Shariya near Sanaa on 7 November killed at least 33, with a later report citing 44. The Houthis blame Saudi Arabia; Yemen's government blames them for the market. Tolls are unverified.
Amita Sahani4 min
Two days of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi ended on 11 November with Russia and Ukraine agreeing in principle to a large prisoner exchange; final numbers are due Thursday. No ceasefire or territorial deal. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff go to Putin in Moscow, then to Zelensky in Dublin.
Subhash Gupta4 min
Washington skipped its Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 10 November, for the second year running. The Council president noted its absence and the review was moved to January 2027. The State Department called the Council irredeemable.
Subhash Gupta4 min
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Augustine George Masih and Sunita Agarwal held that a son who inherits under Section 8 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 holds the property individually, so his own son cannot claim a birthright in it. A 1997 partition suit was dismissed.
Amita Sahani5 min
Euro-area finance ministers received two candidacies on 9 November to succeed Christine Lagarde as ECB president: Spain's Pablo Hernandez de Cos and the Netherlands' Klaas Knot. Lagarde leaves on 7 February 2027, and the Eurogroup president wants a decision by the end of 2026.
Subhash Gupta4 min
The US has confirmed 5,182 measles cases in 2026, 330 of them this week, the 13th straight week with a triple-digit rise, the CDC reports. That is more than twice 2025's total of 2,289 and the most in 35 years. Most are unvaccinated; 11% were hospitalised.
Amita Sahani4 min
President Droupadi Murmu confers the Swachh Survekshan 2025-26 awards at Vigyan Bhawan on 11 November. The tenth edition covers over 4,751 cities on 43 indicators in 10 areas, with more weight on citizen feedback. The ministry had not published the rankings when this was written.
Subhash Gupta4 min
