8/11/2026 12:32 AM 13 TAXATION BILL CLEARED; UPI TO STAY FREE: FM NATION /thetribunechd Page 1 CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 146 NO. 221 | 12 PAGES | ~5.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 tuesday | 11 august 2026 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com Students face tear gas, lathicharge in bid to storm Jharkhand Assembly Fasting protester Mahto joins march, hospitalised | JPSC ex-chief held Manikant Mishra Aditi Tandon & Animesh Singh Tribune News Service 20 make cut for post of Ram Temple CEO NEW DELHI: At least 20 candidates from nearly 5,000 applicants have been shortlisted for the final round of selection for the post of the first CEO of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust. Interviews are scheduled for August 11 and 12. The Trust is likely to announce the appointment on September 2. INSIDE SCtohearpetitionon derachief’sacquittal Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge address mediapersons in New Delhi on Monday. MUKESH AGGARWAL ‘NO INTEREST IN SPEECH’: RAHUL LISTS 3 DEMANDS Rahul said the country was not interested in Shah’s opinion. He put forward three demands 1 Shah should come clean on whether he ordered the firing on protesting students or not 2 Prime Minister Modi should make a statement on the theft of Ram Temple donations 3 PM must apologise on both the issues — use of force on students and temple theft NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea against the Punjab and Haryana High Court order acquitting Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the 2002 murder case of a journalist. “This matter requires consideration,” the court said. INSIDE Students climb atop police barricades during a march to the Vidhan Sabha in Ranchi on Monday. ANI manipulation of OMR sheets. The third round of talks between student representatives and the government on Sunday had failed. Students began gathering at the protest site around 9 am before marching towards the Assembly. At the Jagannathpur temple, the Ranchi police had erected multiple hurdles, including barricades fitted with barbed wire. The march began around 9.30 am. continued on page 8 edit: testing time ‘USE OF FORCE WRONG’ ❝ Useofforceagainstprotesting students in Jharkhand is wrong. Students have a right to peaceful protest, and only dialogue can yield solutions. Rahul Gandhi, LOP IN LOK SABHA Punjab clears Bill to hire28Koutsourced workersoncontract Dropouts learn petrol bomb-making online, offered a pittance for Pb blasts CHANDIGARH: Aman Sood The Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Monday passed the Punjab State Outsourced Personnel (Transition to Contractual Engagement) Bill, 2026, paving the way for the engagement of 28,000 outsourced personnel on a contractual basis. INSIDE Shahtoreplyonstudentstir,Oppn wants debate on temple theft too New Delhi, August 10 A three-week parliamentary deadlock persisted on Monday with the government giving in to the demand for Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement on the student protest in a bid to break the logjam, but the Opposition insisting on a debate on the Ram Mandir donation theft too. Hours after Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju told the Lok Sabha that Shah was willing to make a statement on the student protest and reply to a debate on the issue “provided the Opposition continued on page 8 Tribune News Service New Delhi, August 10 What began as a protest by hundreds of job aspirants and students over the alleged irregularities in JPSC and JSSC examinations in Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi turned into an unprecedented confrontation outside the state Assembly on Monday, with the police resorting to water cannons, tear gas and lathicharge. Thousands of protesters broke through eight layers of barricading to reach the Assembly gates and its premises, refusing to leave. The agitation, which entered its 17th day on Monday, was driven by demands for the cancellation of the JSSC CGL and JPSC examinations. The protesters are also seeking reforms in the commission and a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities, including paper leaks and US TO CHARGE $4,000 FOR H-1B EXTENSION WORLD Tribune News Service Patiala, August 10 A common thread has emerged in the recent bomb attacks in various parts of Punjab, with all those arrested having learnt how to make petrol bombs online. During the past fortnight, the Sangrur police arrested two youngsters for hurling petrol bombs at the BJP office. Similarly, the Patiala police arrested three youngsters for throwing a bomb at a house, while the Amritsar police busted a nine-member gang having links with a cross-border terror module that was planning to attack Jantar Mantar in Delhi during the students’ protest. A similar case was reported from Garhshankar where a bomb was hurled at a deaddiction centre. In two continued on page 8 c m y b No BJP-SAD alliance in Indian envoys meet B’desh, Punjab,saysHaryanaCM Nepal PMs to revamp ties Tribune News Service Chandigarh, August 10 Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, who is spearheading the BJP’s political campaign in Punjab, has ruled out any possibility of an alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in the poll-bound state. “The BJP’s alliance is with the people of Punjab,” he said, claiming that the saffron party would form the next government in the neighbouring state. On SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal’s meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament last Friday, SUKHBIR DUCKS QUESTION ON TIE-UP SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday avoided questions about a possible tie-up with the BJP. He said his recent meeting with the Prime Minister was to discuss Punjab’s major issues. he said Modi represented 140 crore people of India and he could meet anyone. Expressing surprise over speculation about a possible alliance, he said some people had begun celebrating the meeting, saying that “finally, the time had continued on page 8 Ujwal Jalali Tribune News Service New Delhi, August 10 In a significant diplomatic outreach to its immediate neighbours, Indian envoys in Bangladesh and Nepal on Monday separately called on the Prime Ministers of the two countries, conveying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s greetings and reaffirming New Delhi’s commitment to strengthening bilateral ties. Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, while Indian ANI 11082026-TTC-01.qxd High Commissioner to Dhaka Dinesh Trivedi calls on PM Tarique Rahman. Ambassador to Nepal Naveen Srivastava met Prime Minister Balendra Shah in Kathmandu continued on page 8
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