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The Election Commission of India has told the Delhi High Court that a 'grave and highly sensitive' objection alleging separatist roots continues to block a final decision on registering Akali Dal (Waris Punjab De) — the organisation headed by jailed Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh that plans to contest the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections — because a comprehensive background inquiry report from Punjab's Chief Electoral Officer is still awaited. The allegation is an untested input, not a court finding.
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Rwanda's National Public Prosecution Authority received Teganya at Kigali airport on Monday evening, November 9, more than three decades after he fled the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The United States convicted him in Boston in 2019 only of immigration fraud and perjury — never of genocide — and Rwanda, which indicted him in 2014 over alleged killings at the Butare hospital where he was a medical intern, says he will now face its courts. He is the eighth genocide fugitive deported to Rwanda since 2007, the prosecution authority says.
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U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz denied Eliott Rodriguez's bid to remove Miami-Dade elections chief Alina Garcia from the canvassing board, and the machine recount of about 250,000 ballots began in Doral with Salazar ahead by 1,090 votes.
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World Bank Global Director for Water Saroj Kumar Jha has described India as a remarkable success story in water management, citing the Jal Jeevan Mission, Namami Gange and the Swachh Bharat Mission ahead of the UN Water Conference in Abu Dhabi, PTI reported on November 10.
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Chief of Defence Staff General N.S. Raja Subramani arrived in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday, November 10 for a three-day official visit to strengthen India-Tanzania defence cooperation, ANI reported — a follow-up to the inaugural India-Tanzania Army-to-Army Staff Talks held in New Delhi from October 27 to 29, with engagements planned with the Tanzania People's Defence Forces leadership and visits to military training establishments.
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Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi with eliminating armed Maoists and warned that 'Dimagi Naxals' are next, answering Rahul Gandhi's challenge to the Prime Minister over the term in the latest round of the BJP–Congress war of words on Naxalism.
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Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal, leading Nepal's delegation at COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, has pressed for a dedicated work programme on mountains and climate change, a 1.5°C limit with special attention to the Himalayas, and mountain-specific indicators in global adaptation and climate-finance goals. Nepal, with Bhutan and Kyrgyzstan, pushed mountain issues onto the conference's formal agenda, and Khanal inaugurated Nepal's national pavilion on Tuesday.
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Union Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy on Tuesday, November 10 inaugurated three new facilities worth Rs 9.12 crore at the Geological Survey of India Training Institute in Hyderabad — an international hostel, a geophysical data laboratory and a digital studio — and called for faster exploration of critical minerals and rare earths to cut India's import dependence.
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The state-run shipbuilder's consolidated profit fell 50 per cent in the September quarter even as revenue rose 11.7 per cent — its shipbuilding segment swung to a Rs 6.1 crore operating loss while ship repair profit more than doubled. A Rs 3 interim dividend was declared.
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Aaryavir Sehwag's maiden U19 hundred — 160 off 168 balls with 17 fours and seven sixes — and Ishan Sood's four wickets carried India to 309/7 and a 70-run win in the winner-takes-all Group A decider at Al Amerat; Afghanistan await in Thursday's semi-final.
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The Ladakh State Election Commission on Tuesday notified elections to all eight Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils, with polling on December 4 — the same day a shutdown called by the Kargil Democratic Alliance and backed by Leh bodies shut shops and transport across the Union Territory in protest against holding the vote in peak winter.
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At its bi-weekly briefing on Tuesday, the Ministry of External Affairs said presenting a distorted picture of any country was unfortunate and urged the authorities concerned to act, after reports that more than 150 Chinese nationals had been filming and livestreaming from low-income areas of Dhaka while claiming the footage showed New Delhi.
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US consumer prices rose 0.4% in October and core prices rose 0.3%, both a tenth of a point above forecasts, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Tuesday — the last inflation report before the Federal Reserve's December 8-9 meeting, and a core print that lands exactly on the threshold Fed Governor Christopher Waller said should put a half-point December rate hike on the table.
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Israeli forces shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy during a late-Monday raid on Burqa, near Nablus, Palestinian officials said, and wounded a 17-year-old and a 19-year-old. Wafa reported the boy's father was detained and an ambulance was stopped from reaching the wounded. The Israeli military confirmed the shooting, saying troops fired to prevent stone-throwing at Israeli vehicles. The Health Ministry said the boy's body was being withheld.
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India's largest tyre maker grew revenue nearly 18 per cent in the September quarter, but a steep jump in material costs — linked in reports to the Middle East war — cut standalone profit from Rs 511.59 crore to Rs 369.15 crore. The board declared a Rs 3 interim dividend.
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A day after Trump said the Iran war was militarily 'effectively over' and that he would hold off on new strikes, Tehran answered on Tuesday. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told IRNA the war will not end by military means or more sanctions and that Iran's demands in its two-day Hormuz proposal remain on the table; security chief Mohsen Rezaei told Washington to surrender to Iran's seven conditions and accused it of inventing negotiations; and Araghchi dismissed reports of a Rezaei–Vance meeting as baseless, saying no meeting is planned. Follow-up to Monday's Trump briefing story and the November 8 two-day proposal report.
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In an order dated November 6, a bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant directed Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh — along with the MCD and Delhi Police — to explain within two weeks how they regulate polluting and over-age vehicles in the NCR. The matter will be heard again on November 23.
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The Narcotics Control Bureau hosted the second India-US Drug Policy Executive Working Group meeting in New Delhi on November 2-3. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the NCB said both sides agreed on coordinated action, stronger intelligence sharing and tighter control of drug precursors.
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Ukraine's Air Force said 135 of the 162 drones were shot down or suppressed by 7:30 a.m., with impacts at 19 locations, a damaged care home in Pereiaslav and power and water disruption in Poltava — on the morning the Abu Dhabi trilateral talks opened.
Published 2026-11-10 · Awaaz Punjab
Amritsar Rural Police, in a joint operation with a Central Agency, have arrested seven people and recovered an RPG (22 NETTO), two pistols, 106 live cartridges, 7.904 kg of heroin, 5.152 kg of opium and 2.344 kg of ICE, Punjab Police announced on Tuesday. A drone, a GPS tracker and five mobile phones were also seized, and FIRs have been registered at Gharinda, Lopoke and Bhindi Saida police stations.
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CISCE has released the ICSE and ISC 2027 timetables: Class 10 runs February 15 to March 31 and Class 12 from February 9 to April 8, with a new 10:15 am writing start for ICSE and admit cards due from mid-December.
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The Ministry of Coal announced on November 10 that Round 2 of the Rs 37,500 crore Scheme for Promotion of Surface Coal/Lignite Gasification Projects has closed with two applications, both from NTPC — one for urea and one for methanol and dimethyl ether — and that Round 3 has opened the same day, with applications due by January 11, 2027.
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Punjab BJP president Kewal Singh Dhillon on Tuesday posed five questions to the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP government on stubble burning — where the Centre's Rs 2,056.50 crore in crop residue management funds went, how many of the claimed 94,456 CRM machines actually work, why FIRs and red entries are being slapped on small farmers, why the promised Rs 2,500-per-acre cash help was never paid, and what came of the Pusa bio-decomposer — and demanded an independent audit of the CRM funds. The AAP government had not issued a formal response to the five questions at the time of reporting.
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In 'Belonging: A Journey of Love', released on Tuesday, Sonia Gandhi recounts for the first time in detail how she refused the prime minister's post in 2004 — a decision her children backed because the office was, for them, linked to the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi.
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