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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.
Published 2026-11-04 · Awaaz Punjab
Jean-Pierre Lacroix told journalists in New York that Lebanon's president and prime minister fear what happens when no third party stands between their army and Israel's, while in Western Sahara the 35-year MINURSO mission has already shut down and entered liquidation.
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The Associated Press has called the open 48th District — spanning San Diego and Riverside counties — for Democrat Marni von Wilpert over Republican Jim Desmond, one of the five seats California's Proposition 50 redrew. She led 92,924 votes to 63,015 on Wednesday morning, declared victory Tuesday night, and did it while recovering from breast-cancer surgery.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday, November 4 issued notice to the Central government and Meta on a public interest litigation by Sreerupa Chowdhury that alleges Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp use 'dark pattern' design features — infinite scrolling, auto-playing reels, push notifications and variable rewards — to addict children, Bar and Bench reported. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana sought the responses; the court has not ruled on the merits, and the claims in the petition are allegations yet to be answered by the respondents, LawChakra reported.
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BSE Ltd, India's oldest stock exchange, reported a 44.9 per cent year-on-year rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 809.15 crore for the September quarter (Q2 FY27), while revenue from operations rose 34.1 per cent to Rs 1,432.66 crore, the exchange said in a regulatory filing reported by Hindu BusinessLine. Profit and revenue were lower than the record June quarter, but the exchange recorded its highest-ever quarterly average daily turnover of Rs 10,494 crore in the equity cash segment.
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All 11 people swept away when two rescue boats capsized at the overflowing Bethupalli Lake in Telangana's Khammam district on Wednesday evening — 10 rescue personnel and a local resident — were rescued by Thursday morning, officials told IANS. The five fishermen they had set out to save had already been brought to safety by an NDRF team late on Wednesday night, and Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy said all the fishermen and SDRF personnel were safe.
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Farmers of the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana, led by Raju Shetti, blocked the Pune-Bengaluru National Highway at the Kini toll plaza in Kolhapur district on Tuesday to demand a first instalment of Rs 4,500 per tonne for sugarcane. The blockade continued into a second day on Wednesday, and the organisation warned the agitation could escalate — including by disrupting milk and vegetable supplies to Mumbai and Pune — if the state government does not intervene.
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India's benchmark indices opened sharply higher on Thursday, November 5, extending a run of gains, as a slump in global crude prices, a strong Wall Street close and a fourth straight day of foreign fund buying lifted sentiment, PTI and market reports said.
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Retired Marine JoAnna Mendoza declared victory in Tucson on election night and Decision Desk HQ called the race for her at 10:12 p.m. ET on November 3, flipping a seat Republicans have held since 2023. The AP count puts her 24,962 votes ahead with about 83.6% of the vote in — yet the AP itself still lists the race as too early to call, and about 80,000 Pima County ballots remain to be counted.
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Wednesday directed district collectors to ensure adequate and timely fertiliser supplies to farmers during the ongoing agricultural season and held them personally responsible for any difficulty cultivators face. At the same video conference with collectors and police chiefs, he ordered crop-loss surveys in 12 districts, a strict vigil against banned firecrackers and illicit liquor ahead of Diwali, and statewide Govardhan Puja programmes on November 9.
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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met Guyanese President Irfaan Ali on the sidelines of the Commonwealth summit in Antigua and announced an extended $500 million line of credit for roads, health and defence projects, alongside agreements on digital public infrastructure and a UPI-like payment system for Guyana.
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Punjab has recorded 2,347 stubble-burning incidents this paddy season up to November 4, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) said in its latest report carried by IANS, with Tarn Taran district alone accounting for 558 cases. The season total is 17.3% below the same period in 2025, Mirror Now reported, but 11 districts have recorded increases, prompting the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to demand stricter enforcement.
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Smith County deputies say Columbus Taylor swerved at three patrol units answering an unrelated emergency, refused to stop for 10 minutes, then barricaded himself at home before surrendering — he is jailed on three counts of aggravated assault on law enforcement, with no serious injuries reported.
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The Election Commission has separated online Form 6 from the SIR declaration in states where the revision is still under way — following its Supreme Court affidavit, and a day after its separate clarification that deleted voters who reapply will not face prosecution.
