Welcome to Today’s Bharat. Here is what you need to know this week, in five minutes.
1. Navi Mumbai is India’s cleanest city
Navi Mumbai topped the Super Swachh League in the tenth Swachh Survekshan, ranked ahead of Surat and Vijayawada among 4,751 cities. President Droupadi Murmu presented the award to Mayor Sujata Patil in New Delhi on 11 November. The result ends Indore’s eight straight years at the top. Indore came second, behind Ahmedabad, in the new Mentor City category.
The city came third last year. Its civic body credits GPS tracking of garbage vehicles, an app for citizen complaints, 100% sewage treatment and Belapur’s municipal textile recovery facility, which it calls the first of its kind in India. Source
2. Milk is ₹2 to ₹4 a litre dearer in Delhi-NCR
From 12 November, Mother Dairy’s full-cream milk costs ₹76 a litre (up from ₹72), pouched toned milk ₹62 and cow milk ₹65. This is its second increase this year, after May. Earlier this month, Karnataka’s Nandini raised milk by ₹8 a litre, and Amul raised ghee by ₹50 a litre.
Dairies point to higher prices paid to farmers, cattle feed costs up about 15 to 20% on last year, rising diesel and packaging costs, and a below-par monsoon expected to cut supply. Industry sources quoted by Business Standard expect prices to stay high through the winter flush season. Source
A chaiwala cannot do much about the price of milk. Neither can the sweet shop, the home caterer or the neighbourhood bakery. What they can do something about is how easily new customers find them when costs go up.
OpenMap gives local businesses, tutors, coaches and trainers their own page and AI agent, so people (and the AI assistants they use) can find them and send them requests. It is launching in London first.
If you know small food businesses or local service providers, in London or wherever your circle reaches, help us reach them. Become an OpenMap partner
3. Three CRPF personnel injured in Kulgam attack
Around 2:15 pm on 11 November, two men on a motorcycle fired on a CRPF checkpost near Mir Bazar in Kulgam district, about a kilometre from the Jammu-Srinagar highway, before fleeing. Three personnel were injured, one critically, according to PTI. They were taken to hospital in Anantnag.
Security forces cordoned off the area and launched a large search operation, and investigators are going through CCTV footage from nearby shops. Source
4. Telangana to scrap Intermediate board exams
The Telangana government announced on 11 November that it will merge the Board of Intermediate Education into the School Education Department and move to a 10+2 school system from 2027-28. Separate Intermediate exams for Classes 11 and 12, a system in place since 1969, will end.
Schools will be organised as primary (nursery to Class 4), secondary (Classes 5 to 8) and senior secondary (Classes 9 to 12). The government says it will add specialised teaching, more practical skills and better infrastructure, with the aim of reducing dropouts. Source
5. Bihar raises DA, launches startup scheme for young women
Bihar’s cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, approved 32 decisions on 10 November. State employees on the 7th Pay Commission get dearness allowance raised from 60% to 63%, effective from July 1, 2026, at an extra cost of about ₹1,080 crore.
The cabinet also approved new building bye-laws, an ₹88.20 crore Bihar Ki Beti Startup Challenge for up to 2,100 female students, and a ₹126 crore PhD fellowship for girls. Source
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