Amul and Mother Dairy raise milk prices by up to ₹4 a litre from today; Mother Dairy full cream now ₹76

On 11 November the Union Cabinet approved Nutrient Based Subsidy rates for phosphatic and potassic fertilisers for the rabi 2026-27 season, from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027. The outlay is about ₹62,370 crore, roughly ₹24,418 crore (64%) more than last rabi. The subsidy on nitrogen rises to ₹94.21 a kg from ₹43.02, and on phosphorus to ₹66.11 from ₹47.96.

The Union Cabinet on 11 November extended Stand-Up India by five years, to 31 March 2031, and approved a ₹4,111 crore credit guarantee corpus. Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the guarantee covers 85% of the loan at a standard fee of 0.5%, with no extra risk premium.

Under the RBI's Domestic Money Transfer Directions, 2026, which take effect immediately, people without an account at a branch can send up to ₹50,000 in cash by NEFT. Cash pay-outs to someone without a bank account are capped at ₹10,000 per transaction and ₹25,000 per receiver a month. Through business correspondents or ATMs, the limit is ₹5,000 per transaction and ₹25,000 per sender a month.

A Reuters investigation published on 11 November found that India's telecom department this year ordered internet providers to block 129 illegal betting sites based on two orders that appeared to come from the Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh high courts. Neither order appears in the courts' records, and the Rajasthan High Court registrar said the document seemed fraudulent. The forged papers carried blue court seals.

On Wednesday, Portugal closed all its schools and most non-essential public services as Storm Charles reached the mainland. People were told to stay indoors and emergency services were put on maximum alert. More than 300 flights were cancelled, according to Al Jazeera, and hundreds of shops closed.

Two days of US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine, their first face-to-face meeting in nine months, ended in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. Both sides confirmed a large prisoner exchange, which US envoy Jared Kushner called the biggest humanitarian release of prisoners, but he also said there is still no trust between the sides. Russia's chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said the swap was agreed in principle; President Zelenskyy said Kyiv was waiting for Moscow's answer on 1,000 for 1,000, possibly up to 1,200.

Iran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei said reports of talks with Washington, or of a meeting in Qatar, were false. He said Tehran is still waiting for a clear US response to its seven conditions, and the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until they are met. Officials say the conditions include lifting sanctions and the US naval blockade and ending fighting on all fronts. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the strait could reopen within two days if the demands are accepted.

Speaking at the COP31 leaders' summit in Antalya, Türkiye, on 11 November, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the climate crisis is moving faster than the world's response. He blamed the fossil-fuel lobby for delays and pointed out that the last four years were the hottest on record and that emissions hit an all-time high in 2025.

The All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA) says offline smartphone sales volumes fell 18–20% over the Diwali days, 6–9 November. Sales value stayed roughly flat because people bought pricier phones, mostly in the ₹30,000–60,000 range. Apple, Google Pixel and Xiaomi did well. Phones under ₹20,000 suffered most, and Realme's volumes dropped more than 50%.

Deepak Poduval, a co-founder of the original CULT gym, has petitioned the Madras High Court to cancel the CULT trademark held by cultfit Healthcare, alleging the 2017 transfer deeds were forged. He has also sued in a Bengaluru commercial court, with the next hearing on 16 November, and filed a police complaint in August against Cult co-founder Rishabh Telang. The Madras HC matter is listed for 2 December.

GoKwik amended its ESOP Plan 2021 to name nine companies: Razorpay, Shiprocket, CRED, Cashfree, Pine Labs, Shopflo, BiteSpeed, Snapmint and WebEngage. If the board decides an employee has joined a competitor, it can cancel both unvested options and vested options not yet exercised. The rule applies for two years after someone leaves, and staff were told in August that it covers existing grants.

The India–UK trade deal, in force since July, cut the duty on Scotch whisky to 75%. Customs officers now argue that bulk Scotch, shipped in large containers and bottled in India, is a concentrate and should pay the full 150%. Pernod Ricard (Chivas, Royal Stag) and Diageo (Johnnie Walker) each have more than 40 containers held at Indian ports, and Bacardi has five.

Qualcomm began cutting jobs at its Bengaluru campus on 9 November, and the cuts are expected to spread to Hyderabad, Delhi-NCR and Chennai. Teams working on RF, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GNSS may be affected. Early estimates put about 1,000 roles at risk out of roughly 20,000 staff in India, though Qualcomm has not confirmed a number and some reports suggest fewer.

According to financial documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI's revenue for July–September 2026 was about $10 billion, up nearly 50% from about $6.7 billion the quarter before. Its adjusted operating loss grew to about $10.9 billion from $10.1 billion.

On 11 November Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2.5, a model that controls robots using vision and language, built on its Gemini 4 Argon model. DeepMind says it was tested on more than 200 tasks and finishes them 20–30% faster than before, with success rates from 30% to 100% depending on the task. In a real-world trial at Mercedes-Benz, it packed automotive parts with 96% success.

