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Top BJP sources told The Tribune on Thursday that alliance talks with the Shiromani Akali Dal are in their final stage and a formal announcement is being eyed within November. Leaders of both parties are expected to meet in Delhi on Friday, and SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal may meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah, though there is no official word on that meeting. Seat-sharing for the 117-member Assembly remains the main hurdle, and neither party has made a formal announcement so far.
Published 2026-11-12 · Awaaz Punjab
IIT Kharagpur will admit 12 students across six MD specialisations at its Dr B. C. Roy Multi-Speciality Medical Research Centre from 2026-27, through NEET-PG counselling — the IIT system's first entry into postgraduate medical education, the Ministry of Education announced on November 12.
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The ESPN analyst, 63, turned himself in on Wednesday on six misdemeanor warrants over the Nov. 5 incident at 4th Avenue and Broadway. He was released on a $6,000 bond and is due in court on Dec. 18; the charges are allegations and he has not been convicted.
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The Veterans Day package in Albany clarifies Gulf-war tax eligibility, accepts classified and submarine service records as proof, waives local fees for disability home adaptations, speeds access plates and deployment registration renewals, and opens SUNY and CUNY gyms and pools to disabled veterans — alongside $150,000 in therapy grants and 17 landmarks lit green.
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Ciro Stephen Tomlian of Jacksonville, Texas, faces two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one of assault causing bodily injury after Tuesday's filmed confrontation at a “Pick Up the Mic” event in Tyler; the university says he is not a current student and has been barred from campus.
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A day after Ladakh barred protests in Leh and Kargil for the winter polls, police on Wednesday removed climate activist Sonam Wangchuk from a protest site in Leh and escorted him home, and a separate order barred him for 60 days from unauthorised rallies. Wangchuk says he is under house arrest; the administration says the step is preventive and he was only advised to stay home.
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The Harris County Sheriff's Office confirmed one death after the crash, at about 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, closed the Sam Houston Tollway at the I-45 interchange in north Houston. The cause has not been released.
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President Donald Trump posted on Thursday that "we don't need a deal with Iran" and that Vice President JD Vance should give his complete attention to alleged corruption in Democratic-run cities — one day after reports that Vance was weighing face-to-face talks with Iran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei. Brent crude topped $94 a barrel on the post.
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Researchers at IIT Madras's Department of Ocean Engineering have developed SEANAV, a real-time digital twin platform that tests, validates and trains autonomous maritime navigation systems in a virtual ocean — with AI collision avoidance and path-following already demonstrated, the institute said.
Published 2026-11-12 · Awaaz Punjab
The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday released its second list of 31 candidates for the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections, taking its declared total to 71 of 117 seats. Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian lost Lambi to his nephew Randhir Singh Dhira Khuddian, former minister Anmol Gagan Maan was dropped from Kharar, eight sitting MLAs were replaced in all, and sitting MPs Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer (Barnala) and Dr Raj Kumar Chabbewal (Phagwara) were fielded, alongside 25 newcomers.
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Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an — on the US Entity List since 2001 — bought two Nvidia H200 processors last month for 874,700 yuan (yaani about 8.75 lakh yuan, roughly $123,000) through a domestic supplier, and rented access to more restricted Nvidia computing this year, a Reuters investigation of procurement records published on Wednesday, November 11, found.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 7.5-km Kalena Agrahara-Tavarekere elevated section of Bengaluru Metro's Pink Line on Friday and roll out development projects worth over Rs 15,600 crore, as the city's metro network crosses the 100-km mark. Passenger services on the new stretch begin on Saturday morning.
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Speaker Joanna McClinton's Resolution 676 advanced unanimously on Tuesday, with Republican Leader Jesse Topper raising no objection, over September reports — which Bernstine denies — that he aimed homophobic slurs at Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta; a successful censure would be Pennsylvania's first in the House since 1879.
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Days after this desk reported the administration’s no-slowdown arrest target, the Associated Press has documented the enforcement on the ground — a hospital driveway blocked in Los Angeles, a couple seized at the Phoenix airport, twin college soccer players detained in Alabama and an 8-year-old taken into custody in San Diego — while the president says the crackdown may have been ‘too tough’ and his homeland security secretary insists nothing will change.
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Five people, including 19-year-old Safana of Pattambi and four friends, have been arrested in Tirur in Kerala's Malappuram district for allegedly conspiring to eliminate her boyfriend, ANI reported, citing police. Police said the group allegedly abducted the young man, robbed his mobile phone and brutally assaulted him. Malayalam reports said the arrests followed the youth's own complaint. All five were produced before the Tirur Magistrate Court and remanded to judicial custody.
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The county's Department of Emergency Management has published a formal Concept of Operations for a large-scale immigration raid: it cannot interfere with federal agents and will not broadcast raid information, but it will share resources, fight misinformation, support affected families and may open its Department Operations Center if trigger points are met.
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Ten people were killed and five injured early on Thursday when a passenger electric vehicle heading from Kathmandu to Sarlahi plunged about 500 metres into a gorge at Chisapani Gadhi in Bhimphedi Rural Municipality-6 of Nepal's Makwanpur district, according to reports from the district.
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The body of the four-year-old boy who fell into an open sewer in Delhi's Nangli Vihar on Tuesday afternoon was recovered about 3.5 km downstream at the Nilothi water treatment plant after a search of nearly 20 hours, police said — the outcome of the rescue operation Awaaz Punjab reported on November 11. The child is not being named.
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The raw-chicken load overturned near mile marker 23 just after 6 a.m.; the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet reported both northbound lanes and one southbound lane blocked north of the KY 800 exit at Crofton, and the road reopened early Wednesday afternoon.
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Dr. Ann Lawani, 39, who oversees 230 USF nursing students, was taken from her Lodi home on Sept 16 and found days later in Basile, Louisiana — one of an estimated 20,000+ detainees removed from ICE's public locator under a new policy now challenged in Boston federal court.
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Justices heard arguments Nov 10 in No. 25-966 over whether the Labour Department could fine the farm through its own judges for alleged unsafe water, 20-bunk housing and unpaid wages for 96 H-2A workers — or must go to a federal jury. A ruling is expected by June-July 2027.
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Carlos Sanches-Roa, 30, pleaded guilty on Tuesday and must serve 85 percent of a six-year term for the May 31, 2025 Belmont Avenue confrontation in which an officer was struck, two officers fired, and a gun was recovered from his Silverado.
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Telecom officials blocked 129 betting websites on two high court orders that never existed. A ministry inquiry will review the process, police are chasing the ministry's own logs, and the fake orders — seal, emblem and QR code included — were still online on Thursday.
Published 2026-11-12 · Awaaz Punjab
Governor Hochul's Veterans Day announcement puts New York in the U.S. DOT's Even Exchange program: military-trained heavy-equipment operators can use that experience as proof of knowledge for a Commercial Driver License, alongside the existing skills-test waiver already used by more than 3,100 New Yorkers.
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