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A day after unnamed officials revealed the strike, the president himself told Fox News the US hit a newly built Iranian air-defence system it had watched for two months — while Tehran's chief negotiator Qalibaf answered that Iran has replied and Washington must now prevent war, and Qatar said answers to its proposals are expected within 36 hours.
Published 2026-11-03 · Awaaz Punjab
Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Tuesday directed security agencies to identify armed groups — excluding those in peace talks with the state government — suspected of involvement in the recent violence against civilians, and warned that groups found responsible could be declared unlawful and face action under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The directive, issued at a high-level security review in Imphal, follows the killing of two Kuki youths whose bodies were recovered on November 1, an incident Awaaz Punjab reported earlier.
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A Congressional Research Service Insight dated Oct. 30 (IN12750) — built on BLS, Census Bureau and Federal Reserve figures — says labor force growth fell to -0.6% in the year to September as net migration dropped from 2.7 million (2024) to 1.3 million (2025), with 321,000 projected for 2026; foreign-born workers are 19.1% of the labor force, and weak payroll numbers no longer mean what they used to.
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India and Denmark explored deeper cooperation in offshore wind, green hydrogen, battery storage and integrating renewable power into the grid, as Denmark's Minister for Business and Competitiveness Martin Lidegaard met Union New and Renewable Energy Minister Pralhad Joshi in New Delhi on Tuesday on the sidelines of the Bharat Renewable Energy Summit and Expo 2026. The talks, under the two countries' Green Strategic Partnership, came with an IEA report on India's renewable energy market launched during the visit and India holding nearly 60 GW of wind capacity and more than 300 GW of renewable capacity.
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The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its order on the regular bail plea of Baramulla MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh, known as Engineer Rashid, who has been in Tihar Jail since August 2019 in a 2017 NIA case alleging terror funding and secessionist activity in Jammu and Kashmir. The NIA opposed bail, alleging — as allegations the court has not decided — that he influenced witnesses while out on interim bail; his counsel argued seven years of custody, a trial with around 240 witnesses, and the Supreme Court's March 2026 bail to co-accused Shabir Ahmad Shah make his case for release. The order is awaited.
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On the Chicago and Cook County ballot today: should the city 'pursue all lawful means' to recover compensation from the federal government for Operation Midway Blitz — lost tax revenue, public safety costs and services to families hit by the September 2025 ICE surge, which a cited study prices at $1.26 billion in lost business spending and $107 million in lost sales tax? The advisory question passed the City Council 46-1 and the Cook County Board put its own version on the ballot. It binds nothing and pays nothing by itself — here is what it would, and would not, do. Illinois polls close at 7 p.m. Central.
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The General Assembly and Security Council, voting simultaneously on November 3, elected five judges to the International Court of Justice from nine candidates. Four won in the first round; Kenya's Phoebe Okowa needed three rounds and three rival withdrawals to convert her remainder term into a full nine-year mandate. The new bench — including Oxford professor Dapo Akande, whose win returns a UK judge to the Court for the first time since 2018 — takes its seats on February 6, 2027.
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Delhi's Food Safety Department destroyed about 6,700 kg of foul-smelling, unhygienic khoya and dhaap at the Mori Gate Khoya Mandi on Tuesday, November 3, after a mobile testing laboratory found 35 of 44 samples below standard. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta inspected the market, and Health Minister Dr Pankaj Kumar Singh ordered round-the-clock raids against food adulteration.
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Computer outages, a printer failure and pollbook confusion in Columbus, Hertford, Lenoir and Wilson counties led the State Board to vote precinct-by-precinct extensions matched to each disruption — and ballots cast in the extra time must be provisional.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the Financial Express Leadership Awards in Mumbai on Monday that she realises the 'sensitivity and anxiety' among retail and foreign investors over equity taxes and will consider their concerns — the government's first on-record response since SEBI recommended scrapping the long-term capital gains tax for foreign investors. She promised no cut, noting the same tax structure drew record inflows in 2023-24, but said circumstances have changed and India needs equity capital to sustain growth above 7 per cent.
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Payal Zambre Patil, 34, a former IT professional, was found hanging on Monday in a flat in Pune's Mukund Nagar, near her matrimonial home. Swargate police have registered a case of alleged abetment of suicide against her husband Akshay Zambre Patil and his parents; the husband has been arrested, PTI reported. Her family alleges she faced persistent harassment over demands for gold — allegations the police are investigating, with no finding yet on how she died.
