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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.
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Salazar leads Rodriguez 124,528 to 123,438 — 0.44 percent — after Friday's canvass in Miami-Dade. Florida law orders a machine recount by November 12, but first a federal judge must decide whether Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia, who called Salazar the winner on election night and whose son-in-law represents Salazar in the recount, can sit on the board that runs it. All claims are allegations; Garcia denies she cannot be impartial.
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Los Angeles fire officials say 10 people were assessed and eight were transported to hospitals after a car mounted the sidewalk at 4040 W. Washington Boulevard in Arlington Heights at 12:51 p.m. on Saturday, November 7. FOX 11 reported a 9-year-old was in serious condition; KTLA reported the driver, a man believed to be about 60, appeared to stay at the scene, and investigators have not yet determined the cause.
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Police say a northbound Mercedes left South Las Vegas Boulevard at about 4:51 a.m. on Saturday, November 7, struck a 29-year-old man standing on the sidewalk ramp at the South 4th Street crosswalk, and continued along the sidewalk into a palm tree. The pedestrian is at UMC Trauma with life-threatening injuries; the driver was treated for moderate injuries and booked after officers saw signs of impairment — hours before the valley's Dusk2Dawn volunteers chalked outlines for 172 pedestrian deaths on nine streets.
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The FAA's emergency order — 4 percent of domestic flights cut now at 40 major airports, rising to 10 percent by November 14 — has removed more than 2,500 flights this weekend as 13,000 unpaid air traffic controllers work through the longest government shutdown in US history. International flights are exempt; the risk for diaspora travellers is the domestic connection.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked L.K. Advani's 99th birthday on Sunday with a detailed tribute article tracing the veteran leader's journey from Partition to the building of the BJP, as senior leaders across the party greeted the former Deputy Prime Minister on entering his 100th year.
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Union Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy said in Panaji on Friday that India, which now produces about 168 million tonnes of steel a year, is targeting 300 million tonnes by 2030 and 500 million tonnes by 2047, with a push to raise iron ore output and put Goa's old mining dumps to use.
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Delhi-NCR woke up to 'very poor' air on Diwali morning, November 8, with an overall AQI of 384 and 11 monitoring stations above 400 in the severe category, CPCB data cited by IANS showed — even as GRAP Stage-III curbs stayed in force and only green crackers were permitted in fixed windows.
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President Donald Trump said on Saturday he is ordering the US Justice Department to look into Democrats he accused of threatening Attorney General Todd Blanche, other officials and Republican donors with impeachment and punishment — allegations he called 'extortion at the highest level' and a 'criminal act'. Reuters and CNBC reported he provided no evidence, did not identify the 'threatening letters' he cited, and named only one Democrat, Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan. The Justice Department had not announced a formal investigation.
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US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday, November 7 that a US military aircraft fired precision munitions at the stern of the St Kitts-flagged cargo vessel M/V Huda in the Gulf of Oman, disabling it after its civilian crew ignored repeated warnings and tried several times to violate the US naval blockade of Iran.
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At the national mining ministers' conference in Goa, Punjab Mines Minister Barinder Kumar Goyal asked the Centre to restore equal weightage for minor-mineral reforms under SASCI 2026-27 or frame alternative criteria for states like Punjab, which has no operational major-mineral site. Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy assured that the Mines Ministry would examine Punjab's representation, with a follow-up meeting to be held in Chandigarh. Goyal also pressed for early approvals for potash exploration blocks; the revenue and reform figures he cited are his own claims.
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The SIR debate-challenge exchange sharpened on Saturday as Union Minister Pralhad Joshi accused Rahul Gandhi of circulating a cropped video of Amit Shah and urged him to argue the issue in Parliament — a day after Gandhi renewed his 'any platform, any time' open-debate challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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The Air Force's Software Development Institute signed a Memorandum of Agreement with IIT Madras and the IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation on November 6 for the joint design and development of a digital secure communication system for airborne applications, the Defence Ministry said.
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A Women and Child Development Ministry review on November 6, ahead of the campaign's two-year observance on November 27, put women aged 20–24 who were married before 18 at 20.1% in NFHS-6 (2023–24), down from 23.3% in NFHS-5 — while the campaign portal now lists 71,882 Child Marriage Prohibition Officers and 4,536 recorded incidents.
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The Florida Highway Patrol says a single sedan veered onto the right shoulder of southbound I-95 near International Golf Parkway at about 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, stopped in the tree line and caught fire. The driver has not yet been identified, two right lanes were blocked, and the investigation is open.
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India produced 12.85 lakh tonnes of sugar by November 5 in the 2026-27 season, against 3.20 lakh tonnes a year earlier, as crushing began early — led by Maharashtra's 136 mills — and opening stocks of about 36 lakh tonnes keep festive-season supply comfortable, the industry body ISMA said.
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An MBBS student of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital (JLNMCH) in Bhagalpur has died during treatment in Patna after a car allegedly driven by an intoxicated postgraduate medical student hit his scooter near Tilka Manjhi Chowk, reports said. The accused PG student has been arrested and sent to jail, and JLNMCH students have demanded his rustication.
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Alyssa Hansen, 19, walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office at 5:31 p.m. on Friday and Tyler Colegrove, 19, followed at 10:31 p.m. — closing the manhunt that began when deputies named them on November 4 as the suspects in the November 3 shooting that struck a house on Harwill Court in Myrtletown, near Eureka. Colegrove is wanted on an attempted-murder charge; both face a conspiracy charge. The allegations have not been tested in court.
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Health officials in Kerala's Kozhikode district confirmed two more shigellosis cases among students of Meppayil Senior Basic School in Vadakara, as a district medical team inspected the school, sent food and water samples for testing and chlorinated wells in 290 nearby houses.
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IndiGo flight 6E 451 from Bengaluru to Lucknow turned back on Saturday evening, November 7, after a handwritten hijack threat was found in an aircraft toilet about 30 minutes after take-off. Kempegowda International Airport declared a full emergency at Terminal 1, the aircraft was isolated and searched, and an investigation is under way to trace who wrote the note.
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The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser and DPIIT launched the API integration on November 6, so DPIIT-recognised startups can discover scientific and testing facilities through the Startup India Portal itself — though each host institution will still approve access requests on its own terms.
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Justice Manoj Jain's interim order of November 6 directs the removal of six AI-generated posts — five on X and one on Facebook — that depicted the Delhi Chief Minister as a liquor vendor, hawker and delivery agent, in a defamation suit she filed against the Aam Aadmi Party.
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Malaysia's King Sultan Ibrahim said on Saturday his conditional pardon order letting ex-PM Najib Razak serve his remaining sentence at home was “clear, explicit and without any ambiguity” — a day after the Attorney-General's Chambers suspended the transfer — and warned that questioning it, with all conditions fulfilled, could amount to defying his decree.
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Hundreds of workers rallied in Jakarta on Saturday in support of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto amid allegations that police illegally wiretapped him, while hundreds of women marched in the same capital against his handling of months of forest fires, his costly free-meal programme and a tax on women's sanitary products, Reuters reported.
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