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Punjab's Anti-Gangster Task Force has secured the deportation of Gurwinder alias Afridi, a key member of the Doni Bal-Prabh Dassuwal gang, from Ethiopia after a 10-month international manhunt, DGP Gaurav Yadav announced. The operation, named Operation SHAHID, was run by the AGTF with the Counter Intelligence wing's fugitive-tracking cell OFTEC and central agencies, tracking the accused across Asia, South America and Africa. Police allege he was directing targeted killings and extortion-related firings in Punjab from abroad; a reward of Rs 5 lakh had been announced for information leading to his arrest.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
The UN COP31 climate summit formally opened in Antalya, Türkiye, on Monday, November 9, bringing together delegates from nearly 200 countries for talks running until November 20 — but the opening ceremony began about an hour and a half late, after negotiators spent Sunday night locked in argument over developing nations' demands to put climate finance items on the official agenda. UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the conference the world has entered 'a new age of climate extremes', urging leaders to cut emissions faster, speed a just transition away from fossil fuels and deliver the finance vulnerable countries need. Türkiye presides over the summit, Australia leads the negotiations, and the United States — which withdrew from the Paris process — is absent. A world leaders' summit follows on November 11-12.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Russia launched 317 strike drones at Ukraine overnight on Sunday-Monday, November 8-9, and Ukraine's Air Force said its defences shot down or suppressed 271 of them, with strikes recorded at 31 locations. In Kremenchuk, in the central Poltava region, Governor Vitaliy Dyakivnych said Russian drones hit a 16-storey residential building and a hotel, injuring seven people, while rescuers pulled 15 residents to safety. Critical infrastructure was damaged in Cherkasy and an enterprise was hit in Dnipro, regional governors said. Russia's Defence Ministry said its strikes targeted facilities supporting Ukraine's military-industrial complex and claimed its defences downed 430 Ukrainian drones in return. The exchange came a day before US-mediated trilateral talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States open in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Seven Democrats and one independent broke a 40-day stalemate in a late Sunday vote. The deal fully funds SNAP food benefits for 42 million people and reinstates fired federal workers with back pay, but leaves health-care subsidies to a promised December vote — and the House must still pass it before the government can reopen.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Indian markets recovered from a deep midday slide to close higher on Monday, November 9: the Sensex settled 107.25 points up at 81,106.65 and the Nifty 50 gained 58.25 points to 25,044.65, as public-sector bank and pharma stocks — with the Nifty Pharma index hitting a record high of 29,224.85 — outweighed losses in IT, steel and cement, PTI and Upstox reported. The rupee closed 5 paise higher at 93.93 against the US dollar.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay on Monday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 40 lakh for the family of Special Sub-Inspector K. Senthil Kumar (57), who died after an alleged assault while on duty in Theni on Diwali night — a follow-up to Sunday night's killing, which Awaaz Punjab reported earlier today. Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin alleged nine people were killed across the state in a single day, an allegation the government has not answered yet.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Deepak, a resident of Sidhrawali village in Gurugram's Pataudi area, was found dead in the driver's seat of his car near the village bus stand on Monday. Police recovered empty cartridges at the spot and are scanning CCTV footage; the attackers and the exact time of the shooting are not yet known.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Jimmy Spurger Jr., 54, who supervised investigators for the Dallas County Public Defender's Office, is held without bond on a first-degree felony murder charge after firefighters answering a welfare check found his wife Maria dead in their North Akard Street apartment on Friday night — less than two weeks after he filed for divorce.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Police in Hazaribag district said five people died and 14 were injured on Monday when a truck hit a pick-up van in the Chouparan area; local reporting said the vehicle was carrying a body to Varanasi and all five dead were from one village in neighbouring Giridih district.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Updating this morning's early-trade slide, Indian markets turned sharply lower by Monday afternoon: the Nifty 50 fell 104.60 points to 24,881.80 by 1:21 pm and the Sensex dropped 362.13 points to 80,637.27, as IT, metals and cement selling overwhelmed banking and pharma gains. The rupee, meanwhile, extended its advance to around 93.70 against the dollar — its strongest level since April and a new high for 2026 — The Hindu BusinessLine reported.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Officials said the Bhiwadi-to-Bihar bus, carrying about 50 people, overturned at the expressway's Zero Point in the Para area; rescuers pulled 15-16 trapped passengers out, and the injured were taken to the KGMU Trauma Centre and Lokbandhu Hospital.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Kolkata Police said 95 people were held for bursting prohibited firecrackers and 246 for disorderly conduct during Kali Puja raids, with 131.1 kg of banned firecrackers and 6 litres of illegal liquor seized.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
