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Amritsar Rural Police on Thursday said it had dismantled multiple illegal arms, explosives and drug-trafficking networks in the border district, arresting 16 accused and seizing 34 kg of heroin, two Uzi guns, a shotgun, five pistols, two hand grenades and 26 live cartridges. Police said the operation also solved three firing incidents, and that FIRs have been registered at five police stations — Gharinda, Beas, Mehta, Lopoke and Chatiwind.
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The Bay of Bengal Network of Ocean Researchers for Fisheries, launched at ICAR-CMFRI in Kochi, will integrate satellite observations, oceanographic surveys, climate indicators and fisheries data to examine how sea temperature, monsoon patterns, salinity and currents are changing fish distribution, migration and abundance — and to move management toward predictive, climate-informed decisions.
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India's benchmark indices posted their biggest single-day gains in a year on Thursday, with the BSE Sensex closing 2,008.61 points higher at 79,310.01 and the NSE Nifty 50 settling 576 points up at 24,536.60, extending the opening surge reported earlier in the day into a sixth consecutive winning session, PTI reported.
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The Allahabad High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition by Nageshwar Mishra and another challenging a Varanasi court's refusal to order an FIR against Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi over his September 2024 remarks in the United States about whether Sikhs in India feel safe wearing a turban or visiting a gurdwara. A single bench of Justice Vikram D Chauhan pronounced the verdict, which had been reserved on October 16; a detailed order is awaited. The Varanasi magistrate had earlier found that the applicants had shown only an apprehension, not concrete evidence of any incident.
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A Goa bench of Justices Valmiki Menezes and Amit Jamsandekar directed the Santacruz constituency BLO to add the Salgaonkar family's names within 10 days, rejected the ECI's plea to defer the case because SIR is pending before the Supreme Court, and refused to stay its own order.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 1,569.40 points (3.03%) to 53,356.12 on Wednesday, November 4 — its biggest gain since April 2025 and, per CFRA Research, its biggest post-midterm day since 1982 — as Democrats' sweep of the House and Senate eased political uncertainty; the S&P 500 rose 1.58% and the Nasdaq 1.44%, Brent crude fell more than 8% on bets a Democratic Congress hastens the end of the Iran war, AI giants rose while data-centre stocks plunged, and strategists credited election clarity and the prospect of gridlock.
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told a Bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant on Thursday that the government is examining the stayed regulations so that no section of students feels dissatisfied or apprehensive. The Court adjourned the petitions for four weeks.
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Prakasam District Collector P Raja Babu told PTI that four bodies of the nine Kasimedu fishermen whose boat capsized off the Andhra Pradesh coast have been recovered — three washed ashore at Kothapatnam — while search operations continue for the remaining five.
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CBP says San Diego Sector agents stopped a vehicle on I-5 near Camp Pendleton on October 22; a canine alert led to 36 concealed packages testing as methamphetamine, worth an estimated $650,000-plus on the street. The suspects and drugs were handed to law enforcement partners for investigation.
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A 2005 GMC Yukon and a 2021 Subaru Legacy collided at 6:41 p.m. on Nov 3 near mile marker 10.10, about 11 miles east of Fort Bragg; the Subaru burned 50 feet down an embankment, 19-year-old Trevor Aaron Morgan was flown to Ukiah with major injuries, 53-year-old Joshua Matthew Robertson had possible minor injuries, and the CHP says Morgan was arrested on suspicion of drug DUI under Vehicle Code 23152(f) — an account his mother publicly disputes, telling Mendo Local he was not arrested and the CHP information is wrong.
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The Court accepted the retired Meghalaya DGP's resignation from the five-member High-Powered Enquiry Committee for the reasons stated in his letter, and said the committee may suggest a replacement if it needs another senior police officer.
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CERT-In's finance-sector unit CSIRT-Fin says the group abuses victims' own payment APIs, sends Rs 1 test transfers before large ones, has stolen wallet keys from crypto exchanges, and has returned to NBFCs and fintechs even after they acted on earlier warnings. The November 4 advisory, CIAD-2026-0058, names no victim and discloses no loss figure.
