14062026-TTC-01.qxd 6/14/2026 1:15 AM Page 1 c m y b TMC PROTESTS RAID AT ABHISHEK’S HOUSENATION /thetribunechd 123 CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 10 NO. 163 | 24 PAGES | ~7.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 sunday | 14 june 2026 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com US-Iran deal to be signed today; Hormuz will open immediately, says Trump Washington, June 13 US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a deal to end the war with Iran will be signed on Sunday and the Strait of Hormuz will be ‘open to all’ immediately after that. Trump’s comments came hours after Pakistan indicated that the US and Iran were in the final stage of negotiations and that an electronic signing ceremony for the agreement was scheduled for Sunday. However, there is no immediate comment from Iran on the reported timeline. “The deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait will be open to all,” the President said in a post on Truth Social. Trump also contrasted the proposed agreement with the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated under former President Barack Obama. “Barack Obama’s deal with Iran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, was an EAM RAISES MARINERS’ KILLING WITH RUBIO Five Air Force men killed as AN-32 Lt Gen Seth, who has led 2 Commands,totakeover transport plane crashes in Assam as Army Chief on June 30 Co-pilot survives amid questions over safety of more than 35-yr-old aircraft Ajay Banerjee Tribune News Service US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said violations of the American blockade and the illicit transport of Iranian oil through the Strait of Hormuz will not be tolerated. Rubio conveyed the message during a conversation with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday. The call came after Jaishankar lodged a strong protest over the deaths of three Indian seafarers in US attacks on commercial vessels off the coast of Oman. INSIDE easy, beautiful, smooth road to a nuclear weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago, and would have used long before now. “My agreement with Iran is the exact opposite: a wall against nuclear weapons. In fact, they no longer want a nuclear weapon, nor will they have one — whether through purchase, development, or any other means of continued on page 8 Security personnel near the wreckage of the IAF’s AN-32 transport aircraft that crashed while landing in Jorhat district of Assam. PTI Squadron Leader Flight Lieutenant Sergeant Prashant Singh Shubham Kumar Jitendra Sharma Agniveervayu K Kumawat Agniveervayu Danish Alam 70% drugs in Pb coming from Gujarat; BJP sheltering Lawrence Bishnoi, says Kejriwal Aparna Banerji Tribune News Service Jalandhar, June 13 AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday claimed 70 per cent of the drugs making their way to Punjab were coming from Gujarat. He said Gujarat had become the gateway of drugs under the “ED Party” (as he called the BJP). He also referred to gangster Lawrence Bishnoi as “ED party ka damaad” (son-inlaw of BJP), implying he was being sheltered by the Centre. Kejriwal made these comments while addressing traders during the ‘SarkarVyapar Milni’ in Jalandhar. While referring tacitly to the SAD, BJP and Congress respectively, Kejriwal said the state had four parties — the Chitta Party (or the Beadbi Party) i.e. SAD; ED Party (BJP); Jhagda Party (Congress) and the AAP . Accusing the BJP of target- AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann at an event in Jalandhar. ing traders in the state through the ED, he reiterated AAP was reaching out to address their problems. “Last year, the ED Party collected Rs 60 crore donation from Punjab. But AAP got only Rs 70 lakh donation. The government is ours. The BJP has only two seats. But ED Party received generous amounts from industrialists…how? Through the threat of ED raids. Whoever didn’t give money was raided,” claimed Kejriwal. He alleged, “The ED Party (BJP) and Chitta Party continued on page 8 After surviving Himachal paraglider crash, Hollywood lens master fights for recovery 6 years in jail without trial, Khalid & Imam move fresh bail pleas Nitin Jain Tribune News Service Chandigarh, June 13 British cinematographer George Richmond — whose visual genius has illuminated some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, like ‘Quantum of Solace,’ ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and who came within a breath of death when his paraglider slammed into the Himachal mountains on June 8 — is fighting back. Slowly, painfully, but fighting. A health bulletin issued by the PGIMER-Chandigarh on Saturday evening confirmed that the 54-year-old was awake, conscious, responding to commands and able to interact and communicate