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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.
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Patiala's Air Quality Index touched 499 at 7:21 a.m. on Monday, November 9 — deep in the severe category and 21st among the world's most polluted cities — a day after Diwali, as the Punjab Pollution Control Board's district report recorded 288 stubble-burning incidents in Patiala.
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A fire at a firecracker shop near Swarn Mandir in Falna late on Sunday night spread to neighbouring shops. Reports said two people were killed and one was injured, and a search was under way for three others reported missing, with firefighting continuing until at least 2.30 am.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
China's producer price index climbed 5.7% in October from a year earlier — beating forecasts and accelerating for a third straight month as war-driven energy costs hit mines and factories — while consumer inflation slowed to 0.7% as food prices fell 2.9%. The five-point gap between the two is a margin squeeze: factories are paying more but cannot pass it on to shoppers whose demand is weak.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Speaking to reporters on Sunday before flying back to Washington from Florida, President Trump confirmed he will travel to the November 18-19 APEC summit in Shenzhen and said one of his meetings there will, he thinks, include both Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin — naming denuclearization and ending the war in Iran as topics, Reuters reported. Beijing has confirmed talks about a three-way meeting are under way but has announced no final decision or agenda.
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A car ended up pinned underneath a fire-damaged semi-trailer just past Exit 36 (Rocky River Road) on Saturday afternoon, closing every outer-loop lane for hours, sending one person to hospital, and reviving hard questions about car-under-trailer crashes on Charlotte's beltway.
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Six people travelling in a car were burnt to death on Monday morning when the vehicle went out of control, struck a roadside light pole near Jagaheri on the Panipat–Khatima National Highway in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district and caught fire, police said. Preliminary information suggests the victims were residents of Haryana's Jind district, and one of the dead was a child aged about 10 to 12.
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In his first sit-down interview since the midterms, broadcast Sunday night, President Donald Trump said he believes a deal to end Russia's war is 'very close', named the hatred between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin as the biggest obstacle — and, asked what a settlement would mean for Ukraine's borders, said the country would end up 'a little bit different shape'. Kyiv insists it will not permanently give up territory.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Dr Jaswant Singh Yadav, the BJP MLA from Behror and a former Rajasthan cabinet minister, died at a Jaipur hospital on Sunday, November 8, at the age of 73 after a prolonged battle with cancer. His last rites will be performed on Monday afternoon at his native village Silpata, and the Behror Assembly seat has fallen vacant.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
A fire at the Vishwakarma Hardware Electricals building in Ujjain's Nagjhiri area on Monday morning trapped three people, including an elderly person on the third floor, who were all rescued safely, officials said; in nearby Dewas, fires were reported at three locations, including a major blaze in an old wooden building at Jawahar Chowk.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
A fire that broke out at about 9.58 pm on Sunday in a garage at Haji Kasam Chawl on Dr Maheshwari Road in Mumbai's Dongri area was raised to a Level-II emergency within minutes and spread to nearby shops, the Mumbai Fire Brigade said; no injuries were reported and the cause is not yet known.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Detravion Coats, 21, and Treyvale Cain-Raybon, 21, appeared in federal court on November 6 accused of possessing ammunition as felons, after affidavits say surveillance video caught them firing in the October 31 downtown Columbia gunfight that left a 36-year-old bystander shot in the back. Police Chief Jill Schlude says at least seven people fired nearly 30 shots; eight are charged and a ninth man is still sought.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Iraq has reached understandings with the United States to allow Iraqi oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz via a shipping lane near Oman, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera in an interview reported by Reuters on Sunday, November 8. Hussein put Iraq's losses from the Iran war and disrupted oil exports at $60 billion, and Iraqi energy officials said exports recovered to about 3.5 million barrels a day in October from 2.65 million in September. Hussein gave no terms for the arrangement, and Washington has not publicly confirmed his characterisation of it.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Galveston County deputies say Paul Brabazon, 69, of Crystal Beach was struck by an oncoming vehicle at about 5 p.m. Saturday in the 2100 block of State Highway 87 and died at the scene. The driver stayed, consented to a blood draw, and both directions of the highway were closed for hours. It was the second fatal crash on Highway 87 in two days, after Friday's four-motorcycle crash at Port Bolivar.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Mario Izrael Leon, 21, faces murder and two attempted-murder counts and Giordan Crompton, 19, faces robbery and gang counts after Kern County sheriff's detectives arrested both men on State University Drive in Sacramento on November 6 over the November 1 Rosedale Highway party shooting. Both are in Sacramento County Main Jail awaiting extradition to Kern County.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Officers were called to the 4800 block of Staunton Avenue in Central-Alameda at about 1:40 a.m. on Sunday. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, no descriptions of the suspects or their vehicle have been released, and police have not confirmed television reports that the shooting happened at a warehouse rave.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Blaine Police say officers were sent to Lexington Ave NE and 125th Ave NE at about 7:17 p.m. on Nov 7 for a person walking in the roadway; moments before an officer arrived, a southbound pickup struck the woman, who died at hospital. The driver stayed and is cooperating; four agencies are investigating.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Atlanta Police officers near 201 Courtland St NE heard gunfire at about 1:36 a.m. on Nov 8 and found a 22-year-old man shot in the knee and a woman grazed in the leg. Both are stable; no suspect or arrest has been announced.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Pennsylvania State Police say a northbound car crossed into the southbound lane of the Berwick-Hazleton Highway at 8:53 p.m. on Saturday and hit an oncoming car head-on. Its own passenger and the other driver were taken to a Geisinger hospital with serious injuries; the northbound driver faces a charge of improperly overtaking on the left.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
One person from each vehicle was taken to a local hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after the collision at about 6 a.m. on Sunday, Massachusetts State Police said. Traffic was diverted at Concord Street and all lanes reopened by 7 a.m.; the cause is under investigation.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Sheriff Dave Marshak announced on Sunday that Denzell M. Reed, 36, of St. Louis is charged with first-degree assault, first-degree domestic assault, first-degree burglary, stealing a motor vehicle and three counts of armed criminal action over the November 6 incident in the 400 block of Thoreau Trail — and is held without bond at the St. Louis City Justice Center. All charges are allegations.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Four women of one family were injured, one of them critically, when a man allegedly attacked them with a sharp weapon at their home in Dhankot, Thatikand Rural Municipality-4, Dailekh, at about 5 am on Sunday, police said; the accused has been taken into custody.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Brent fell 64 cents to $97.67 a barrel and WTI fell 35 cents to $90.51 as trading opened on Monday, extending a drop of more than 16% last week — even after a drone halted Iraq's Khor Mor gas field and both sides reported shipping hit near the Strait of Hormuz.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Most Gulf stock markets closed lower on Sunday, November 8, in the region's first trading session after a weekend that brought Houthi missile interceptions over Riyadh, shrapnel damage to a Saudi Aramco office building, and fresh reported incidents around the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia's Tadawul All Share Index fell 0.78% to close at 10,016.92 — the deepest fall among the seven markets open on Sunday — and Qatar's QE Index fell 0.51% to 10,014.83, ending a five-session winning run, according to the exchanges' closing figures reported by Reuters, the Qatar News Agency and The Edge's market wrap. Kuwait and Cairo also fell, while Bahrain was the only market to rise. The closes were shallower than the morning's early falls — Saudi Arabia had been down about 1% and Qatar about 1.3% in early trade — and oil itself has not yet priced the weekend: Brent crude last settled on Friday at $98.32 a barrel, before the weekend's incidents.
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