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President Donald Trump said on Friday evening that the United States had carried out another round of limited strikes on Iran, destroying a newly built Iranian anti-aircraft installation on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz in 'about 15 minutes, maybe five' — the first US strikes since the Republicans' heavy defeat in Tuesday's midterm elections. Hours earlier, Iranian media had reported two missiles hitting the island's Suza area, in the report Awaaz Punjab published earlier tonight, when who fired them was not established; the exact connection between those impacts and the operation Trump described has not been independently established, and Iran has released no official damage assessment and no casualties are confirmed.
Published 2026-11-06 · Awaaz Punjab
The Uttar Pradesh Finance Department on Saturday issued orders raising dearness allowance (DA) for state government employees and dearness relief for pensioners from 60 per cent to 63 per cent of basic pay, effective 1 July 2026. The higher rate will be paid in cash with the November salary, the orders said.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
The expert committee constituted by Sri Akal Takht Sahib, meeting at Sri Anandpur Sahib on Saturday, decided that the Punjab government must completely stay the implementation of the Jagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar (Amendment) Act, 2026 and file a compliance report on Akal Takht's June 29 directions before any dialogue on the law moves forward.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
The ED's Bengaluru office searched three premises linked to Neblio Technologies (CoinDCX) and Excelium Technologies (Delta Exchange India) on November 4–5 under FEMA, alleging unauthorised cross-border spot, futures and tokenised-stock trades running into thousands of crores. Delta Exchange denied any cross-border transfer of digital assets and said it cooperated fully; CoinDCX had not commented in reports so far. The allegations are unproven and the probe is ongoing.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Indian companies' overseas direct investment rose 40.8 per cent in rupee terms in 2025-26 to Rs 16.71 lakh crore, far outpacing the 8.5 per cent rise in inward FDI to Rs 70.72 lakh crore, the RBI's annual census on foreign liabilities and assets showed. The inward-to-outward ratio narrowed from 5.5 times to 4.2 times at end-March 2026, in a census covering 43,123 entities.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Saturday that his personal data had been published on the dark web by what he said were pro-Russian hackers, and that the hackers were seeking further information about him and his family and were willing to pay for it. Tajani, who is also deputy prime minister, linked the targeting to the Italian government's support for Ukraine. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her support for him and said the sale of confidential information about public officials was a matter of serious concern. Moscow had not commented; Russia has consistently denied involvement in cyberattacks abroad.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Sangvi police in Pimpri-Chinchwad say a SIM card cover found inside a bloodstained sack at a Pimple Gurav garbage dump led them to victim Anil Khade's family and then to his friend Vishnu Tanaji Kumbhar, who has been arrested for the alleged murder.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Judge Richard Wetzel convicted the New Albany pastors' son on 11 counts of rape of a child under 13, 11 of gross sexual imposition and 5 of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, after a bench trial in Mount Vernon. The rape counts carry life in prison; Keesee remains free on bond, passport surrendered, until a sentencing date that has not been set.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Zelenskyy publishes the full accounting of the November 6-7 strike: all 36 ballistic missiles aimed at Kyiv and its region, a substation linking the Rivne and Khmelnytskyi nuclear plants hit, nine injured including a child — as both sides prepare to meet in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday, November 7, issued an order implementing the Rs 2,000-crore Vetri Laptop Scheme announced in the 2026-27 Budget. First- and second-year undergraduate and diploma students in government and government-aided colleges will get free laptops, with state-run ELCOT handling procurement and a committee headed by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay monitoring the rollout, The Hindu BusinessLine reported.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has put most of South Texas under a Flood Watch from Saturday afternoon through Monday morning, and the Weather Prediction Center rates Sunday at level 2 of 4 for excessive rainfall — with the bullseye sitting squarely on the Laredo–Corpus Christi freight corridor, Webb, Duval and Zapata counties included.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta has held that people who cultivate forest land while living only temporarily in the forest, or outside its boundary, cannot claim Forest Dwelling Scheduled Tribe or Other Traditional Forest Dweller status on cultivation alone — and has put a Special Committee headed by former Chief Justice B. R. Gavai in charge of scrutinising forest-rights orders in the Agasthyamalai proceedings.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
The UN General Assembly's Fifth Committee has nominated India's First Secretary Shivani Gupta unopposed to the 21-member ACABQ, the expert body that reviews the UN's budgets — she will serve a three-year term from 2027.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Airstrikes hit homes in al-Shariya village, in the Bani Hushaysh district of Sanaa province, on Saturday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 others, mostly women and children, a spokesman for Yemen's Houthi-run Health Ministry told the Associated Press, accusing Saudi Arabia of carrying out the strikes. The AP said it could not independently verify the claims, and Saudi Arabia's Information Ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is likely to visit Punjab to campaign ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections, according to party sources cited in reports on 6–7 November, with Ludhiana being considered as a possible venue. No date, confirmed venue or official Congress announcement has been made — the visit remains a party-sources plan, not a scheduled event.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Demarco Jeremiah Vines, 34, was arraigned Friday on fleeing, felonious assault and resisting charges after a 2:30 a.m. pursuit that ended at 8 Mile and Gratiot. Bond was set at $750,000 with a GPS tether and house arrest; a probable cause conference is set for November 17. No one was injured.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
The CBI says Assistant Director Sudhakara T.M. was allegedly caught accepting Rs 1 lakh through a private intermediary for clearing a firm's import containers; searches were held in Visakhapatnam, Faridabad and Karnataka's Kolar district. The charges are allegations under investigation.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Justice M. I. Arun held the ED's PMLA power is derivative, not original — with no live predicate offence, the November 2023 ECIR against the Malur MLA and four others cannot stand.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien said on X on 7 November that the sharp Congress–AAP fight in Punjab does not mean the wider opposition is divided against the BJP, writing that all opposition parties fighting the BJP "know our roles". That unity claim is his political assertion — neither Congress nor AAP has announced any Punjab understanding, and both are publicly campaigning against each other for 2027.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Indian equities closed their strongest week since February 2021 on Friday, with the Sensex surging 8.82% to 81,028 and the Nifty jumping 8.58% to 25,030 in seven straight winning sessions that lifted BSE market value past Rs 503 lakh crore.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
In a letter and a video message on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished people happiness, harmony and prosperity, called Diwali the eternal victory of light over darkness, and said he would continue his annual tradition of celebrating the festival with defence personnel. Diwali falls on Sunday, November 8.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Governor Mikie Sherrill will appoint acting Secretary of State Shirley Emehelu, 48, a former federal prosecutor and fellow immigrant who ran New Jersey's November 3 election, as the state's fifth lieutenant governor, the New Jersey Globe confirmed Friday. Finalist Verlina Reynolds-Jackson withdrew the same day; the announcement is expected Monday, November 9, the constitutional deadline to fill the vacancy left by Dale Caldwell's September resignation.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
GSTN data reported November 6 shows October's e-way bills rose 23.14% year on year and 10.37% over September's previous record — and volumes are now forcing a move to 14-digit bill numbers from January 2027.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
India's Vaishnavi Adkar and Rutuja Bhosale beat second seeds Weronika Falkowska and Alana Smith 6-2, 2-6, 10-8 in the Chennai Open doubles semifinal on Saturday to reach the WTA 250 final, where Switzerland's Naima Karamoko and Simona Waltert await on Sunday.
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