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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.
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The Energy Information Administration's official weekly report for the week ending October 30 — following Tuesday's API industry estimate of a 5.267 million-barrel draw — puts commercial crude stocks at 409.8 million barrels, with distillate stocks now 13% below the five-year average heading into winter.
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A traffic constable posted at the Kanksa Traffic Guard, Sanjay Jana, allegedly shot himself with his service revolver while on duty near the Panagarh Bypass on National Highway 19 in West Bengal's West Burdwan district on Tuesday night, police said. He was rushed to a hospital in Durgapur, where he was declared dead, and police have launched a probe.
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The Commerce Department's full September report, completing last week's advance goods-only release that showed a $134.9 billion goods gap, puts the overall deficit at $105.0 billion with imports at a record $426.6 billion on the AI buildout — and record goods gaps with Mexico, Vietnam, Taiwan and South Korea despite the tariffs.
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Two explosive-laden drones struck Iranian Kurdish opposition sites in Sulaymaniyah and east Erbil on Wednesday, security sources told Reuters. Komala said its Balisan base took material damage with no casualties and blamed Iran's Revolutionary Guards — an allegation not independently established; a house in Tawella, Halabja province, was badly damaged hours earlier.
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The Mumbai Police Crime Branch has arrested a 30-year-old Bengaluru IT engineer, Vaibhav Mishra, for allegedly sending extortion threats to actors Ayushmann Khurrana, Tusshar Kapoor and others while posing as a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. Police say an audio clip demanding Rs 5 crore from Tusshar Kapoor did not match the voice of the gang aide it claimed to be from, and that no link between the arrested man and the gang has been found so far.
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An 18-year-old, Gokul, was arrested in Kerala's Kottayam district on Tuesday evening after the rented car he was driving hit a scooter rider in Paippad, then crashed into six vehicles at Kannott and kept going on a burst front tyre, damaging more than a dozen vehicles in all before residents chased and caught him, police said. The scooter rider, Nanditha, 21, suffered serious injuries to her hands and legs and is in hospital in Thiruvalla.
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The Integrity & Fidelity chief was found with multiple wounds in the 400 block of West 14th Street on Oct. 31; CBS and the Sun-Times differ on whether he was shot in his office or the parking lot, state police and a major-crimes task force are assisting, and his family is raising two children, 12 and 14, who have lost the only father they knew.
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The Delhi High Court has kept in abeyance its October 6 order directing a criminal complaint against six former CBI officers for allegedly making a false statement in court about correspondence with the administrative Ministry, LiveLaw reported. Justice Mini Pushkarna held that paragraphs 63 and 64 of the October 6 judgment shall remain in abeyance till the next date of hearing and posted the matter in February, after retired CBI Deputy Superintendents Sushil Dewan and Raman Tyagi sought recall of the order, arguing they were never properly heard — Dewan said he was served on a wrong email address and the other five officers were never issued notice, Bar and Bench reported. The pause is interim relief, not a clearance: the October order itself was a direction to file a complaint, not a finding of guilt.
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ISM's Services PMI fell to 54.5% in October from 54.9% — a 28th straight month of expansion — as new orders dropped 3.9 points to 55.9% and business activity eased to 53.8%, while employment rose to 51.4%, backlogs hit 58.0%, their highest since July 2022, and the prices index held at 73.0%, above 70% for the seventh time in eight months, with no commodity reported cheaper and fuel and tariffs the most-cited costs.
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A 72-year-old resident of Thrippunithura in Ernakulam district lost Rs 7.70 lakh after cyber fraudsters posing as Election Commission officials told him his voter record needed correction under the Special Intensive Revision and sent him a fake verification link on WhatsApp, police said. The Hill Palace police have taken up the complaint.
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ADP's October report, released Wednesday morning, beat the ~69,000 forecast: trade, transportation and utilities added 39,000 jobs, job-changers' gross pay jumped 7.6%, and September was revised to the same 86,000 — a steady labour market heading into Friday's official payrolls report.
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AP called NV-03 for Lee at 4:04 a.m. EST: 146,863 votes to 95,845, 59.14% to 38.60% in Nevada's unofficial snapshot — a landslide hold in the state's most competitive district, which Trump won in 2024 and Lee had held by under three points.
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The WHO report released in Geneva on November 4 — 'Global Benefits and Costs of Prioritized Actions on Climate Change and Health' — says scaling up six known measures could prevent 1.56-1.6 million deaths a year (one in every 40 deaths), avoid 16.7 billion tonnes of CO2 and deliver $3.9 trillion in welfare gains plus $5.4 trillion in fiscal gains annually, ahead of COP31.
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The federal truck-safety agency will fund state and local investigators to reconstruct about 2,000 fatal heavy-truck crashes across some 30 states — work meant to show why the deadliest crashes happen, and how to stop them.
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The former State Department, Justice Department and satellite-agency IT contractor admitted sharing dozens of classified documents and satellite images with Ethiopian officials from 2021 to 2023 — and, prosecutors say, urging them to 'send drones' against paramilitary fighters. He faces up to about 22 years, with sentencing set for April 14, 2027.
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A D.C. Circuit challenge by the Small Business in Transportation Coalition (Case No. 26-1297) says the UCR system was never lawfully established. With 2027 fees up ~20% and enforcement from January 1, the UCR Plan itself concedes a ruling for the challengers could greatly affect collections — yet both sides tell carriers the same thing: keep paying, by December 31.
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Nasdaq-100 futures fell as much as 2.4% overnight as Democrats took both chambers — AI and data-centre stocks led the selling and bonds rallied — before Dow E-minis turned up 436 points by 4:22 a.m. ET once the president accepted the results. The 10-year yield eased to 4.906% and the dollar slid.
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A major expansion of the wave reported on Monday in Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden and Estonia: hackers who raised fridge temperatures — the same defrost-mode trick used on about 700 French stores in October — are now confirmed in at least 11 countries, with tonnes of food spoiled and EU agencies coordinating a joint response.
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Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala said on Wednesday that the sanction under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act was granted after a legal opinion and consultation with the Chief Minister, clearing the way for the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau to investigate allegations that Kumar demanded ₹2 crore to clear contractor bills when he was the state's Public Works Department Secretary in 2006. The allegations are unproven and no finding of guilt has been made.
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday, November 4 conducted searches under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at seven premises in Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Telangana and in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, in a case relating to alleged irregularities in the evaluation of answer scripts of the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) Group-I Main Examination — in the course of which an amount of Rs 1,14,32,312 was alleged to have been paid to a private party, officials said. All the irregularities in the case are allegations under investigation; the searches do not by themselves establish guilt.
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Ludhiana's district court was evacuated on Wednesday, November 4, after an email threatened a blast at the court and attacks on schools. Police and security agencies are examining the message, whose authenticity and sender have not been established.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with the Indian contingent that participated in the Asian Para Games 2026 at around 4:30 PM on Thursday, November 5, at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in New Delhi, the Prime Minister's Office said on Wednesday. India recorded its best-ever performance at the Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, winning 114 medals, including 30 gold.
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Defence in Jaisalmer on Tuesday, November 3, that India aims to achieve defence production worth Rs 3 lakh crore and defence exports worth Rs 50,000 crore by 2029, with a record Rs 7.85 lakh crore defence budget for 2026-27, including Rs 2.19 lakh crore for modernisation.
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