Top news of the day November 14, 2025
Bihar election 2025 results LIVE updates
The NDA was set to sweep the Bihar assembly polls, surging ahead in close to 200 out of 243 seats on Friday (November 14, 2025) with the BJP emerging as single largest party with nearly 95% strike rate, reaffirming the popularity and campaign clout of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was the face of the ruling alliance through the poll battle in Bihar. The Mahagathbandhan, which includes the RJD, the Congress and three Left parties, seemed to be poised for a crushing defeat, notwithstanding surveys and opinion polls showing its Chief Ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav as the most preferred leader for the top post. The Opposition alliance was struggling to cross the 35-seat mark.
Delhi car blast accused Umar Nabi’s house demolished in Pulwama
The residential house of Dr. Umar Nabi, whom security agencies identified as the one who drove an explosive-laden car on November 10 at Red Fort, was demolished by using explosives during the intervening night of November 13-14 in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Meanwhile, Kashmir’s chief cleric, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, in his Friday (November 14, 2025) sermon, urged the Centre to relook its Kashmir approach.
IAF aircraft crashes on Thiruporur-Nemmeli Road near Chennai; pilot ejects safely
An Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft crashed on Friday (November 14, 2025) afternoon on the Thiruporur-Nemmili Road near Chennai. The pilot miraculously ejected himself to safety. The accident occurred at around 2 p.m.
Tarn Taran bypoll results: AAP’s Harmeet Sandhu wins; BJP and Congress lose deposit
The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab on Friday (November 14, 2025) won the bypoll for the Tarn Taran Assembly constituency, even as the party’s vote share fell by about 4.5% against the 2022 assembly election, when the AAP had swept Punjab by winning 92 of the 117 seats.
Jubilee Hills byelection result: Congress’s Naveen Yadav wins by margin of 24,729 votes
Congress candidate Naveen Yadav won the Jubilee Hills byelection by a wide margin of 24,729 votes. The voter turnout for the byelection held on November 11, 2025 was 1,94,631. Of it, Mr. Naveen Yadav secured 98,988 votes. Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) candidate Maganti Sunitha polled 74,259 votes, while BJP candidate Lankala Deepak Reddy secured 17,061 votes.
IND vs SA 1st Test: Bumrah fifer blows away South Africa as India dominate day one
Jasprit Bumrah turned a rare four-spinner gamble into his personal stage, producing a mesmerising exhibition of seam, swing, and control as India skittled out South Africa for 159 on the opening day of the first Test in Kolkata on Friday (November 14, 2025). On a surface that drew pre-match scrutiny for its dry look, prompting India to field four spinners for the first time since 2012, it was India’s pace star who made the ball talk the loudest, returning a superb 14-2-27-5, his 16 five-wicket hauls in 96 innings.
Asian Archery Championship: Indian recurve men stun South Korea in shoot-off to end 18-year wait for gold
The Indian men’s recurve team produced its most stirring performance in recent memory to stun heavyweights South Korea in a nerve-wracking shoot-off to clinch its first Asian Archery Championships gold in 18 years, in Dhaka on Friday (November 14, 2025). The trio of Yashdeep Bhoge, Atanu Das and Rahul rallied from 2-4 down to script a dramatic 5-4 victory over a Korean second-string side comprising Seo Mingi, Kim Yechan and Jang Jiho, breaking Korea’s stranglehold on the event since 2009.
Russia’s massive attack on Kyiv kills four, injures 27
Four people were killed after Russia unleashed a massive combined attack on Kyiv early Friday (November 14, 2025), sparking fires and scattering debris across many districts of the capital, Ukrainian authorities said. At least 27 people were injured as emergency crews responded to multiple strikes, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration. At least 430 drones and 18 missiles were used in the attack across the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
V. Maitreyan, the first Brahmin to hold organisational post in DMK
The appointment of Dr. V. Maitreyan as vice-president of the DMK’s Educators’ Wing has made him perhaps the first Brahmin to hold an organisational post in the Dravidian party. The former Rajya Sabha MP had joined the DMK in August this year. He is among a small number of well-known Brahmins who have chosen to support or join a party traditionally associated with atheism and anti-Brahminism positions. Before Maitreyan, the notable exception was V.P. Raman, who had served as Advocate-General of Tamil Nadu during the AIADMK regime under Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran. Raman was a member of the DMK for four years from 1957.
Iran seizes tanker in Strait of Hormuz, U.S. official says; tensions remain high in region
Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it travelled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday (November 14, 2025), a U.S. official said, turning the ship into Iranian territorial waters in the first-such interdiction in months in the strategic waterway. Iran did not immediately acknowledge the seizure, though it comes as Tehran has been increasingly warning it can strike back after facing a 12-day war in June with Israel that saw the US strike Iranian nuclear sites.
India, Canada strengthen economic ties on critical minerals, trade and investment
India and Canada agreed to bolster long-term supply chain partnerships in critical minerals and expand investment and trade opportunities, the two countries said in a joint statement. The statement, issued on Friday (November 14, 2025), 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 Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal.
WPI inflation falls to (-)1.21% in October on GST cut, favourable base
Wholesale price inflation (WPI) fell to (-) 1 .21% in October, driven by a decline in prices of food articles like pulses and vegetables, as well as lower fuel and manufactured items’ prices, government data showed on Friday (November 14, 2025). WPI-based inflation was 0.13% in September and 2.75% in October last year.
Published – November 14, 2025 05:50 pm IST
