13th November 2025 Daily Current Affairs

🇮🇳 India – Key Developments

The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, is seeing intensified calls for a “just transition” mechanism to help developing nations shift to low-carbon economies under equitable terms.

Several schools in India are scheduled to be closed or operate in hybrid mode on 13 November, due to bye-elections in some states and air-quality/GRAP-III conditions in the Delhi-NCR region.

In Pune, the local metro authority announced it will appoint an expert agency for designing a feeder bus system (station-level circulators/short loops) to enhance public transport connectivity.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over the investigation into the explosion near the Red Fort in New Delhi, observed on 10 November.

🌍 International Developments

At COP30, Brazil launched the Belém Health Action Plan to integrate climate change and public-health policy, with special focus on children’s vulnerability and Indigenous communities.

In China, tighter regulations on AI-generated content have been announced amid concerns around misinformation and public confusion.

🔍 Why These Matter

The COP30 focus on just transition underlines the crucial challenge for climate justice: developing countries face large decarbonisation costs, and mechanisms to support them are politically contested.

School closures/hybrid mode reflect how governance (polling, air-quality) and public health intersect with education policy.

Upgrading feeder systems in cities like Pune signals the push for sustainable urban mobility and public-transport integration.

The NIA takeover of the Delhi blast investigation shows the priority India places on internal security and counter-terror capacity.

China’s regulation of AI-content points to global trends where digital governance and information integrity are rising policy fronts.