08062026-TTB-01.qxd 6/8/2026 12:10 AM Page 1 c m y b GERMANY’S ZVEREV WINS FRENCH OPEN TITLESPORT /thetribunechd 13 CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 146 NO. 157 | 12 PAGES | ~5.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 HARYANA monday | 8 june 2026 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com Sukhu withdraws pay deferment for ministers, MLAs Shimla, June 7 Two months after the Himachal Government decided to defer 30 per cent salary of top officials for six months, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Sunday directed the Finance Department to withdraw the notification regarding the deferment. Except the Chief Minister, all ministers, MLAs and senior bureaucrats will draw full salary from next month. “The arrears of the deferred salary would be released along with the full pay next month,” the Chief Minister said following a meeting with the Finance Department. continued on page 8 Jai Ho! Rahman hitsechoinAttari Neeraj Bagga Tribune News Service Musician AR Rahman during an event dedicated to the bravehearts at the Attari border post in Amritsar. PTI HYDERABAD: A 28-year-old man from Hyderabad, Anshul Kuncha, was allegedly shot dead in Philadelphia, US, while delivering pizzas. His sister Tanvi said he was told to deliver pizzas in an abandoned area. “It was a trap. It was meant to kill him,” she said. — PTI Amritsar, June 7 In a historic first for Punjab, celebrated music composer and singer AR Rahman delivered a live performance at the Attari Border on Sunday, paying tribute to the Border Security Force (BSF) through a stirring rendition of his patriotic song “Jai Ho”. The performance, held about 30 minutes before the daily Beating Retreat ceremony at the Joint Check Post continued on page 8 LPG still cheapest: Govt Won’t stop till Pradhan quits: as Oppn slams price hike Dipke vows to expand stir Surya S Pillai Indiandeliveringpizza shotin Philadelphia Tribune News Service New Delhi, June 7 Indian households continue to buy cooking gas at a much cheaper rate than in any other country despite a sharp rise in global energy prices due the West Asia crisis, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas said on Sunday, defending the fresh hike in domestic LPG prices by Rs 29 per cylinder. The Opposition, however, launched a scathing attack on the government, saying soaring domestic LPG prices threatened to devastate the kitchens of common people already grappling with inflation. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said, “The Modi government has hiked the price of domestic LPG cylinders by Rs 89 over continued on page 8 NEPAL SOFTENS STANCE ON BORDER ROW BACK PAGE Tribune News Service New Delhi, June 7 Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Sunday said his agitation against alleged irregularities in examinations and recruitment tests will continue until Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns, as he announced plans to expand the continued on page 8 c m y b Parl panel asks NTA to define ‘paper leak’ NEET-UG RE-EXAM CITY INTIMATION SLIP OUT The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the exam city intimation slip for NEET-UG 2026 re-examination, slated for June 21, allowing candidates to check allotted examination city. Pb MLA hostel heritage sold in US; Speaker vows probe Chandigarh cell writes to CM as 2 chairs, 4 stools go under hammer Rajmeet Singh Tribune News Service Chandigarh, June 7 A fresh controversy has erupted over the auction of a pair of heritage chairs and a set of four low stools from the Punjab MLA hostel in Sector 4, Chandigarh, in Chicago, US, on June 4 for $72,720 (over Rs 59 lakh), raising serious questions over the preservation of assets linked to the state’s legislative institutions. The chairs have been sold for over Rs 42 lakh, while the stools fetched over Rs 17 lakh. The heritage items reached the auction house in the US despite clear orders from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) regarding checking the movement, sale and export of such items. Raising the issue, Ajay Jagga, a member of the Heritage Protection Cell, Chandigarh — an apex committee established by the Chandigarh Administration to make an inventory, trace and prevent illicit trafficking of iconic mid-century modern her- LOUNGE CHAIRS BY DESIGNER PIERRE JEANNERET ~42 LAKH LOW STOOLS SOLD FOR OVER ~17 LAKH itage furniture — has, in a letter, urged Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan to ascertain who authorised the sale and whether the requisite permission wasobtained. The heritage cell is headed by the UT Chief Secretary. The items have been sold by a US-based auction house, Wright. A picture of the sold chairs, put up on the website of the auction house, carries the inventory marking — “MLA (H) PB/1/B-11”. Speak- er Sandhwan said the matter would be probed. “However, I haven’t received any such complaint,” he said. Pointing out that the items — part of the Capitol project — were sold through the Chicago-based auction house in violation of Article 49 of the Constitution, Jagga said, “The development has once again put the focus on the cataloguing, security and protection of heritage items associated with the Punjab Vidhan Sabha and the Punjab MLA Hostel.” continued on page 8
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