The USGS recorded the quake at 04:52 UTC on Monday, 106 km east-northeast of Hasaki at a depth of 24.2 km, and issued a green alert expecting little impact. Japan's meteorological agency gave a preliminary reading of 5.9, reported shaking in Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Tochigi and in parts of Tokyo, and issued no tsunami warning; there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
The BJP on Monday attacked Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for describing Diwali as an 'Eid of happiness' in his November 7 greetings, with Union Minister Giriraj Singh calling him a mouthpiece of the Gandhi family and the party accusing Congress of appeasement politics, ANI and PTI reported; Congress leader Rashid Alvi defended the remark, saying Eid is synonymous with joy and is used as a metaphor.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Six members of one family died of asphyxiation after a fire broke out around 2:30 a.m. on Diwali night in a grocery shop in Yedshi village of Maharashtra's Dharashiv district and spread to the house above, where the family was sleeping. One person was rescued alive. Police have not confirmed the cause; early local reports suspect a Diwali lamp, and an investigation is under way.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Miguel Angel Almaraz Maldonado, the mayor of the Texas-border town of Rio Bravo in Tamaulipas, was found alive on Sunday, November 8, a day after armed men intercepted his car while he was travelling with family in the Zacatecas-San Luis Potosi border region and took him away, Mexico's federal Security Cabinet said. Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch confirmed the recovery, which followed a coordinated operation involving the Army, Navy, federal prosecutors and four state governments; officials have not said who abducted him, where exactly he was found, or whether anyone was arrested.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
The Cyberabad Economic Offences Wing is investigating an alleged Rs 670-crore investment fraud involving about 7,400 investors across India, allegedly run through Shares Bazaar Pvt Ltd and Kisaan Parivar Ltd by Nanavath Bhupal Naik, a former mason and petrol-pump attendant who allegedly promised about 4 per cent monthly returns, Hyderabad Mail and Mirror Now reported, citing the EOW.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday announced the full schedule of the Khelo India Youth Games 2026, to be hosted by Telangana from December 11 to 22 with 27 competitive sports and one demonstration sport, close to 6,000 athletes and 1,800 support staff, IANS and ANI reported.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Three people were killed in Tiruchirappalli district on Diwali night in two separate incidents — two 17-year-old boys were allegedly attacked with sharp weapons near the Samayapuram toll plaza, and a 20-year-old IT employee was allegedly killed near Irungalur after an argument over bursting firecrackers, according to Trichy District Police.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Persistent rain wiped out the entire third day of the third four-day match between India A and New Zealand A in Lincoln on Monday, following on from India A's commanding second day — 464 for 5 declared, with New Zealand A 36 for 2 in reply. The washout denied India's bowlers, including the returning Jasprit Bumrah, valuable match practice before the senior team's two-Test series against New Zealand begins on November 19, IANS and ESPNcricinfo reported.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Parliament's Monsoon session has remained formally open — unprorogued — for a record 88 days since the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned indefinitely on August 13, breaking the previous record of 87 days set in 2008, The Hindu BusinessLine and Dainik Jagran reported on Monday. Because the session has not been formally ended, the government can reconvene it at short notice, a possibility that has fuelled speculation about a special sitting on women's reservation and delimitation.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Avijit Sarkar, 28, a house staff doctor at Kolkata's state-run N.R.S. Medical College and Hospital, was found hanging in his Nagerbazar hostel room on Sunday and declared dead at R.G. Kar Hospital. Police say they suspect suicide, but his family has filed a complaint alleging he was either murdered or driven to take his own life; the cause of death will be clear only after the initial autopsy report, police said.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
Navigational aid systems in the south of the Strait of Hormuz were destroyed and no unauthorised vessels transited the maritime route overnight, an unnamed official of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy told Iranian state media on Monday, November 9, Reuters reported from Dubai. The official did not identify who destroyed the systems, which equipment was affected, or when it happened, and Reuters carried no independent confirmation of the destruction and no response from the United States or from maritime security agencies. The claim is the latest in a weekend of competing accounts around the strait — Iranian claims of tankers hitting mines, a US-confirmed strike that disabled a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Oman, and a tanker reported hit by an unknown projectile — as oil prices eased on Monday and Qatar-mediated talks between Washington and Tehran continued.
Published 2026-11-09 · Awaaz Punjab
A fire that started in a first-floor unit at 280 West 17th Street on the evening of November 7 was knocked down in ten minutes, the Dubuque Fire Department said — but smoke, water and shut-off utilities still forced out the residents of 20 of the building's 30 units. Two occupants were rescued by ladder, two residents and a firefighter were taken to hospital with minor injuries, and the cause remains undetermined, with damage estimated at $580,000.
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