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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressed the party's Insaaf Rally at Fagguwala village in Sangrur on Wednesday, formally launching the Congress campaign for the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections from Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's home district. Gandhi challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a face-to-face debate with a judge of Modi's own choosing, attacked the AAP government over drugs and law and order, and paused his prepared speech after spotting Sidhu Moosewala's father Balkaur Singh in the crowd. AAP minister Harpal Cheema dismissed the visit the same day; all party claims are attributed and labelled.
Published 2026-11-04 · Awaaz Punjab
Bangladesh's six-member garment wage board — chaired by Senior District Judge Sheikh Ashfaqur Rahman — sat for the first time on Wednesday to review the Tk 12,500 minimum wage set in 2023, as workers demanding Tk 30,000 ($243) a month clashed with police for a fifth day in Gazipur, Savar and Dhaka's Mirpur, blocking two highways despite 25 security platoons in Gazipur alone; a 21-year-old cutting worker, Toufiq Hossain, died on Tuesday after being beaten for filming a protest, police confirmed.
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Republican Governor Jim Pillen has won re-election in Nebraska, defeating Democratic former state senator Lynne Walz by about 59,400 votes in a race that stayed tight deep into election night — Walz led early, and Pillen only pulled ahead as later counts came in — before the Associated Press and Decision Desk HQ called it for the incumbent.
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In the first election held on California's Prop 50 congressional map, Democrat Randy Villegas leads six-term Republican Rep. David Valadao 45,864 votes to 24,471 in the 22nd District — a Bakersfield-to-Hanford seat where 64 percent of residents rely on Medicaid — while Democratic Rep. Adam Gray holds about 61 percent in the neighbouring 13th District, the Merced seat he won in 2024 by fewer than 200 votes. The Associated Press has called neither race, with roughly half the precincts reporting in both, and California's slow count could run for days. Across the state, Democrats were leading nearly every closely watched redrawn race.
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The Health Ministry on Wednesday (November 4) said it has proposed amendments to Schedule M of the Drugs Rules, 1945 — notified as G.S.R. No. 953(E) dated October 28, 2026 — to revise microbial contamination limits in Grade A clean areas in line with WHO Technical Report Series No. 1044, Annexure 2, IANS and the Press Information Bureau (PIB) reported. Any microbial growth in a Grade A area would trigger an investigation, and public suggestions are invited.
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CNN, NBC News, CBS News and Decision Desk HQ all projected on election night that Democrats will retake the US House of Representatives, ending the Republican majority and setting up divided government for the last two years of President Donald Trump's second term. Control of the Senate was still undecided late on Tuesday, and Trump reacted on Truth Social: 'I wasn't on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!' — a claim, not a result.
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The Indian Embassy in Riyadh said on November 4 that a second Indian critically injured in the October 10 attack on King Khalid International Airport has died, taking the Indian toll to two of the 11 nationals injured.
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Democratic Governor Josh Green has won re-election in Hawaii by a landslide, defeating Republican businessman Gary Cordery by 151,068 votes in the state's second results printout — a commanding second-term mandate in a deep-blue state where Republicans have not won the governorship since 2006.
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Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf read Tuesday's US midterm rout of Trump's Republicans as a public rejection of the Iran war — “conscience or the cost of living, Americans said NO TO WAR” — and warned that a renewed US attack after the vote would meet a “nightmare” response. His post came a day after Trump confirmed the US strike on Qeshm Island, while Qatar's mediators reported both sides still reviewing proposals and a senior Iranian official said a deal remains far away. Full detail: the seven Hormuz conditions, the military warnings, oil at $103.60, and what the new Congress changes.
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The Karnataka High Court has registered a suo motu public interest litigation over the murders of two advocates and an attempt on a senior advocate's life, directing the State to place on record its existing SOPs on the treatment of advocates at police stations, case-wise details of every advocate-murder investigation, and its response on strengthening the Advocates Protection Act. A Division Bench of Justices D K Singh and H Shanthi Bhushan said advocates must be able to work fearlessly and that a police station cannot be turned into a forum for settling civil disputes; the matter returns on December 8.
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The Associated Press called New Hampshire for Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte at 12:45 a.m., after a close race against Democrat Cinde Warmington in which the former U.S. senator held the corner office even as Democrats swept Congress nationally — extending a Republican run in the state's gubernatorial contests that dates back to 2016.
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Democrats flipped every contested U.S. House seat in Pennsylvania on November 3, according to Associated Press race calls: Janelle Stelson beat Scott Perry by 31,786 votes in the Harrisburg-area 10th, Bob Harvie beat Brian Fitzpatrick by 19,541 in Bucks County's 1st, Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti beat Rob Bresnahan by 24,502 in the 8th, and Bob Brooks beat Ryan Mackenzie by 35,358 in the Lehigh Valley's 7th — a clean sweep of the battleground corridor, on the same night Governor Josh Shapiro won re-election by more than 20 points.
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India has been welcomed as an Associate Observer at the Ibero-American Conference, and Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita conveyed India's gratitude to the Latin American community while delivering India's remarks at the Ministerial Dialogue in Madrid on Wednesday, November 4, IANS reported. The 22-member bloc spans Latin America, Spain and Portugal; Margherita is in Spain for the 30th Ibero-American Conference Summit, which runs until November 5.