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Officials on both sides reported five injured in overnight strikes into Thursday — three in Dnipro and Samar and one in the Kyiv region from Russian attacks, and one in Russia's Ryazan region, where the governor reported fires at industrial sites and Ukrainian reports said the Rosneft refinery was hit. Ukraine said Russia launched 2 missiles and 128 drones; Russia claimed 496 Ukrainian drones downed — both figures are the sides' own claims, days before Abu Dhabi talks on November 10–11.
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Leaders made final appeals on Thursday ahead of Saturday's vote: final polls put both big parties below 30%, neither bloc able to govern alone, and the centrist Opportunity Party — which Luxon has ruled out working with — holding the possible balance of power.
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A Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe set aside the Madhya Pradesh High Court Division Bench order and restored pension from April 6, 1991, with 6% interest to Sushila Tripathi, whose husband Ramakant Tripathi was jailed for 25 days in the 1945-46 Maihar Praja Mandal Movement. The Court held Samman Nidhi is a mark of honour, not a dole, and that the burden of searching old jail registers lies on the State.
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South Korea plans to expand its Cheonghae anti-piracy unit from the Gulf of Aden to waters south of Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz, adding a P-8A maritime patrol aircraft, an explosive ordnance disposal team and 75 personnel, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday. Officials stressed the mission is non-combat, will operate independently and will stay outside Iranian waters and the strait itself; any future mine-clearing inside Hormuz would need a permissive environment and separate parliamentary approval.
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William Spears, 68, of Rockford was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Iain D. Johnston on October 30 to 15 years and eight months in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois announced November 4. Arrested in June 2024 after a four-month narcotics investigation with 3.5 grams of cocaine he planned to sell, Spears pleaded guilty this year to possessing with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine and to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon; searches of his home and rented storage unit found roughly 700 grams of cocaine, $17,000 in cash and a loaded handgun.
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A Bench of Justices M.S. Karnik and Sandesh Patil on Thursday upheld Jitendra Rana's murder conviction but reduced his sentence from life imprisonment to 20 years in jail, and acquitted Sunil Omprakash and Deepak Ishwar of the murder charge in the 2011 Andheri killings. A detailed copy of the order is awaited.
Published 2026-11-05 · Awaaz Punjab
First results from the November 4 vote Awaaz Punjab previewed as the ANC's national test: with about 12% counted the ANC held ~32% to the DA's ~31%, and the CSIR projects a final ANC 32%, DA 26% — coalitions will decide Johannesburg and the big metros.
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A Bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi on Thursday dismissed accused dairy businessman Machindra Shantaram Lanke's transfer plea, noting the probe was carried out by a Special Investigation Team the Court itself had constituted and that most witnesses and evidence are in Andhra Pradesh.
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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held back-to-back meetings with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham on the sidelines of CHOGM 2026 in St. John's on Thursday, with the UK talks centred on the economic partnership under CETA, ANI and IANS reported.
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The INDIA bloc's Karnataka unit held its announced protest at Freedom Park in Bengaluru on Thursday, with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar and KPCC president B.K. Hariprasad leading the demand for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation and the scrapping of the SIR, ANI reported. Awaaz Punjab had reported the announcement of this protest on November 3.
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday (November 4, 2026) announced the schedule for the fifth edition of the Women's Premier League (WPL), to be played from January 14 to February 7, 2027 across Vadodara and Mumbai, ANI reported. Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) will open the season against former champions Mumbai Indians (MI) in Vadodara on January 14, with 11 matches at each venue and all 22 matches, including the playoffs, starting at 7:30 pm IST.
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Two people were killed and at least one other was injured in a massive explosion at a gunpowder and firecracker warehouse in Badli village of Rajasthan's Nagaur district on Thursday morning, officials said. ANI identified the deceased as Mohammad Aamir and Mujeeb; early wire reports differ on the number of injured, with IANS reporting two critically injured. The fire has been brought under control and an investigation is underway.
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