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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
Samvat 2083 began quietly on Dalal Street. In the special Diwali Muhurat session on Sunday — whose timings the exchanges had announced on October 19 — the Sensex closed 28.62 points lower at 80,999.40 and the Nifty fell 0.18% to 24,986.40, snapping a seven-day winning streak as investors turned defensive and questioned whether the strong foreign inflows behind the rally can last.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
A fire reported around 5 am on Sunday tore through the Placero International water-bottle factory near the Delhi border in Kundli. As it was a Sunday, no workers were inside and no injuries were reported.
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The Saudi-led coalition said on Sunday, November 8, that its air defences destroyed three ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles launched by Yemen's Houthis — expanding the earlier single Eastern Province interception Awaaz Punjab reported — with civil defence alerts in Dhahran, Dammam, Abqaiq and Al-Ahsa lifted and no damage or injuries reported.
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CBSE has declared the Class 12 special examination result for West Asia, for papers held October 23-28 for students in seven countries who missed the regular March-April exams. The result is final, replaces earlier assessment-scheme marks, and is available on DigiLocker.
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Three painting workers were killed and two others injured on Sunday when an autorickshaw carrying 17 workers rammed into a DCM vehicle near the Outer Ring Road exit at Rajendranagar, on Hyderabad's outskirts, IANS reported.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Building on Yashasvi Jaiswal's Day 1 hundred, India A declared at 464 for five on Day 2 of the third unofficial Test in Lincoln, then Prasidh Krishna removed both New Zealand A openers to leave the hosts 36 for two and trailing by 428 runs.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Human remains have been found aboard a chemical tanker struck by a drone off Romania last month, Bulgarian prosecutors in Varna said on Saturday, as the vessel underwent repairs. The prosecutor's office did not name the ship, but said it sailed under the San Marino flag — matching the Wine Trader, hit on October 15 about 24 kilometres southeast of Sulina, at the mouth of the Danube. Seven of its 12 crew were reported missing after the strike and five were rescued. Prosecutors have ordered DNA testing to identify the victims; they have published no number for the dead, and reports differ on how many people's remains were found.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Explosive-laden drones hit the army canton at Santa Rosa del Sur in Bolívar around midday on Saturday, November 7. No group has claimed the attack in the gold-mining San Lucas foothills, and President de la Espriella says those behind it will have nowhere to hide.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Voltas has named Tata Consumer Products chief Sunil Alaric D'Souza as its next chairman from November 12, as Noel Tata retires at 70 under Tata Group rules and becomes Chairman Emeritus, the company said in a filing after its November 6 board meeting.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
In an update to the record weekly rally this desk reported on Friday, foreign portfolio investors have now put a net Rs 45,970 crore into Indian equities in November so far, IANS reported on Sunday — a rotation out of AI-heavy markets in the US, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan that has made India, widely seen as a non-AI trade, the top emerging-market destination for foreign money.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Hours after announcing on Diwali morning that he was heading to Bastar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed CoBRA personnel at their Karanpur operations base on Sunday and declared that this is the first Diwali when every district of the country is free of Naxalism — crediting the security forces whose sacrifices, he said, ended a fight that once affected more than 230 districts.
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Three members of a family — a woman, her 21-day-old son and her mother-in-law — died on Sunday morning after the roof of their house collapsed in the Panki Padao area of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, police said.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
The Indian wrestler lost a tight women's 75kg final 1–2 to China's Zhao Min at Saly Beach West on Saturday after winning all four of her earlier bouts — a landmark medal in a sport making its Youth Olympic debut, taking India's Dakar tally to seven.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Delhi's air deteriorated sharply through Diwali morning on Sunday, November 8 — after an overall AQI of 384 at 6 a.m., the Central Pollution Control Board reading reported by ANI put the city at 483 by 8:10 a.m., deep in the 'severe' band, with Punjabi Bagh at 449 and RK Puram at 448 even as GRAP Stage-III curbs stayed in force across Delhi-NCR.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
India's 20-year-old Grandmaster Pranav Venkatesh scored 10.5 points from 13 rounds to win the Open title at the FIDE World Junior Blitz Championship in Al Ain on Friday, finishing a full point clear of the field — days after taking silver in the rapid section of the same championships.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
The Punjab government has promoted four 1995-batch IPS officers — Mohd Faiyaz Farooqui, Promod Ban, Amit Prasad and G. Nageswara Rao — to the rank of Director General of Police and assigned new charges to seven senior officers, under orders issued by the Department of Home Affairs and Justice on 7 November. Promod Ban has been posted as Special DGP of the Anti-Gangster Task Force, Amit Prasad will head Counter Intelligence, Farooqui takes charge of the State Armed Police at Jalandhar Cantonment, and Nageswara Rao gets Provisioning with additional charge of Modernisation.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Chief Judge George L. Russell III ruled that ICE could not keep Nayeli, 25, locked up on theft charges her ex-boss filed himself over a $12.08 McDonald's purchase — charges prosecutors dismissed the day she was seized in a courthouse hallway, minutes before her own hearing.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Diwali morning that he is travelling to Bastar in Chhattisgarh — for decades the heartland of Naxalism — to celebrate the festival with the security personnel posted there, days after the Home Minister declared the state Naxal-free and as the CRPF completes 12 straight months without an operational fatality.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Salt Lake City police entered a house near 900 South and 1900 East at about 5:20 a.m. on Saturday and took a barricaded man into custody, ending a standoff that began Friday night with threat calls and shots fired from inside the home. A half-mile shelter-in-place order held through the night and has now been lifted. Police say the man faces several charges, which have not yet been publicly listed.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
Dwain Chadwick Hall, 54, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and kidnapping over the October 2025 death of Sonia Exelby, 32, of Portsmouth, England, whose body was found in a shallow grave in Marion County. At the final pretrial hearing on November 3, prosecutors argued that images cached from websites on Hall's phone are probative of alleged motive and intent under Florida's Williams rule; his lawyer called them irrelevant. Judge Timothy McCourt — who said from the bench that some images struck him as similar to evidence in the case — will rule in writing before jury selection begins on Monday, November 16.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Iranian state television reported explosions on Saturday evening on Qeshm Island and in Jask, Sirik and Bandar Abbas, with the cause unclear and no US confirmation of any new strike, while the IRGC Navy claimed late on Saturday that two more oil tankers had struck naval mines and were burning in and east of the Strait of Hormuz — a claim no maritime authority has independently confirmed.
Published 2026-11-07 · Awaaz Punjab
Professor Suman Chakraborty, Director of IIT Kharagpur, has been elected a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the Ministry of Education said in a release on November 7, with the fellowship taking effect on January 1, 2027. India has eight scientists in TWAS's new class of 87 Fellows, and two Indians — Yusuf Khwaja Hamied and Anita Gurumurthy — are among the Academy's first four honorary members.
Published 2026-11-08 · Awaaz Punjab
A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant partially allowed Odisha's plea and modified the Orissa High Court's January 29 order, holding that Rule 12(1)(ee) of the Mineral Concession Rules, 2016 is not mandatory and directing the state to make efforts for the best use of mines in accordance with law.
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