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Punjab's Anti-Gangster Task Force has secured the deportation of Gurwinder alias Afridi, a key member of the Doni Bal-Prabh Dassuwal gang, from Ethiopia after a 10-month international manhunt, DGP Gaurav Yadav announced. The operation, named Operation SHAHID, was run by the AGTF with the Counter Intelligence wing's fugitive-tracking cell OFTEC and central agencies, tracking the accused across Asia, South America and Africa. Police allege he was directing targeted killings and extortion-related firings in Punjab from abroad; a reward of Rs 5 lakh had been announced for information leading to his arrest.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Azerbaijan's Karabakh region on Sunday for Victory Day, was welcomed arm in arm by President Ilham Aliyev at Fuzuli airport, and the two leaders used a joint press conference to declare their alliance unbreakable — a public show of unity after a rare open rift over school headscarf rules, Azerbaijan's ties with Israel and Aliyev skipping a Turkic summit in Ankara.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Sunday, November 8, that French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot had accepted his proposal to put recent cyber attacks suspected to have come from pro-Russian groups on the agenda of the G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Paris on Monday and Tuesday — a day after Tajani revealed his own personal data had been published on the dark web.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Ten people from one family, including five children, died on Saturday evening after their car plunged into a lake in Barra Mansa, in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, during heavy rain. About 30 firefighters and two divers recovered the victims from the submerged vehicle; the Rio state government said all ten were already dead when rescuers reached them, and police have opened an investigation.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi gave Tehran's answer on Sunday, November 8, to US President Donald Trump's CNN interview — the interview in which Trump called new US strikes on Iran 'highly unlikely' if talks progress, while warning that 38 Iranian bridges were in American sights. Writing on X after the Republican Party's midterm election setbacks, Araghchi said: 'American voters have made their choice. Time for the White House to make its own. Our 2-day proposal stands: meet the requirements, including end to war on all fronts, and you will see results. Or choose war, and see our alert and battle-hardened Warriors rain down hell.' The two-day proposal is Tehran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway carrying about a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas in peacetime — within two days of Washington meeting its conditions, which include lifting the US naval blockade of Iranian ports and releasing frozen Iranian funds. No agreement has been announced, and Araghchi separately cautioned that it could take time for mediators to resume their work after the midterms.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
The Defence Minister paid homage to fallen soldiers at the high-altitude memorial in Sikkim, likened troops to Diwali lamps that silently fight darkness, and visited the Baba Harbhajan Singh Memorial — completing the Diwali programme he had announced a day earlier, after meeting troops at Bagdogra and Sukna on Saturday.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Former army chief Gadi Eisenkot, 66, leader of the Yashar party, formally received the mandate to form Israel's next government from President Isaac Herzog at a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Sunday, November 8 — the step Herzog had announced his intention to take on Saturday evening. Eisenkot now has 28 days under Basic Law: The Government to assemble the 61 seats needed for a majority in the 120-member Knesset, with a possible extension of up to 14 days. Accepting the mandate, he described Israel as being in a 'challenging and fateful state of emergency' and at an 'extremely dangerous point', pledged a national emergency government, and appealed directly to lawmakers from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud and from Religious Zionism to support a government under his leadership. His own bloc holds only 48 seats, so every route to 61 carries a price.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Days after the Republican midterm losses — and two days after Awaaz Punjab reported Stephen Miller's promotion to chief of staff — the White House told the BBC on Sunday there will be no easing of mass deportations, DHS and ICE say they have had no order to slow down, and agency sources say ICE has been told to aim for about 19,000 arrests a week, up from a 2,000-a-day target.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Giana Fortson, 23, of Mays Landing died at the scene after her 2008 Toyota Scion lost control on westbound Route 40 near Strand Avenue at about 6:18 a.m. on Sunday, rear-ended a 2025 Nissan Versa and struck a tree, Hamilton Township police said. The other driver was not injured. Route 40 was closed for about four hours as police, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office and state crews investigated, and witnesses are being asked to call Sgt. James Jacobi.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Chicago police say Coleman Jeffrey, arrested Friday in Greater Grand Crossing, allegedly shot Mark Hurn, 54, in the chest, abdomen and legs on September 27 after a family argument a witness said was about the care of Jeffrey's mother; he was due in court Sunday at the Leighton Courthouse.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