Provisional data show foreign institutional investors bought a net ₹12,563 crore of Indian shares on 11 November, while domestic institutions sold a net ₹8,435 crore. Business Today says FPIs have bought about $6.4 billion of Indian equities this month up to 11 November.

When markets reopened on 11 November, the Sensex rose 772.75 points (0.95%) to 81,879.40 and the Nifty 50 gained 210.40 points (0.84%) to 25,255.05. Both were their highest closes since late February. The Nifty opened near 25,338 and gave up some of its early gains.

On 11 November the S&P 500 rose 1.31% to 7,619.38, the Nasdaq gained 1.60% to 25,466.19 and the Dow added 0.49% to 52,486.49. Chip stocks led after strong results from CoreWeave. After the close, Nvidia fell about 8.6% on reports about its CEO (see Startups & Brands).

Niraj Kumar won bronze in the men's 50m rifle three positions at the ISSF World Championship in Doha on 11 November. He topped qualifying with 591, the only shooter above 590, and scored 346.5 in the final; a 9.4 on his last shot cost him a shot at silver. Dmitrii Pimenov won gold with a junior world record of 362.8, and Slovakia's Patrik Jany took silver. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar finished fifth.

The Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot, a new $650,000 event mixing fast classical, rapid and blitz, opened in Budapest on 10 November with a nine-round blitz. Magnus Carlsen won with 7 out of 9 and no losses, ahead of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Levon Aronian.

Lakshya Sen, the eighth seed and world No. 13, beat world No. 24 Chi Yu Jen of Chinese Taipei 21-19, 21-18 on 11 November at the Kumamoto Masters Japan, a Super 500 event running until 15 November. Sen had lost to Chi at last year's Malaysia Open before beating him at the Australian Open.

India face New Zealand's All Whites at Go Media Stadium, Auckland, on 12 November, with kick-off at 7 pm local time, about 11:30 am IST. A second friendly follows in Christchurch on 15 November at 8:30 am IST. The teams drew 0-0 in 1981 and New Zealand won 2-1 in 2018.

Ranabaali, the period action drama starring Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna, starts streaming on Netflix on 13 November in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, 28 days after it hit cinemas on 16 October.

Sacnilk estimates Ramayana: Part 1, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Yash, collected about ₹70.65 crore net on day seven (11 November), taking its India total to ₹511.10 crore net (₹611 crore gross). With about ₹323 crore from overseas, its worldwide gross is around ₹934.55 crore. Other trackers have slightly different figures, so treat these as estimates.

The trailer for Maatrubhumi: May War Rest in Peace was released on 10–11 November. Directed by Apoorva Lakhia and produced under Salman Khan Films, the film stars Salman Khan as Colonel B. Santosh Babu, commanding officer of 16 Bihar, with Chitrangda Singh.

A study by WWF-India and the Rajasthan Forest Department recorded three adult tigers and eight cubs in Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary in Karauli over the past five years, the first confirmed successful cub-rearing there in almost three decades. The 674 sq km sanctuary is the northern extension of Ranthambore.

Pirates seized the Iranian fishing vessel Azini off Somalia's Puntland coast on 29 October. The destroyer INS Kolkata was sent in, and marine commandos, flown in overnight by the Indian Air Force on a mission covering more than 6,000 km, boarded the boat on 2 November and freed all 20 crew without casualties, the Navy said.

Under Project Him Sarovar, Ladakh's Agriculture Department planted about 90,000 saffron corms on 4,000 sq m of restored land in Leh on 1 October. Flowers appeared in under 30 days, against the usual two months.

Dr Sharad P Kale of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre developed Nisargruna, which breaks down kitchen scraps into manure within 24–48 hours. One tonne of waste gives about 150 kg of manure.

EarthFokus was founded in 2019, during Chennai's 'Day Zero' water crisis, and is incubated at IIT Madras. Its WaterOS system uses internet-connected meters and AI to flag unusual flows; a steady flow at 2 am, for example, can reveal a running toilet. Its fixtures can cut tap flow from 10–12 litres a minute to as little as 0.5.

Suhani Gupta started building SkyQi in May 2025 and launched it that September. It estimates how dark the sky is from a phone photo using star counts, brightness and camera settings, and flags pictures where clouds may skew the result. It has received 1,198 photos from more than 490 people in 63 countries; India is the third-biggest contributor.

A 37-year-old pianist on Royal Caribbean's Ovation of the Seas, sailing from Long Beach to Ensenada, is believed to have gone overboard at about 2:30 am on 6 November. Around noon, Sean Norton and Grant Garrett, returning from a fishing trip, saw him roughly 15–20 miles offshore.

Floodwater cut off Kaleb, a 38-year-old chimpanzee, on a small island at the 150-acre Save the Chimps sanctuary near Fort Pierce, Florida. Staff flew bananas and blankets to him by drone, and video shows him picking a banana out of a dropped paper bag.

A study in the journal Antiquity reports 280 engravings, including 55 animals such as horses, wild oxen, bears, goats and deer, deep inside Cova de la Font Major in Catalonia, Spain. The cave has been a tourist site for decades and a museum since 1993.