22112025-TTC-01.qxd 11/22/2025 12:35 AM 13 US PRESSES UKRAINE INTO PEACE DEAL WORLD /thetribunechd Page 1 EYEING TIE-UPS WITH ISRAELI STARTUPS: GOYAL BUSINESS CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 145 NO. 322 | 22 PAGES | ~7.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 saturday | 22 november 2025 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com Decide Amritpal parole plea in a week: HC to Pb USsanctionsIndian company,othersfor aidingIranoiltrade Tribune News Service NSA-detainee MP has sought nod to attend Parl session Saurabh Malik Tribune News Service A combo of screengrabs shows IAF’s Tejas losing altitude before crashing to the ground and erupting into a fireball at the Dubai Air Show on Friday. PTI Chandigarh, November 21 Days after NSA detainee and Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking parole to attend the winter session of Parliament from December 1 to 19, a Division Bench today directed the Punjab Government to decide his plea “within a week”, “preferably” before the session commenced. “The petition stands disposed of with a direction to the Home Secretary, Department of Home Affairs and Justice, to decide the application dated November 13 within a week, preferably before the commencement of the winter session of Parliament,” the Bench said. Detained at Dibrugarh Central Jail in Assam, the MP had invoked Section 15 of the NSA, which empowers the competent authority to grant parole to a detainee in exceptional circumstances. The Bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry questioned senior advocate RS Bains, appearing for Amritpal, about his preparation for the session. “What is your preparation? How will you participate? What is your research work? You are talking about your rights. Now, we will also talk about your duty continued on page 14 HP pilot killed in Tejas crash at Dubai show Ajay Banerjee Second accident involving jet in 19 months Tribune News Service Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh is lodged in Dibrugarh jail. FILE Canada-bound mother stopped at Delhi airport Pawan K Jaiswar Tribune News Service Amritsar, November 21 Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh’s mother Balwinder Kaur was on Friday stopped by immigration authorities at the Delhi airport, hours before she was to board a flight to Canada to meet her daughter and newborn grandchild. Family members said the immigration authorities told Balwinder that she was stopped as a lookout circular had been issued against her by the Amritsar (rural) police. Unaware of the restrictions placed on her travel, Balwinder reached the airport around noon and her flight was scheduled to take off at 3.30 pm. Meanwhile, her husband Tarsem Singh left earlier in the day for Assam to meet Amritpal at the Dibrugarh jail. Amritpal’s uncle Harjit Singh said they were unaware of any such lookout circular against Balwinder as no case was registered against her. “Had they known, they wouldn’t have bought the ticket…. Stopping her from travelling abroad is unjustified when no case is registered against her,” said Harjit. Amritpal’s sister has been living in Canada for several years. Balwinder had a valid visa, due to which she went ahead with her travel plans, said the family. This is not the continued on page 14 New Delhi, November 21 An Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot from HP’s Kangra district, Wing Commander Namansh Syal, was killed in a Tejas Mark-1 fighter aircraft crash at the Dubai Air Show today. This is the second crash involving the indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA) in the past 19 months. In March last year, a jet had crashed at a triservices exercise near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. In today’s incident, the pilot was executing a “barrel roll”, a low-flying manoeuvre, when the aircraft plunged to Firefighters at the scene & (inset) Wing Commander Namansh Syal. the ground and erupted into a fireball. Reports said the pilot tried to stabilise the jet, but could not eject in time. The IAF in a statement, said: , “The pilot sustained fatal injuries in the accident. The IAF deeply regrets the loss of life. A court of inquiry is being constituted to ascertain the cause of the accident.” Wing Commander Syal was commissioned into the IAF in December 2009 and was from the 184th Course. Himachal Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu called him “a brave son” of Himachal and said his loss was “extremely sad and heartbreaking”. “My deepest condolences to the bereaved family. I pay my heartfelt tribute to the indomitable courage, dedication and devotion to national service of the brave son,” he said in a post. The IAF will retrieve the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder to ascertain continued on page 14 New Delhi, November 21 The United States on Friday sanctioned an alleged network of front companies and shipping facilitators, including an India-based shipping company, for allegedly operating vessels that ferried crude on behalf of an Iranian armed forces oil unit. According to the US Department of the Treasury, as of early 2025, Mumbai-based RN Ship Management Private Limited, led by Indian nationals Zair Husain Iqbal Husain Sayed and Zulfikar Hussain Rizvi Sayed, operated multiple vessels used by Iran’s Sepehr Energy Jahan, including the already sanctioned tanker SOBAR. The designation came as Washington targeted a global web of front companies, facilitators and shadow-fleet tankers allegedly used by Tehran to finance the rebuilding of its depleted continued on page 14 Board halts Pb power deals citing high tariff; officials differ Ruchika M Khanna Tribune News Service Chandigarh, November 21 The Board of Directors (BoD) of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has deferred power purchase and power sale agreements with two private players. It has also ordered an inquiry into the signing of a power sale agreement (PSA) before approval. Highly placed sources in the Punjab Government told The Tribune that the decision was taken at a board meeting on Friday. It is learnt that the board has taken cognisance of the “high tariff” at which the power purchase agreements (PPAs) were signed compared to the currently lower solar power tariff. However, corporation technocrats, who have threatened to launch an agitation against c m y b PSPCL technocrats back pacts, set for showdown with top brass the state government, claim that while the PPA was approved by the board, the PSA with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) was signed after approval from the chairman-cum-managing director, on the condition that it would be ratified in the next board meeting. “This is a practice to secure power for the state, otherwise other states may sign the agreements. It is routine in power purchase dynamics,” said a senior technocrat, requesting anonymity. The technocrats also maintain that the approval for buying power, signing the PPA, terms for signing the PSA with the SECI and filing a petition before the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission for final approval of these PPAs were all cleared in the BoD meeting on September 2. The PSAs and PPAs signed with two solar power producers — Hexa Climate Solutions and SembCorp Green Initiatives — were for 150 MW of power continued on page 14