Bihar Assembly Elections 2025: NDA Secures Landslide Victory
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has achieved a sweeping victory in the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025, securing a clear majority with results announced on November 14 and 15, 2025. The NDA was set to win close to 200 out of 243 seats, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerging as the single largest party, demonstrating a nearly 95% strike rate. This outcome reaffirms the popularity and campaign influence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was a prominent face for the ruling alliance during the election campaign. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is now poised to serve his fifth consecutive term. In contrast, the Mahagathbandhan, comprising the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress, and three Left parties, faced a crushing defeat, struggling to cross the 35-seat mark despite initial surveys suggesting strong support for its Chief Ministerial candidate, Tejashwi Yadav. Rahul Gandhi, a Congress MP and Leader of the Opposition, expressed surprise at the results, stating that the election was not fair from the beginning.
Red Fort Blast Investigation Intensifies, J&K Police Station Explosion
Significant developments have occurred in the investigation of the car blast near Red Fort in Delhi. The residential house of Dr. Umar Nabi, who security agencies identified as the driver of the explosive-laden car on November 10, was demolished using explosives in Pulwama, South Kashmir, during the intervening night of November 13-14. Dr. Nabi was reportedly employed at the School of Medical Sciences and Research Centre at Al Falah University in Faridabad. Two more individuals, a medical college professor and a medical student from Jammu and Kashmir, were detained in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the blast. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over the investigation into the Red Fort explosion, scrutinizing links to recent arrests in Kashmir. Separately, an explosion occurred at the Nowgam police station in Srinagar when officers were handling seized explosives, resulting in six fatalities and 27 injuries. Officials linked this blast to ammonium nitrate samples from a suspected terror module.
MeitY Notifies Data Protection Rules
The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) officially notified the long-awaited data protection rules on November 14, 2025. This notification is a crucial step towards establishing a functional privacy law in India, eight years after the Supreme Court declared privacy a fundamental right. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act had received the President's assent in August 2023, and these new rules pave the way for its implementation.
India and Canada Bolster Economic Ties
India and Canada have agreed to strengthen their long-term supply chain partnerships in critical minerals and expand opportunities for investment and trade. This agreement followed a visit to New Delhi by Maninder Sidhu, Canada's Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade, and Economic Development, from November 11 to 14, at the invitation of India's Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal.
Indian Air Force Aircraft Crash Near Chennai
An Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft crashed on November 14, 2025, afternoon on the Thiruporur-Nemmili Road near Chennai. Fortunately, the pilot was able to eject safely from the aircraft.
India Wins Archery Gold at Asian Championships
The Indian men's recurve team delivered a remarkable performance at the Asian Archery Championships in Dhaka on November 14, 2025. The team stunned heavyweights South Korea in a nerve-wracking shoot-off to clinch its first Asian Archery Championships gold in 18 years.
India's Growing Diabetes Burden and Health Initiatives
India is increasingly being referred to as the "diabetes capital of the world," with the diabetic population rising significantly from approximately 32 million in 2000 to nearly 90 million adults in 2024. Recent reports suggest that as many as 1 in 9 Indian adults live with diabetes, with numbers projected to exceed 100 million in the near future. World Diabetes Day was observed on November 14, emphasizing awareness, prevention, and management of the disease. In other health-related news, Prime Minister Modi lauded India's "remarkable progress" in the fight against Tuberculosis (TB), highlighting the need to sustain efforts to eliminate the disease.
New Policy and Economic Initiatives
- Biomass-Based Hydrogen Pilot Initiative: India launched a new ₹100 crore initiative under the National Green Hydrogen Mission (NGHM) at the 3rd International Conference on Green Hydrogen (ICGH 2025).
- National Migration Survey 2026: The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) will launch a year-long national migration survey from July 2026, which will be the first comprehensive migration survey since 2007–08.
- Draft Shram Shakti Niti 2025: The Ministry of Labour and Employment released this draft policy aimed at modernizing labour governance and fostering a fair, inclusive, and technology-enabled labour ecosystem.
- Critical Minerals Royalty Rates: The Union Cabinet approved the specification and revision of royalty rates for four critical minerals—caesium, graphite, rubidium, and zirconium—to boost domestic production.