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The Ministry of Civil Aviation has released the draft National Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Policy 2026, proposing mandatory blending for international flights starting at 1 per cent on January 1, 2027 and rising in steps to 5 per cent by 2030 and 20 per cent by 2040, BioEnergy Times reported, citing Zee Business. The draft also proposes an Innovation Seed Fund of around Rs 500 crore and a National SAF Registry under the DGCA — while noting SAF may cost two to three times as much as conventional jet fuel, Hindustan Times reported via Inshorts.
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The Union Health Ministry has proposed amending the Drugs Rules, 1945 so that a manufacturer's licence is suspended immediately when a government test declares its medicine 'not of standard quality' (NSQ) on critical parameters — doing away with the show-cause notice that currently delays action. The draft, dated October 28 and published on Wednesday, keeps the licence suspended until the maker completes a root-cause analysis, implements corrective and preventive action and passes an on-site verification, Reuters reported. Comments can be submitted within 30 days.
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Robert Tantalo, 43, the controller who allegedly held every card and every ledger, is accused of 248 personal purchases totalling $492,996.96 — discovered only after he resigned in March 2026.
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U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, dismissed all charges against Harvard Medical School researcher Kseniia Petrova — concealment, false statement and smuggling over frog-embryo samples stopped at Boston Logan Airport in early 2025 — after U.S. Attorney Leah Foley moved on Tuesday night to drop the case, citing developments, priorities and resources. Petrova, detained after her visa was cancelled (a Vermont judge ruled in April that the cancellation was improper), was criminally charged in May 2025 while her release was being weighed, pleaded not guilty and was bailed in June 2025; her lawyers argued selective and vindictive prosecution, and a Boston judge let her obtain government records on comparable cases.
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CHP photos show long cargo driven through a pickup's cab into its windshield on the San Diego Freeway on November 4 — the driver escaped with minor injuries, and troopers turned the wreck into a load-securement warning Punjabi truckers on California corridors should read carefully.
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Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule has directed officials to clear, by November 20, all outstanding payments for water-scarcity works of the past two years — including dues owed to farmers whose private wells were requisitioned for emergency supply — after farmers threatened to block further acquisition of their wells. Drought has been declared in 304 of the state's 358 talukas.
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After Seattle's seventh-driest October on record, FOX Weather sees a Thu–Sun storm parade — 1–2 inches for Seattle, Tacoma and Bellingham — and NOAA's CPC flags a moderate heavy-rain risk again Nov. 12–15.
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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday launched the Network Anubhav Platform, a geospatial dashboard at anubhav.trai.gov.in that puts real network test results on a public map. It combines speed and call tests that consumers run on TRAI's MySpeed and MyCall apps with the regulator's own independent drive tests, split by area, service provider and technology. TRAI Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti said the platform brings greater transparency to network tests, while TRAI clarified that user-test figures are an experience guide, not a comprehensive quality assessment — and that it does not directly resolve individual complaints.
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India's nodal cybersecurity agency CERT-In has secured access to Anthropic's advanced AI model Claude Mythos to run experiments on finding — and, in controlled settings, potentially exploiting — software vulnerabilities, government sources told Hindu BusinessLine. The access follows incidents last month in which autonomous AI agents deployed by AI companies for research accessed live systems of Indian organisations without authorisation. Officials said CERT-In will route tests slowly and in a closed-door environment rather than sending everything to the cloud, and that its own capability has already improved from about 60 per cent to 80-85 per cent of what Mythos offers.
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Danis Piron Lara, 51, a Dominican Republic native unlawfully residing in Dorchester, pleaded guilty on November 4, 2026, in federal court in Boston to unlawfully obtaining SNAP benefits and making a false writing relating to health care matters. Prosecutors say he used a Puerto Rican U.S. citizen's identity — obtained through Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles IDs — to take $57,289.26 in MassHealth benefits from 2005 to March 2026 and $15,186 in SNAP benefits from April 2021 to March 2026. Sentencing before Senior Judge F. Dennis Saylor is scheduled for January 27; the SNAP count alone carries up to 20 years.
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