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Two men and two women — a mother and her son from Shangshak village and two siblings from Tashar village — died on the spot when gunmen fired on a Swift car and a Bolero pick-up near New Heaven at around 1 pm on Friday, police said. Police have not officially named any group; reports citing a police source allege suspected Kuki militants, an allegation a Kuki organisation in Ukhrul has denied.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
India's total exports of goods and services jumped 29.9 per cent year-on-year to a record $89.99 billion in October 2026, led by merchandise exports surging 45.06 per cent to an all-time monthly high of $49.47 billion, Commerce Ministry data released on Friday showed.
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Two collisions within about 15 minutes inside the Nariman Point–Worli tunnel of Mumbai's Coastal Road early on Friday involved six vehicles, officials and reports said. A speeding Mahindra SUV allegedly rammed vehicles left stationary by the first crash and one vehicle caught fire. No casualties were reported, and the tunnel reopened shortly after 4 am.
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The Singapore-flagged Strategic Alliance hit the raised span at about 1:15 p.m. on Thursday. No one was hurt, but the Route 73 Delaware River crossing was still shut on Thursday night with no firm reopening time.
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Delhi Police said a group allegedly robbed 20-year-old Jay Kumar and his friends of five mobile phones and cash near Burari Pusta Ground on November 6, and stabbed Kumar when he refused to hand over his phone. Four juveniles aged 16-17 have been apprehended and sent to an observation home.
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San Luis Obispo County confirmed the death on November 10. Five infections were lab-confirmed and 10 more are suspect after October visits to Brookshire Farms, and three children developed kidney failure — yet testing at the farm never found the bacteria, and the investigation has now closed.
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The federal government announced on Thursday night that petrol will sell at Rs332 a litre and high-speed diesel at Rs360 from Friday, November 13, under Pakistan's new daily pricing mechanism — the eighth consecutive cut, with petrol now about Rs46 a litre cheaper than two weeks ago, according to Pakistani media reports of the OGRA notification.
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Carlos Arevalo, 58, was arrested at a Flowery Branch home on Thursday night on charges of terroristic threats and disruption of a school, after a threat called in to 911 locked down Gainesville High School in Hall County. K-9 teams from three counties swept the campus, found no explosives, and police say the man had no connection to the school and was "simply upset at the government."
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards said early on Friday that their aerospace force destroyed a US early-warning radar in Bahrain, calling it retaliation for an enemy air attack on a telecommunications tower in Sirik in southern Iran on Thursday. The claim, the first of its kind against US assets in a Gulf country since early September according to Reuters, had not been independently verified and neither Washington nor Manama had commented.
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The National Human Rights Commission has taken cognisance of a complaint alleging inadequate recognition of Veer Baal Diwas in schools and asked the Union Education Ministry for an Action Taken Report within 14 days, including whether any official order designates November 14 as Children's Day.
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The Trump administration has told Tokyo it wants more than ¥3 trillion (about $19 billion) over five years from fiscal 2027 for hosting US forces — roughly triple the current ¥211 billion a year — while Japan is considering about ¥1.5 trillion, sources familiar with the talks told Kyodo. The next round could come as early as next week, with both sides aiming for a deal by the end of the year.
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Arrest warrants allege an exchange of gunfire outside a Ward Street home on November 11, with shots fired into a house where two people were inside. Gevin Scott Meshaw, 18, Jaquan Davion Willis, 19, Anthony Vining and Casey Latrail Wilder all face charges, are held without bond, and had public defenders appointed on Thursday — and the records reported so far do not say whether anyone was hurt.
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India will organise sector-specific and multi-sector trade exhibitions in international markets, particularly FTA partner countries, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal announced at the 45th IITF inauguration, saying exports reached $570 billion in April-October and the $1 trillion target for this financial year is on track.
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City Council passed Council President Kenyatta Johnson's resolution on Thursday, November 12, authorizing Committee of the Whole hearings into Sheriff Rochelle Bilal's office — its finances, staffing and sheriff sales. Johnson says the goal is to “restore public confidence” and reform the office, not eliminate it, as a judge's contempt ruling over the same $20 million remains pending.
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Russia said on Thursday it had carried out a massive overnight strike on military factories across Ukraine, while in Kyiv a drone struck a nine-storey residential building in the Solomyanskyi district — Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported one woman killed and five people injured, and later Ukrainian reporting put the building's toll at a 44-year-old woman killed and seven residents injured.
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A Rapido passenger, Harshad Purbia, was killed when a car struck the motorcycle near Shilaj Circle in Ahmedabad at about 7 a.m. on November 11 and the driver fled. Bopal police traced the vehicle through CCTV footage and its number plate and arrested Raghavendra Kushwaha, reported to be Bapunagar MLA Dineshsinh Kushwaha's nephew, within 15 to 17 hours; he was later released on bail after questioning.
Published 2026-11-12 · Awaaz Punjab
Punjab Dairy Development Board director Sukhdeep Singh Chhina resigned from all AAP posts and his primary membership, and former Rajasansi in-charge Rajbir Singh and SC wing coordinator Gurdev Singh Joban Jhanjoti also quit, a day after Sonia Mann got the Rajasansi ticket in AAP's second list. Chhina's letter to state president Aman Arora gives no reason; reports link the exits to the ticket, a link Awaaz Punjab reports as reporting, not as his stated reason.
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed an antitrust lawsuit in Ingham County Circuit Court on Thursday against the Hoffmann Family of Companies, alleging it illegally monopolized Mackinac Island ferry service and mainland parking after buying Shepler's in 2022 and the Mackinac Island Ferry Company in 2024. The state says one owner now controls every island ferry dock and about 80% of long-term parking at Mackinaw City and St. Ignace, and it seeks a forced sale, restitution, penalties and treble damages. Hoffmann Marine denies violating antitrust law. The allegations have not been proven in court.
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A large quantity of gold was stolen from a Tanishq showroom at Palanganatham on Madurai's Bypass Road late on Wednesday night. Police said a suspect was seen on CCTV entering through a lift passage, the City Police Commissioner said about 30 per cent of the stock had been taken, and the exact quantity and value are yet to be officially confirmed, with published estimates varying widely.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
David Mendez, 55, of Cranston was arrested without incident at about 9:30 a.m. Thursday in New Bedford, Massachusetts, six days after a 46-year-old man was stabbed repeatedly in a black Maserati on Park Avenue — Cranston police say a witness description and a partial plate, run through the department's Flock camera system, produced a suspect within minutes, and Rhode Island and Massachusetts fugitive teams and the U.S. Marshals tracked him down
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India said on Friday it desires a 'positive, constructive and forward-looking' relationship with Bangladesh and that the postponed fifth consular dialogue will be rescheduled, with MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal calling Sheikh Hasina's extradition a legal matter that will be dealt with accordingly.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
A Congress block president and another man were killed and two others seriously injured when their car collided head-on with an SUV near Lachhora village in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district on Thursday night, police said on Friday. The group was returning to Burhanpur after a Diwali Milan programme when the crash happened on the Amravati State Highway.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
A new filing after the October judgment: Yes Bank has invoked Article 137 to seek a review of the Supreme Court order that set aside the Rs 8,415-crore AT-1 bond write-off, days after bondholders' trustee moved a contempt petition in the same case.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
The toll in Friday's head-on collision at Rangajan near the Hathikuli Tea Estate rose in stages from 23 to 26 as critically injured passengers succumbed, hospital officials said. Twenty people are injured, 14 of the dead have been identified, a dashcam video shows the minibus jumping its lane, and the vehicle had repeated overspeeding challans, including a Rs 4,000 fine for 102 kmph in Jorhat.
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