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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressed the party's Insaaf Rally at Fagguwala village in Sangrur on Wednesday, formally launching the Congress campaign for the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections from Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's home district. Gandhi challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a face-to-face debate with a judge of Modi's own choosing, attacked the AAP government over drugs and law and order, and paused his prepared speech after spotting Sidhu Moosewala's father Balkaur Singh in the crowd. AAP minister Harpal Cheema dismissed the visit the same day; all party claims are attributed and labelled.
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NSE International Exchange (NSEIX) in Gujarat's GIFT City has extended its market operations to 23 hours and 30 minutes a day, the exchange said on Tuesday (November 3, 2026), with the longer schedule in effect from November 2. Trading now runs from 3:15 am IST to 2:45 am IST the following day, spanning Asian, European and American market hours, Reuters reported. For GIFT Nifty — the NSE IFSC Nifty 50 index futures closely watched as an early indicator of the domestic market's opening trend — the morning session now starts at 5:15 am IST, an hour and 15 minutes earlier than before, IANS reported.
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Two Indian Army personnel — the driver and co-driver, the only two people aboard — were killed on Wednesday (November 4, 2026) when their heavy-duty vehicle skidded off the Kargil–Leh National Highway (NH-01) near Namika La Pass in Ladakh's Kargil district and plunged into a gorge nearly 600 feet deep, officials said, in reports carried by PTI and GNS.
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Foreign airlines operating from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) have recommended moving international flights to 14 destinations to Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) while Terminal 1 is rebuilt, IANS reported on Wednesday (November 4, 2026), citing sources. From March 28, 2027, CSMIA will temporarily suspend slots for those 14 destinations so each route operates from one airport in the Mumbai region instead of being split between two.
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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (November 4, 2026) issued notice on a public interest litigation seeking a time-bound and reasoned decision by the Centre on the safety of Ranitidine, a widely used acidity medicine, amid concerns over the possible presence of NDMA, an impurity classified as a probable human carcinogen. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Justice Sanjay Sharma sought responses from the Health Ministry, CDSCO, DTAB and ICMR.
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Wednesday (November 4, 2026) relaxed its Know Your Client (KYC) rules for individual Persons Resident Outside India (PROIs) — Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) and foreign nationals — dropping the requirement that a client must physically be in India during digital onboarding. Under a circular dated November 4, intermediaries may accept digital submission of KYC information and documents from eligible clients located in Financial Action Task Force (FATF)-compliant countries, SEBI said. The revised provisions take effect 30 days later, on December 3, 2026, and also make KYC records portable across intermediaries.
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday modified its order of a day earlier and allowed the family of 35-year-old Daljit Singh of Bhamme Kalan in Mansa district to cremate him in his native village on Thursday, in the presence of immediate family only, after a fresh post-mortem was completed at PGIMER, Chandigarh. The change came on an application by his mother and wife, who said Tuesday's Chandigarh-only cremation order had been passed without making them parties to the case.
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Raj Singh alias Raju, arrested as the main shooter in the October 28 firing at Gurdwara Manji Sahib in Rajoana Kalan village near Jagraon, died in Ludhiana Rural Police custody on Monday night after his health suddenly deteriorated, police said. His family has alleged — as an allegation, not an established fact — that he died because of torture in custody; police deny any torture, say he was medically examined and given his medicines, and say the cause of death will be known only from the post-mortem, to be conducted before a magistrate with videography.
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South Africans voted on Wednesday for 10,526 council seats across 257 municipalities, with 136,790 candidates in the field and polls suggesting the ANC — below 50 per cent in local elections for the first time in 2021 and stripped of its parliamentary majority in 2024 — could fall below 40 per cent, even below a third. Johannesburg and Durban are the big prizes, results are due Sunday, and coalition bargaining will decide who runs the cities.
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has cancelled the registrations of eight investment advisers, including Karvy Investment Advisory Services Ltd and IDFC Alternatives Ltd, with immediate effect, the regulator said in an order issued from Mumbai on Wednesday (November 4, 2026). All eight firms had failed to pay the mandatory renewal fees required under the SEBI (Investment Advisers) Regulations, 2013, so their certificates of registration had ceased to be in force, IANS reported.
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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice on a parents' PIL seeking permission for Class 12 students to use basic, non-programmable calculators in board examinations, and gave CBSE, NCERT, the Centre and PARAKH six weeks to reply, ANI and LiveLaw reported. The petition, filed by Pitampura resident Vishal Dua for himself and 10 other parents, points out that CBSE's own Curriculum Committee approved calculators in Class 12 Accountancy in November 2024, but the proposal was never notified. The court expressed no view on the merits — calculators are not yet allowed in the exams.
