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Awaaz Punjab is an independent digital news platform publishing original, source-verified reporting in English, Punjabi and Hindi. Every story below is published with its sources named and dated, and every article is available in all three languages. Our newsroom covers Punjab first — its politics, districts and the road to the 2027 assembly election — along with India, the Punjabi diaspora in the USA and Canada, and world affairs that touch Punjab's people, from the Gulf to North America.
Counter Intelligence Amritsar has busted a cross-border narcotics network, apprehending four accused including one juvenile and recovering 36 kg of heroin, Punjab Police said. Police allege the accused received consignments near the border in the Lopoke area on a foreign-based handler's instructions; an FIR is registered at SSOC Amritsar.
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A Bench led by CJI Surya Kant sought replies in the ED's appeal against the Delhi High Court's May 29 judgment and listed the matter after four weeks — a new hearing stage in a challenge first filed in October.
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The Bar Council told a Bench led by CJI Surya Kant that its General Council resolved on November 5 to scrap the age caps for 3-year and 5-year law courses; the Rishabh Duggal plea was disposed of as infructuous.
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The CBI on Friday arrested Ajayveer Singh, a Senior Section Engineer with West Central Railway posted at New Katni Junction in Madhya Pradesh, after he was allegedly caught red-handed accepting Rs 45,000 from a labour contractor. A Jabalpur court remanded him to judicial custody until November 12, reports said.
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The IMD’s extended-range cyclogenesis outlook points to a circulation over the southeast Bay of Bengal around November 11 and a low-pressure area around November 13 — with only a 1 to 33 per cent chance of it becoming a depression by November 15, and no cyclone warning in force.
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A Bench led by CJI Surya Kant declined to frame guidelines that would curtail the Prime Minister's and Chief Ministers' discretion in forming their Cabinets, leaving the Manoj Narula position unchanged.
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Joint teams of the Bijapur district police, CRPF and CoBRA recovered 711 barrel grenade launcher (BGL) shells near the Karregutta hills and a second underground cache of 455 electric and 500 non-electric detonators near Pujarikanker village during intelligence-based searches on Thursday, officials said, warning the public to stay away from the hill area because of the risk of hidden explosives.
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State laboratory tests on 63 petrol samples from seven districts found ethanol above the 20 per cent limit in 11 of 14 detailed results, Karnataka Food and Legal Metrology Minister Rizwan Arshad said on Friday — demanding pump-level disclosure across India, action against oil companies and a compensation fund for vehicle owners.
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The maiden short course at the Regional Maritime Security Centre of Excellence (RMSCE), set up jointly by India and the United Kingdom under the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative, concluded at the National Maritime Foundation in New Delhi on November 5, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday.
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A 10-year data study put the peak rush on Dhanteras and three days before Chhath, Vaishnaw said, with round-the-clock war rooms, 700-plus AI cameras and standby rakes at Shakur Basti.
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RBI data released on Friday showed reserves at $717.056 billion in the week ended October 30, as foreign currency assets and gold holdings both declined from the record $785.706 billion peak of early September.
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The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said on Friday, November 6 that its air defences intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi group towards Saudi Arabia's Najran region, and later the same day intercepted and destroyed a drone in Makkah province. Coalition spokesman Turki Al-Maliki said debris fell after the Najran interceptions and damage was being assessed; Saudi Civil Defense said the threat to Najran had been neutralised. No casualties were reported in the Reuters and QNA wire reports.
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The fifth edition of the India-US HADR exercise, which Awaaz Punjab reported opening on November 2, ran from October 31 to November 5 and closed in Visakhapatnam with staff and tabletop exercises on joint amphibious disaster response, cyber and medical coordination, the Ministry of Defence said.
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ASEAN ambassadors and high commissioners were hosted at the Information Fusion Centre-Indian Ocean Region for a briefing on maritime domain awareness, as part of the ASEAN-India Year of Maritime Cooperation, the MEA said.
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Two days after quitting the breakaway SAD (Punar Surjit) faction, former MP Prof Prem Singh Chandumajra rejoined the Sukhbir Singh Badal-led Shiromani Akali Dal in Patiala on Friday. Badal, who visited his residence to welcome him, appointed Chandumajra's son Harinderpal as in-charge of the Sanaur Assembly seat and claimed the rebel faction had ceased to exist.
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The PMA and ILWU Local 26 extended their contract on November 4 to midnight Pacific on Friday, November 6 — the second extension in a week after the first, reported October 31 — with talks continuing today under federal mediators. The 250 watchmen work at six terminals handling about 85% of Long Beach cargo and 33% of Los Angeles cargo, and the PMA warns other ILWU members would honour their picket line.
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At the Reserve Police Lines in Dehradun on November 6, Uttarakhand Police became the 16th force in India to receive the President's Police Colour in its 25th year — and Home Minister Amit Shah used the ceremony to assure that accused in FIRs registered after May 2027 will be convicted within three years.
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Clean-air efforts during Diwali cannot rest on court orders and police alone, the Supreme Court said on Friday, urging Delhi authorities to involve local councillors so a cracker-free celebration becomes a people's movement.
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Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said the ED searches linked to Moga MLA Amandeep Kaur Arora ended after nearly 48 hours with nothing recovered — AAP's claim, which the ED has not confirmed — and alleged the BJP is misusing central agencies as elections approach, an allegation the BJP had not answered in the reports.
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Two people died when their vehicle was swept away in flooding on the French island of Corsica, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Friday, Reuters reported — after a storm that began on Wednesday afternoon dropped as much as 350 mm (13.8 inches) of rain, left a 40-year-old woman rescued and a firefighter in hospital with hypothermia, and kept Meteo France flood warnings in force for Corsica and southern France.
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The Bhagwant Mann government will provide free online coaching for the UPSC Civil Services and Punjab Civil Services examinations to 1,000 selected college students — 750 from government colleges and 250 from private colleges — under the PACE programme, an official statement said on 5 November. The selection process and start date have not yet been announced.
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CAQM invokes Stage III across Delhi-NCR as a precaution with the city AQI at 382 — older petrol and diesel cars barred, non-essential construction banned, two days before Diwali.
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The Election Commission on November 6 told the chief electoral officers of Delhi, Maharashtra, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Telangana and Nagaland to give voters marked Absent/Shifted/Dead/Duplicate — whose enumeration forms never came back — one more opportunity to enter the final roll, with booth-wise lists displayed afresh and forms delivered via BLOs, WhatsApp, e-mail and SMS.
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A fire broke out in four coaches of Train No. 12508, the Amritsar–New Jalpaiguri Karmabhoomi Express, near Sarai Banjara station between Sirhind and Rajpura on Friday. Northern Railway said the train's safety system stopped it in time, passengers were evacuated and no injuries or casualties have been reported.
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