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Haryana forest officials intercepted a tractor-trolley loaded with illegally felled sheesham logs at Hansi at around 2 am on Monday, ending a pursuit of about 100 km from the Pataudi area. Gurugram DFO Surender Dangi said two people were taken into custody for questioning and the confiscation process has begun.
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Home Minister Amit Shah told a Hyderabad padyatra on Monday that 3 crore of the 13 crore names removed in the SIR were infiltrators. On Tuesday, Congress MP Manish Tewari demanded the list be made public, BJP leaders rallied behind Shah — and the 3-crore figure remains an unverified allegation.
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September-quarter demand fell 29% to 162.5 tonnes even as its value rose 3% to ₹2,41,900 crore (yaani about ₹2.42 lakh crore). Jewellery fell 20%, bars and coins 40%, and unofficial imports jumped to about 50 tonnes after the duty hike to 15%.
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Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala on Tuesday launched two digital platforms at the Police Headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram — HM Acts, which tracks complaints and petitions sent directly to the Home Minister until action is taken, and HOMeS, which gives the Home Department real-time data on major crimes and alerts on offences needing urgent attention. Both systems were built by iCoPS, the digital wing of the Kerala Police.
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Gandhinagar got its new civic leadership on Tuesday as the BJP named Rupsinh Thakor, 29, as Mayor of the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation, ending weeks of speculation after the party's big win in the October 11 civic elections. Anjanaben Mehta was named Deputy Mayor and Mahendra Patel Chairman of the Standing Committee.
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Sources close to Qatar's mediation team say the United States has approved the draft memorandum of understanding the Qatari delegation presented to Iran on Monday, and that Saudi Arabia and the UAE have approved it too — a preliminary deal built on simultaneous announcements: Tehran concedes ground on its nuclear programme, Washington releases part of Iran's frozen assets. Oil prices fell on the reports. But there is no official confirmation from either capital, a senior Iranian official told Reuters a deal is still far off, and President Trump warned on Fox News the same morning: “I'm not looking to kill lots of people, but if we have to, we'll have to.”
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Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson's emergency declaration lets San Juan County voters who have not yet voted and cannot reasonably reach a polling place or drop box because of a week of flooding receive and return their ballots electronically, through the system normally reserved for military and overseas voters. Requests to the county clerk close at 5 p.m. Tuesday and electronic ballots must be submitted by 8 p.m. Colorado has issued parallel emergency-ballot measures for La Plata and Archuleta counties.
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A phoned-in bomb threat at about 10:27 a.m. emptied Beverly Elementary School in Toledo — an Election Day polling place — while the Northwest Ohio Bomb Squad and K-9 units searched; about 40 voters waited outside, nothing was found, and voting resumed inside at about 12:15 p.m. Threat calls also evacuated Monac Elementary in Toledo and schools in Bowling Green and Millbury, which are not polling sites. Ohio polls close at 7:30 p.m.
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The Carter Center — which has observed 128 elections in 40 countries since 1989 — is supporting more than 1,000 trained nonpartisan citizen observers in Georgia, Michigan, Montana, Nevada and New Mexico on Tuesday, watching everything from equipment testing and polling places to tonight's count, certification and audits, with preliminary reports due later this week.
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California could become the first US state to tax billionaires' net worth on Tuesday, as voters decide Proposition 40 — a one-time 5 percent levy on residents worth over $1 billion on January 1, 2026, with 90 percent of the money for healthcare. Governor Gavin Newsom opposes it, Bernie Sanders backs it, opponents have raised over $333 million against it, the last PPIC poll had it losing 52-46, and two rival measures on the same ballot could nullify it even if it wins a majority.
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Air India will move a larger share of its Europe- and America-bound services from Delhi to Mumbai because the continued closure of Pakistani airspace hits Delhi operations harder, CEO and Managing Director Tewolde Gebremariam said at the Aviation India and South Asia 2026 summit on Tuesday, adding that the airline is also exploring Bengaluru as a third hub, ANI reported.
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India won one gold and two silver medals on the opening medal day of the ISSF World Championship 2026 in Doha on Tuesday — the men's 50m pistol team took gold, Ravinder Singh added individual silver in the same event, and the women's 10m air rifle team won silver — but no LA 2028 Olympic quota came in the 10m air rifle events, ANI reported.
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Arizona DPS trooper Aiden Rosebeck, 35, who joined the department in 2020, was booked into the Cochise County Jail after detectives investigating a welfare check on a woman stranded by a hit-and-run developed evidence against him over an alleged on-duty incident outside Benson late on November 1. He is on unpaid leave while the sheriff's office runs the criminal case and DPS runs an internal probe; the allegations are unproven.
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