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Rescuers on Wednesday recovered the bodies of two more trekkers from the group of eight that went missing six days ago on the Kedartal route in Uttarkashi, officials said, The Hindu reported — a new development that takes the toll to four, after the first two bodies were recovered on Tuesday, PTI reported. Four of the eight — seven trekkers and a local guide caught in the October 29 avalanche — remain unaccounted for, and joint SDRF, NDRF and NIM teams are continuing the search in snow and adverse weather, ANI reported.
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The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Wednesday (November 4, 2026) released the detailed publications of the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) 2024-25 — Volume I and the Summary Results of the Factory Sector, along with unit-level data — the Press Information Bureau (PIB) said in a release issued at 4 pm. The manufacturing corporate sector, which accounts for more than 89 per cent of total gross value added (GVA), registered GVA growth of 9.28 per cent over the previous year, ANI reported. The detailed tables show how concentrated India's registered factory sector is: factories with plant and machinery worth Rs 10 crore or more were only 15.84 per cent of factories in operation, yet they held 87.42 per cent of fixed capital, engaged 59.66 per cent of all persons and produced 76.82 per cent of gross output and 78.07 per cent of net value added, the PIB release said. Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh together contributed more than 54 per cent of manufacturing GVA.
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Defending champions India beat South Korea 8-1 in the semi-final at Mohali on Wednesday, with braces from Shilanand Lakra and Dilpreet Singh, to reach a record-extending seventh Asian Champions Trophy final, where they will face Japan on Thursday.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday, November 4 dismissed applications by 21 Karnataka court employees who wanted the Bhumika Trust relaxation extended to them, with Chief Justice Surya Kant observing that judicial service cannot be made a promotional post for other cadres, Bar and Bench and LiveLaw reported. The bench of CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana said there was no reason to modify its judgment, leaving the mandatory practice requirement in place for in-service court staff seeking entry-level judicial service posts.
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Ravi Uppal, 46, a co-promoter of the Mahadev Online Book betting platform and a principal accused in the case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has been arrested in Dubai, officials said on Wednesday, PTI reported. Indian agencies have learnt of the detention through unofficial channels and formal confirmation from the United Arab Emirates authorities is still awaited, according to a detailed report on the development. The reported arrest comes three days after Uppal's fellow promoter Sourabh Chandrakar was brought back to India from Oman on November 1.
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ISRO said on November 4 that NVS-03 has completed four orbit-raising manoeuvres and reached its geosynchronous slot at 111.75 degrees East — the milestone that follows its October 30 GSLV-F18 launch and the first manoeuvre reported on October 31.
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The Wall Street Journal reports NATO is drawing up plans to strike 150 km to thousands of kilometres inside Russia if Moscow attacks the alliance — hitting the war-making system behind the front line, with conventional weapons only, while analysts warn political approval is not guaranteed.
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Police say Lindburgh Borden, 19, fled the North Fairmount home with the Glock 19 used in the shooting and then called the victim's mother to say he had accidentally shot her daughter. He is held on $200,000 bond.
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested four more accused in an alleged international fake call centre scam targeting US nationals, taking the total arrests in the money-laundering case to seven, the agency said on Wednesday (November 4), ANI reported. Harshil Nayanbhai Raval, Jaswant Singh, Chetan Munjal and Pranav Pithadia were arrested on November 3 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, produced before the Special Court (PMLA) at Nampally in Hyderabad and remanded to judicial custody, ANI reported. The ED alleged the syndicate collected about US$27.39 million (around Rs 261 crore) from victims through 927 approved transactions between July 2025 and September 2026, and that forensic examination of 79 seized devices has so far identified 549 US nationals as victims, ANI and UrbanAcres reported. All allegations are the agency's; the case is under investigation.
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Canada posted a merchandise trade surplus of C$5.35 billion (about US$3.83 billion) in September, the highest since May 2022 and well above the C$4.10 billion analysts had forecast, Statistics Canada said on Wednesday. Gold and energy shipments to the United States drove the result — but excluding gold and energy, exports fell 5.6% as President Donald Trump's new tariffs bit into consumer goods, machinery and electronics. Ottawa said the US midterm results, which gave Democrats control of both houses of Congress, will not change its trade stance.
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The Senate voted 57-24 and the House 95-10 late on Tuesday for President Abelardo De La Espriella's bill, which bars members of illegal armed groups from holding office or entering peace negotiations and demands weapons, names, assets and information in exchange for reduced sentences.
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India's indigenously developed Pralay surface-to-surface missile was launched from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur on November 3 and successfully engaged two simulated targets at about 500 kilometres, in a fresh boost to the country's conventional precision-strike capability.
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A wanted gangster, Akashdeep alias Akash of Qadian, was shot in the leg and arrested after an encounter with the Amritsar Commissionerate Police on Wednesday, Police Commissioner Harmanbir Singh Gill said. Police say the proclaimed offender, wanted in seven criminal cases including a Rs 2.5 lakh armed robbery at a Batala money exchanger, was plotting with four associates to attack a police escort and free jailed gangster Angrez, who faces more than 15 serious cases. All details are the police's account and have not been tested in court.
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