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Four pilgrims were killed on the spot and 18 others injured, 10 of them critically, when two buses of the Punjab government's Mukh Mantri Teerth Yatra scheme collided near Naushera Pannuan in Tarn Taran district on Saturday afternoon. The injured were taken to Tarn Taran Civil Hospital, where an emergency was declared; the identities of the dead had not been formally released and police say an investigation into the exact cause has begun.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
A fire at a ground-floor helmet shop near Green Park Metro Station in South Delhi on Sunday afternoon trapped two women inside the R-1 building; Delhi Fire Services scaled the response to nine engines, rescued both women by ladder without injuries, and brought the blaze under control by around 3.45 pm, with a short circuit suspected preliminarily.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
The Chief of the Army Staff will hold talks with Czech military leadership in Prague, visit the Defence University in Brno and the NATO CBRN centre, and meet Czech defence industry representatives, the Ministry of Defence said on Sunday.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Chicago police say an unidentified suspect approached the man just after 4:45 a.m. Saturday in the 7100 block of South Vincennes Avenue, shot him multiple times and fled in a dark-coloured SUV. The man died at the University of Chicago Medical Center; his name has not been released and Area One detectives are investigating.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Sambhav Khandelwal, 22, the only son of Kanpur paper businessman Vishal Khandelwal, died on Saturday after falling from the sixth floor of Rudra Greens Apartment in Bithoor, where he had gone to meet a friend. His family alleges he was assaulted and pushed; the friend's family says he slipped on oil spilled from Diwali lamps while retrieving a ball. Police and a forensic team have inspected the flat and sent the body for post-mortem examination.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Spain's coastguard rescued 1,488 people from 14 wooden boats on Saturday, the highest single-day total on the Atlantic route since 2020 — and, by EFE's count, in the route's 32-year history — as tiny El Hierro took 12 of the boats days after Madrid declared a migration emergency.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
A man was pronounced dead at the scene and a woman was taken to UT Medical Center in critical condition after two vehicles collided at Cherry Street and Cecil Avenue in Knoxville around 10:15 p.m. on Saturday, November 14, Knoxville police said. Firefighters extracted the occupants of both vehicles. The driver travelling north on Cherry Street has been charged with driving on a revoked licence and other traffic offences, and police say further charges tied to the death are possible.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Michigan State Police troopers found a 21-year-old Jackson man and an 18-year-old Ludington woman dead at a Commons Drive residence in Mount Pleasant around 4:15 a.m. on Saturday, November 14. An 18-year-old Mount Pleasant man was seriously injured, taken to hospital and later treated and released, police said. Investigators say there is no immediate threat to the public, and the case awaits autopsy and toxicology results.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Ratan Sheikh, the prime accused in Friday's Santiniketan shooting in which Constable Biswajit Das was injured, was killed in a police encounter in Birbhum's Nanoor on Sunday after he allegedly opened fire on a police team during a weapon-recovery operation, police said. This follows Awaaz Punjab's earlier report on the Santiniketan shooting and the manhunt for Sheikh. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari told ANI there was no place for goons in West Bengal and warned those with illegal arms to leave the state. Police said Sheikh faced 36 criminal cases, and officers described the death as the fifth police encounter killing in the state since the change of government.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
The MEA's flagship diaspora programme runs from November 15 to 28 for the Scholars and Innovators cohort aged 18 to 23, connecting diaspora youth with India's heritage, economy and innovation ecosystem.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
The two-day Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians India Region conference at Vidhana Soudha will focus on safe cyberspace and mentorship for new women legislators, with over 150 participants expected.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Chandigarh: BJP Punjab president Kewal Singh Dhillon on Sunday constituted two key panels for the 2027 Assembly elections — a 13-member manifesto committee chaired by former state president Avinash Rai Khanna and a 14-member chargesheet committee chaired by Sunil Jakhar. The panels draw in Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha, Harbhajan Singh and Ravneet Singh Bittu, former ministers and senior leaders from across the state.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Aaron Reitz's Sunday letter to Elizabeth Warren — the fourth warning to a Democratic lawmaker in a week — cites criminal civil rights laws, sets a November 23 deadline, and follows the Warren-Blumenthal-Garcia probe of $800M in Trump-project fundraising.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Punjab BJP president Kewal Singh Dhillon on November 15 constituted a 13-member State Manifesto Committee under Avinash Rai Khanna and a 14-member State Chargesheet Committee under Sunil Jakhar for the 2027 Assembly elections, bringing former AAP Rajya Sabha members Raghav Chadha, Rajinder Gupta and Harbhajan Singh onto the manifesto panel.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Shishupal and his sisters Pooja Devi and Gayatri Devi, of Devpalpur village, died on the spot near Rihar on Sunday morning after a pickup struck their motorcycle in thick fog and a brick-laden tractor-trolley ran over them, police said. Both drivers fled; a search is on.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Reuters reports 57 confirmations in Trump's second term and 23 nominees still pending, but home-state senators have blocked or cast doubt on three picks — Rudofsky withdrawn in Arkansas, Gaiser stuck in Texas and West stuck in Oklahoma — as the lame-duck clock runs down.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
The Highway Patrol says a minivan reported traveling west in the eastbound lanes at 10:34 p.m. crashed head-on near mile marker 343 about 12 minutes later. Donna Miles, 66, of Leland died at the scene; both drivers were airlifted to WakeMed in Raleigh and charges are pending.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
A Bandra magistrate has ordered the release of Aryan Deepak Jain, arrested by Mumbai Police from Delhi on actor Sonakshi Sinha's complaint over allegedly morphed objectionable photographs, after finding that police did not produce him before the nearest magistrate in Delhi and did not record reasons for the arrest as required under Section 35(1)(b) of the BNSS. The court rejected the police plea for three days' custody; the release is not an acquittal and the investigation continues.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta's Special Police Establishment has unearthed alleged disproportionate assets worth about Rs 7.6 crore linked to Satpura Tiger Reserve Assistant Director Sanjeev Kumar Sharma in simultaneous Saturday searches at Pachmarhi and Chhindwara, recovering Rs 26.36 lakh in cash, 2.528 kg of gold and documents tied to two resorts and 28 land deals. The agency says the assets are provisionally estimated at about 560 percent above his known income; valuation is still under way.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC the Fed should not hike rates over an Iran-war energy shock. Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee answered on the same network: inflation has spread into services and health care, October's data was "borderline disturbing," and the Fed is not heading back to 2 percent — a public split one month before the December 8–9 rate decision.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Hamilton Township Police Chief Quillan Short presented the Oct. 19–23 multi-agency operation's results — 258 truck inspections and 423 citations — to township trustees, and a state lawmaker now wants Ohio CDL examinations given in English only. Fox News Digital published the figures on Sunday as Part 3 of its southwest Ohio trucking investigation.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Beecher police told residents near Waterford Lane and Somerset Drive to stay indoors on Saturday evening as shots were reported from inside a home. The Will County SWAT team took a barricaded suspect into custody, a woman was found dead, and the Major Crimes Task Force has been called in to investigate.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, with Irrigation Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy, briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the El Niño-linked drought on Sunday and sought central assistance — following up the meeting his government announced on November 13. He also invited the PM to the Invest Telangana Global Summit and the Khelo India Games.
Published 2026-11-15 · Awaaz Punjab
The ICC Board, meeting in Bali, has approved the windows for its marquee men's events through 2035 — confirming India's Champions Trophy from October 9 to 28, 2029, and the India-Bangladesh ODI World Cup from October 9 to November 23, 2031.
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