A passing driver spotted the 29-year-old in the desert east of Bullhead City shortly before noon on Saturday. By 4:30 p.m., Las Vegas Metro officers had found his stolen car at a casino across the river in Laughlin, Nevada, and arrested Jacob Dylan Middlebrook, 35, and Layne Justine McIntosh, 36, Bullhead City police say.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Iraq's confrontation over weapons outside state control sharpened sharply on Sunday, November 8. Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi warned that his government would confront any weapons outside state control that threaten security or intimidate citizens 'through the full force of the law', and US Special Envoy Tom Barrack backed him publicly the same day, saying 'militia influence has no place in Iraq's institutions'. The warning landed a day after al-Zaidi cancelled three leases at Mosul International Airport held by companies linked to armed groups and ordered them reassigned to international firms — a move Kataib Hezbollah, the Iran-aligned faction at the centre of the standoff, answered by denying it controls airport contracts and demanding an investigation into the finances of the prime minister's brother. Hours earlier, another faction, Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, had publicly rejected the foreign minister's claim that it had agreed to weapons controls, exposing a widening gap between what Baghdad says it has agreed and what the factions say they have signed.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a notification on Sunday, November 8, appointing career diplomat Salahuddin Noman Chowdhury as the country's 29th foreign secretary, with immediate effect, and he took charge the same day at a farewell-and-welcome ceremony in Dhaka. He replaces Asad Alam Siam, foreign secretary since June 20, 2025, who is posted to New Delhi as Bangladesh's High Commissioner to India — a move India formally approved in September and which, according to earlier reporting, is scheduled to take effect on November 16. Noman, a 1998-batch foreign service officer, returns to headquarters from New York, where he served as Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Winston-Salem police say officers heard gunshots at about 9:45 p.m. Saturday on the Winston-Salem State University campus: a 19-year-old man died and a 22-year-old woman was treated and released in the first shooting, and Ziyaire Spinks, 20, is held without bond on murder and firearm-on-educational-property charges. A second shooting the same night is still under investigation, the homecoming programme was cancelled, and the campus lockdown has been lifted.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
The Nigerian Army says troops of the 135 Special Forces Battalion rescued 119 civilians — 69 men, 35 women and 15 children — after terrorists blocked a Borno highway and began abducting travellers, and recovered eight seized vehicles.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation disposed of 2,36,021 public grievances during its month-long Special Campaign 6 in October 2026, against a target of 2,05,000, the Ministry of Labour and Employment said in a release dated November 7.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
The Manipur government on Sunday released Rs 5.88 crore from the State Emergency Fund as special festive assistance for 58,863 internally displaced persons still living in relief camps across 10 districts, a senior Chief Minister's Office official said.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
The BJP in Punjab marked Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas on Sunday by lighting special lamps at its Chandigarh state office in memory of young people who lost their lives to drug abuse. State president Kewal Singh Dhillon lit the lamps, including one dedicated to youths who fell victim to addiction, and the party renewed its pledge to fight the drug menace — a signal that drugs will be a defining issue in its campaign against the AAP government ahead of the 2027 assembly elections.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Arguments in Nielsen v. Watanabe on November 9 will decide whether what is left of the 1971 Bivens remedy survives — the only route, experts say, for suing a federal officer directly for violating the Constitution. The case itself is a Honolulu prisoner's $3 million claim over denied medical care; the answer will reach every ICE and Border Patrol encounter in the country.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Former IMF chief economist and Harvard professor Gita Gopinath has warned that the global artificial intelligence investment boom — with nearly $1 trillion projected to be spent in 2026 alone — is heading for a valuation correction, because competing firms may struggle to earn enough profit to recover the money. A large correction, she said, could push US growth to zero or below, IANS reported on Sunday from her remarks on Raj Shamani's podcast.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday flagged off four new Vande Bharat Express trains from Varanasi — on the Banaras–Khajuraho, Lucknow–Saharanpur, Firozpur–Delhi and Ernakulam–Bengaluru routes — taking the number of operational Vande Bharat trains in the country past 160, the Prime Minister's Office said. The Banaras–Khajuraho service alone will save about 2 hours 40 minutes over the special trains now running on the route.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Cranbury Township in Middlesex County disclosed on Friday, November 6, that a fraudulent wire transfer on September 28 stole approximately $26 million meant to buy property for the township's affordable-housing obligations. A multi-agency task force led by Cranbury police and the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office has frozen nearly $17.3 million in assets. The disclosure came three days after the November 3 election and more than five weeks after the theft, and the Township Committee meets in public for the first time since the announcement on Monday night, November 9.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
A week after Judge Ana Reyes ordered an ethics probe at the October 30 hearing, she has named former DC U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu as the proposed special master — with written answers due Friday, November 13, and the East Potomac course and park set to close on November 15. No finding of wrongdoing has been made.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
US President Donald Trump told CNN in a phone interview on Sunday that he is highly unlikely to order fresh attacks on Iran as long as talks to end the conflict progress and Tehran signs what he called a very strong agreement. In the same interview he warned that Washington has identified Iranian infrastructure targets, including 38 bridges he claimed the US could knock down 'in literally one hour'.
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