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The Union Cabinet on Wednesday, November 4 approved Rs 145 billion (Rs 14,500 crore, about $1.53 billion) for a programme aimed at developing energy storage projects in India, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said, Reuters reported. The decision matches the Cabinet agenda reported earlier in the day by The Hindu — a viability gap funding (VGF) scheme for grid-scale storage. Detailed contours are awaited in the official release.
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India beat New Zealand by five wickets in the rain-hit first ODI at Eden Park, Auckland, on Wednesday, November 4, chasing a revised target of 143 in 32 overs in just 22.4 overs after bowling the hosts out for 185. Virat Kohli led the chase with 74 off 51 balls, while Arshdeep Singh (4 wickets), Gurnoor Brar (3) and Anshul Kamboj (2) had set up the win with the ball. India lead the five-match ODI series 1-0.
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has ordered a statewide crackdown on illegal liquor, drug trafficking and organised crime, directing police to dismantle the illicit-liquor network operating across five districts, ANI and Nation Press reported on Wednesday, November 4. The decision, taken at a high-level meeting at the Chief Minister's Bhopal residence on Tuesday evening, is a major new development in the Dewas case in which Khategaon station in-charge Dilip Puri was run over early on Monday by a truck allegedly carrying illicit liquor — after which the government had announced Rs 1 crore in assistance and a Sub-Inspector's post for his wife, as reported earlier.
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Democratic state senator J.D. Ford has defeated three-term Republican U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz in Indiana's 5th Congressional District, 134,476 votes to 125,851 in the Associated Press count — an upset in suburban Indianapolis territory that Donald Trump carried by nearly 17 points in 2024 and that Spartz herself won by more than 18 points two years ago. Ford, Indiana's first openly gay state legislator, will become the state's first openly gay member of Congress when he takes office in January.
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Democrat Scott Colom leads Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by 28 votes out of nearly a million cast — 462,779 to 462,751, both at 48.9% in the AP count — with Hinds County's count paused for the night, thousands of affidavit ballots left, no runoff to break the tie of process, and a 44-year Democratic drought in Mississippi hanging on double digits.
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Rob Sand, the lone Democrat in Iowa statewide office, defeated Zach Lahn 749,188 to 602,799 in the AP count — ending Republican control of the governor's office held since 2011, on the same night Josh Turek flipped Iowa's Senate seat, and setting up divided government in Des Moines.
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The Associated Press called all three questions on election night: reproductive freedom passed 60.9% to 39.1%, marriage equality 56.1% to 43.9%, and automatic voting-rights restoration was called at 9:34 p.m. — with the full AP counts, the November 13 court fight over Question 1, and the January 1, 2027 start date inside.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday, November 4, directed the Speaker of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly to decide within two months the disqualification petition pending against Bina MLA Nirmala Sapre under the Tenth Schedule anti-defection law, holding that such petitions must be decided expeditiously even when considerable time remains in the Assembly's term. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana disposed of Congress Leader of Opposition Umang Singhar's writ petition, which has awaited a Speaker's decision since 2024 on the allegation — denied by Sapre — that she gave up her Congress membership and joined the BJP.
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Zydus Lifesciences on Wednesday, November 4, reported a consolidated net profit of ₹926 crore for the July-September quarter (Q2 FY27), down about 27% from ₹1,261 crore a year earlier, even as revenue from operations rose 29% to ₹7,910 crore from ₹6,123 crore, the company said. EBITDA slipped 6% to ₹1,895 crore and the EBITDA margin narrowed to about 24% from 32.9%, as total expenses grew 51% — including a 36.4% rise in R&D spending and a 33.7% rise in employee-benefit costs, Reuters reported. North America, the drugmaker's largest market, grew 21% to ₹3,315 crore, while India formulations rose 18% to ₹1,884 crore. The shares fell about 4% after the results.
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Ghanakanta Gogoi, 34, the prime accused in the October 26 shooting at Guwahati's Hotel Bilas Inn that killed five people, died in police firing in Assam's Sivasagar district in the early hours of Wednesday, November 4, after he allegedly tried to snatch an officer's service pistol while being transported in a separate case, Sivasagar Senior Superintendent of Police Papori Chetia said, according to ANI. The encounter at Phulpanichiga came hours after Gogoi completed a seven-day Guwahati police remand and was remanded to judicial custody on Tuesday, November 3, before Sivasagar Police re-arrested him from Guwahati Central Jail. An investigating officer was injured in the scuffle and is stable, police said.
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Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann told a Chandigarh press conference on Wednesday that the pending 3 per cent dearness allowance instalment is being released, taking Punjab's DA from 50 to 53 per cent for about eight lakh government employees and pensioners — 11 per cent released in two months, he said. At his first media interaction since AAP's first candidate list and the defection of three MLAs to the BJP, Mann also dismissed the Enforcement Directorate's searches at Moga MLA Amandeep Kaur Arora's premises and said the three defectors' exit made no difference to his party.
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