Top news of the day November 14 2026

Pakistani Minister to visit India for the first time in three years, as SCO meets

Pakistan's Climate Minister Musadik Masood Malik will represent the country at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Civilizational Dialogue to be held in New Delhi from November 20-22, 2026, the country's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. This marks the first visit by a Pakistani minister to India in more than three years.

"The Government of Pakistan remains committed to promoting dialogue among civilisations and fostering people-to-people contacts within the SCO framework in a spirit of mutual," reads the statement.

Mekedatu is Karnataka's right, we will build dam and release Tamil Nadu's share of water: D.K. Shivakumar

Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Saturday (November 14, 2026) asserted that Karnataka would go ahead with the Mekedatu balancing reservoir project, describing it as the State's right and duty, while assuring that Tamil Nadu would receive its stipulated share of Cauvery water.

Responding to opposition to the project from leaders in Tamil Nadu, including State Congress president Manickam Tagore, Mr. Shivakumar said the neighbouring State should send a delegation to Karnataka to understand the project's benefits rather than oppose it. "Anyone is free to oppose it, but Tamil Nadu must recognise that this is our State and our right. If they wish, let them send a delegation. I am prepared to take them to the dam site and explain the project," he told presspersons.

Mahadev betting app case: CBI searches in 6 States lead to recovery of digital devices, key documents

The CBI has conducted searches at 33 locations across six States in connection with its investigation into the Mahadev online betting app case, recovering digital devices, mobile phones and documents indicating the use of mule bank accounts and hawala channels, officials said on Saturday (November 14, 2026).

The agency said it conducted searches based on disclosures from Sourabh Chandrakar, one of the platform's principal promoters, following his extradition from Oman. The searches, carried out over the past few days, targeted premises in Delhi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Amritsar, Bhopal and Raipur, among others, linked to the betting platform's panel operators, they said.

India supports UNGA resolution on permanent sovereignty of Palestinian people

India has voted in favour of a UN General Assembly draft resolution that reaffirms the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and the population of the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources and demands that Israel cease the exploitation and damage of these resources.

The 193-Member UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday (November 11, 2026) in favour of the resolution 'Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources' proposed by Uruguay.

Delhi Police files 450-page charge sheet in Aastha Kunj Park gangrape case

Delhi Police has filed a 450-page charge sheet against three men accused of posing as police personnel before allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl at knifepoint inside south Delhi's Aastha Kunj Park in September. The charge sheet, filed before a court on Friday (November 13, 2026), names Mohammad Asif, Hemant Singh and Mukesh Singh as accused and includes statements of 57 witnesses.

Investigators have relied on CCTV camera footage, call detail records (CDRs), forensic evidence and the victim's statement to establish the sequence of events and the alleged involvement of the accused. According to the chargesheet, the incident took place on the evening of September 21, when the girl was at the park with her 17-year-old male friend to celebrate her birthday.

Assam accident: Autopsy of 26 bodies on November 14; CM to visit injured, meet families of deceased

The postmortem of the bodies of 26 people who died in a collision between a minibus and a container truck in Assam's Kaziranga will be conducted on Saturday (November 14, 2026), Minister Ranoj Pegu said. The condition of seven of the 18 injured people remained critical, said Mr. Pegu, who was deputed by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to visit the accident site and the hospitals where the injured are receiving treatment. Mr. Sarma is scheduled to visit the families of the deceased and the injured under treatment in hospitals in Golaghat district on Saturday and take stock of the situation.

Twenty-six people died in a head-on collision between the two vehicles at Rangajan on National Highway 715 near Kaziranga National Park on Friday (Novembe 13, 2026). Many of the victims were college students who were returning from their classes. "The postmortem will be conducted at Swahid Kushal Konwar Civil Hospital in Golaghat, after which ambulances will take the bodies to their residence," Mr. Pegu told reporters.

MP adds 8.19 lakh voters since final SIR roll, electorate rises to 5.48 crore

Madhya Pradesh has recorded an addition of 8.19 lakh voters in the draft electoral roll published under the Special Summary Revision (SSR) 2027, taking the state's total electorate to nearly 5.48 crore, two years ahead of the next assembly elections, officials said.

Compared with the final Special Intensive Revision (SIR) roll published in February this year, the latest draft, released on Thursday (November 12, 2026), shows an addition of 4,38,361 women, 3,80,169 men and 33 transgender voters, according to Election Commission (EC) figures. With the latest additions, the total number of registered electors in Madhya Pradesh stands at 5,47,99,628 -- comprising 2,82,85,144 men, 2,65,13,547 women and 937 transgender persons. The State had 5,39,81,065 voters, including 2,79,04,975 males, 2,60,75,186 females and 904 transgender persons, when the SIR list was published in February.

Riots in France: How anti-Government protests spiralled out of control

Smashed windows and ransacked shops. Bloodied teenage protesters. A city hall on fire. Such scenes shocked France as rioting erupted last month during nationwide protests over high living costs and strained public services. Government officials have repeatedly blamed far-left radicals and "opportunistic delinquents," who they say took advantage of mostly peaceful demonstrations to attack symbols of State authority and capitalism across France.

But the authorities' heavy-handed response, including thousands of arrests, police beatings and curbs on marches, has added to the volatile mix of grievances fuelling an anti-Government groundswell that shows no sign of abating before next year's presidential election, Reuters found.

IIT Roorkee student death: 70 exams postponed, to be held on November 22

Following the death of a 20-year-old student, allegedly by suicide, at IIT Roorkee, the institute has postponed 70 examinations to November 22, officials said on Saturday (November 14, 2026). The exams were originally scheduled to be held on Friday (November 13, 2026).

The deceased, Ayush Rajauria, was a second-year student of the institute's BS-MS programme in Mathematics and Computing and hailed from Raj Nagar Extension in Ghaziabad. According to police, the incident came to light around midnight on Thursday after Kuldeep Singh Negi, a security officer at IIT Roorkee, informed the Kotwali Roorkee police that a student was found dead in room number BS 10 on the second floor of Govind Bhawan hostel.

Rahul Gandhi promises social security, insurance cover for gig workers in Telangana

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi announced a series of social security measures for gig workers in Telangana, including accident insurance of ₹5 lakh, health insurance of ₹10 lakh, dedicated Wi-Fi-enabled rest zones and a mechanism to ensure that 1% of every transaction is credited towards their social security.

Microsoft says services fully restored after hourslong global outage

Microsoft said on Saturday (November 14, 2026) that services were fully restored after a massive outage that lasted for hours. "We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions," the company said in an update on X.

Users reported that Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot, were interrupted. Downdetector, an online tracker, said it received outage reports from users in more than 70 countries and territories. The outage affected governments, courts, healthcare services, businesses, airlines and banks in many places. Governments including those of Japan, Singapore and Australia reported that the hours-long episode had impacted some of their operations.