with his wife, who has Richmond stable, but has limited limb movement remained steadfastly at his bedside since she flew into India, and he was airlifted to the PGIMER following a near-fatal paragliding accident in Kullu district. Richmond was part of a group of experienced paragliders who trekked from Naggar all the way to the base camp of Deo Tibba, from where they jumped off on their paragliders. This was probably his first flight and it’s not clear what happened to his controls, except that he crashed into the mountainside. According to the medical team attending on him, Rich- PM MODI REACHES FRANCE BACK PAGE mond currently has very limited movement in both arms and no movement in either leg — the grim neurological legacy of a catastrophic duallevel cervical spine fracture. His breathing muscles remain weak, with doctors warning that should his respiratory status deteriorate, he will be managed accordingly — clinical language that signals the continued spectre of mechanical ventilation. His oxygen saturation is holding at 96 per cent on nasal support. Blood pressure and heart rate are stable; kidney function is normal. His haemoglobin, however, remains low at 8.8 g/dL. Vigorous physiotherapy is ongoing round the clock. continued on page 8 Rahul Gahlawat Tribune News Service New Delhi, June 13 A Delhi court has sought response from the city police on fresh regular bail applications filed by activists Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid in the larger conspiracy case related to the 2020 riots, several months after the Supreme Court had rejected their petition. Additional Sessions Judge Sumedh Saini issued a notice to the Delhi Police and listed the matter for hearing on July 4. Both applications were filed after the Supreme Court declined to grant them bail on January 5 in the case registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). In his plea, Imam contended that more than six months had continued on page 8 Today’s issue is of 24 pages, including six-page Spectrum and four page Jalandhar Tribune. c m y b New Delhi, June 13 Five Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel were killed when their AN-32 transport aircraft crashed while landing at Assam’s Jorhat base around 10 am on Saturday. Six personnel were on board and two among those killed were officers. The co-pilot survived and is undergoing treatment at a military hospital in Jorhat, said IAF officials. The deceased have been identified as Squadron Leader Prashant Singh, Flight Lieutenant Shubham Kumar, Sergeant Jitendra Sharma, Agniveervayu Khemaram Kumawat and Agniveervayu Danish Alam. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and the IAF condoled the deaths in separate messages on X. “A court of inquiry is being constituted to ascertain the cause of the accident,” the IAF said. PAST AN-32 CRASHES ■ JUNE 3, 2019: Plane disap- pears shortly after take-off from Jorhat for Arunachal; all 13 aboard killed ■ JULY 2016: Plane with 29 disappears on way from Chennai to Port Blair; wreckage found in 2024; all dead ■ JUNE 2009:An AN-32 crashes near Rinchi Hill in Arunachal; all 13 personnel on board killed ■ MARCH 1999: Crash near Delhi’s Palam airport; all 21 on board killed, casualties on ground too Serious questions, meanwhile, have again risen over flying the AN-32 aircraft, which are over 35 years old even as their replacement is still a few years away. Sources said as soon as the aircraft took off from Jorhat on a routine sortie, its pilot reported a technical malfunction and decided to return to the base. continued on page 8 Tribune News Service New Delhi, June 13 The government has appointed Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth, currently serving as the Vice Chief of the Army, as the next Army Chief. He will assume charge on June 30 upon the retirement of the incumbent, Gen Upendra Dwivedi, PVSM, AVSM. Lt Gen Seth, an officer of the Armoured Corps, was commissioned in December 1986. It will be the first time in nearly three decades that an Armoured Corps officer has been appointed Army Chief. The last officer from the Armoured Corps to hold the post was Gen Shankar Roychowdhury, who retired in September 1997. Lt Gen Seth has extensive experience across operational, strategic, capability development and institutional domains, contributing significantly to the Army’s combat effectiveness and First Armoured Corps officer to lead force after nearly three decades Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth long-term transformation. He has commanded at every level in diverse operational environments. His command assignments include an Armoured Regiment in the desert sector, an Armoured Brigade in the western theatre and a counter-insurgency force in Jammu & Kashmir. As a Lieutenant General, he continued on page 8