05112025-TTC-01.qxd 11/5/2025 1:01 AM 13 HINDUJA, HEAD OF RICHEST UK FAMILY, DIES BUSINESS /thetribunechd Page 1 CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 9 NO. 305 | 12 PAGES | ~5.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 wednesday | 5 november 2025 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com 8 DIE IN C’GARH TRAIN CRASH Gift the promise of security this Happy Gurpurab! Special festive offers on Whybreakrulefor TribuneChowk flyover,HCasksUT Saurabh Malik Eight persons were killed and 14 injured after an MEMU (mainline electric multiple unit) train hit a goods train near Bilaspur station in Chhattisgarh. The Railways announced ~10L for the kin of deceased. ANI Tribune News Service Chandigarh, November 4 The Punjab and Haryana High Court today verbally questioned the very basis of constructing the proposed flyover over Tribune Chowk (roundabout), while observing that the city’s Master Plan apparently had no provisions for flyovers. “The Master Plan is screaming no flyover. How are you going in for it?” the High Court Bench headed by Chief Justice Sheel Nagu asked the UT administration during the hearing on the project. The Bench also sought clarity on whether the Master Plan had been duly notified and whether due procedure had been followed for its amendment. In response, the counsel assisting the Bench, advocate Tanu Bedi, submitted that the Chandigarh Master Plan was notified in 2015 following the High Court’s intervention and “had never been amended.” Bedi stressed that Chandigarh was never conceptualised like any other metro continued on page 8 Phase I campaigning ends, 121 seats vote tomorrow Fate of 2 Dy CMs, Tejashwi, Tej Pratap to be sealed Dipak Mishra RAHUL SPARKS ROW WITH ARMY REMARK T HE campaigning for the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections in which polling will be held for 121 of the 243 seats located in 18 districts concluded on Tuesday evening. The polling is scheduled to take place on November 6. Over 3.75 crore voters will decide the fate of over 1,300 candidates in a triangular contest between the NDA, the Mahagathbandhan and the newly formed Jan Suraaj — which is fighting to create a space for itself as a third alternative. The polling will decide the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi kicked up a controversy during his public meeting at Aurangabad when he said the Army was being controlled by 10 per cent of the population, while 90 per cent of Dalits, Backward Classes, Extremely Backward Classes and minorities did not have any representation in it. fate of 16 ministers in the Nitish government, including Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary, Health Minister Mangal Pandey and another Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha. Among the other noted contestants are folk singer Maithili Thakur, world shooting star Shreyasi Singh and former Union Minister Ram Kripal Yadav. In the opposition camp, voting will BIHAR BATTLE SHOWER OF GRACE take place in the Assembly segments from where Tejashwi Yadav, Tej Pratap Yadav and Bhojpuri actor Khesari Lal Yadav are contesting. In its campaign, the NDA has primarily focused on preventing the return of the “jungle raj of the Lalu-Rabri era”, fissures in the Mahagathbandhan, providing a major industrial thrust to the state and creating Jeevika Didis. continued on page 8 Punjabdismisses PSPCLDirector for ‘embezzling funds’ Akal Takht Head Granthi Giani Raghbir Singh carries Guru Granth Sahib during a nagar kirtan on the eve of the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Tuesday. PHOTO: VISHAL KUMAR Chandigarh, November 4 The Punjab Government on Tuesday terminated the services of PSPCL Director (Power Generation) Harjit Singh on the suspicion of misappropriation of funds, which allegedly led to higher cost of fuel at state-run thermal power plants. The development comes close on the heels of the suspension of Chief Engineer of Ropar and Goindwal Sahib plants Harish Sharma on November 2. INSIDE Near-miss over Arabian VB FIR reveals Bhullar’s Sea ‘exposes’ ATC failures 30-yr trail of illegal assets Shekhar Singh Tribune News Service New Delhi, November 4 A potential mid-air disaster over the Arabian Sea was narrowly averted earlier this year, but what the investigation has since uncovered is far more chilling than the incident itself. A series of cascading failures within India’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) system, from missing hotline recordings and faulty automation to ignored logbooks and undefined duties, almost allowed two interna- Nitin Jain Hotline recordings missing, logbooks neglected: AAIB FREE TICKET CANCELLING WITHIN 48 HRS ON CARDS The DGCA has proposed allowing air passengers to cancel or modify their flight tickets without extra charges within 48 hours of booking. tional flights to come dangerously close to each other thousands of feet above the ocean. According to the final continued on page 9 Tribune News Service Chandigarh, November 4 The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) has found that arrested and suspended DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar amassed assets many times beyond his known sources of income during his three-decade-long service in the Punjab Police from 1995 to 2025, before being caught in a Rs 5-lakh bribery trap by the CBI in Chandigarh on October 16. This has been revealed in FIR No. 26, dated October 29, CBI SEIZES MORE CASH The CBI seized ~20.5 lakh cash and documents of more than 50 properties in fresh raids conducted at several locations across Patiala and Ludhiana districts in the disproportionate assets case related to arrested and suspended Punjab Police DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar. 2025, filed under Sections 13(1)(b) and 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, which has been accessed by continued on page 8 Mamdani eyes history as NY votes for mayor SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE SHRUTI GANGULY IN NEW YORK A Zohran Mamdani, Democratic candidate for the New York City mayor, with his wife Rama Duwaji at a polling site in Astoria on Tuesday. REUTERS S I write these words, I’m sitting in my apartment in Chinatown, New York, the sky is blue and the sun is blasting its rays over tenement buildings and high-rises alike. I write to music, and so I’ve been listening to the Resistance Revival Chorus’ rendition of “Ella’s Song”, a song about Ella Baker, who played a key role in the US Civil Rights ISRAEL CALLS INDIA ‘GLOBAL SUPERPOWER’ BACK PAGE movement and was a tireless advocate for social justice. I can’t help but reflect on the interconnectedness of movements through history, and how today — the day of the mayoral election in the city — is a day that the world will remember. And the world will be forever changed. Today is the day that Zohran Mamdani could become the mayor of the world’s capital. So as millions of New Yorkers cast their votes today, and the continued on page 8 c m y b