15062026-TT-01.qxd 6/14/2026 CJP HOLDS PROTEST IN HYDERABAD, B’LURU NATION /thetribunechd 11:20 PM Page 1 13 CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 146 NO. 164 | 12 PAGES | ~6.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881  HIMACHAL PRADESH 100% ETHANOL FUEL USE APPROVED BACK PAGE monday | 15 june 2026 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com 20 TMC rebels split in LS, merge with regional outfit Israel’s fresh attack on Lebanon complicates US-Iran peace deal Meet Speaker for recognition | Didi aides too submit letter New Delhi, June 14 Israel on Sunday launched a fresh attack on Beirut in Lebanon, straining the already fragile last-minute negotiations for a US-Iran peace deal. The attack came even as the US and Iran have given different timelines for the inking of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to end more than 100 days of hostilities in West Asia. Iranian parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the Aditi Tandon & Rinku Behera Tribune News Service New Delhi, June 14 Splitting from the parent party on Sunday, 20 rebel All India Trinamool Congress members met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to demand recognition as a separate bloc and announced a merger with a Bengal-based regional outfit, the Nationalist Citizens Party. The faction said it would back Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA in the House. The meeting between the rebels, including one-time TMC chief Mamata Banerjee’s confidant Sudip Bandopadhyay, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and cricketer-politician Yusuf Pathan, came after Didi’s aides — Kirti Azad and Sagarika Ghosh — submitted to Birla a letter contesting the rebels’ claim. The letter by TMC leader in the Lok Sabha Abhishek Speaker Om Birla receives a letter from TMC MPs Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Satabdi Roy and Mala Roy in New Delhi. PTI WB-BASED NATIONALIST CITIZENS PARTY The Nationalist Citizens Party of India is a West Bengal-based registered unrecognised political party that has contested elections in Tripura, Assam and Meghalaya. EC records show it is registered in Howrah in the name of an NGO, Jago Biswa. It is known to have close ties with the BJP. Banerjee, Mamata’s nephew, cites the law to say that the TMC was a single, indivisible party and no member or set of members could on their own carve out a parallel group of the same party to claim independent recognition in the House. The rebels, however, said they had decided to merge with the Nationalist Citizens continued on page 8 Ajay Banerjee Tribune News Service TRUMP SLAMS STRIKE AHEAD OF PACT US President Donald Trump has criticised an Israeli strike on Lebanon, saying it should not have happened ahead an imminent peace deal with Iran, but added an agreement was nonetheless close. attack would complicate efforts to advance negotiations with the US. While blaming the US, Ghalibaf posted on X, “By giving the green light to continued on page 8 14 Indians aboard tanker rescued after engine failure New Delhi, June 14 An Indian seafarer died on board merchant vessel MT Celestial due to lack of medical treatment as 14 Indian crew ‘UNWELL’ MARINER DIES ON ANOTHER VESSEL members of another ship, MSV Virat 1, were rescued after it faced an engine failure continued on page 8 NICE-TIES French President Emmanuel Macron greets Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of bilateral talks in Nice on Sunday. REUTERS GMADA flags realtors’ ~1K cr Kiwi’s FIFA WC call-up kicks up joy in Pb dues as ED probes CLU gaps Aakanksha N Bhardwaj Tribune News Service Rajmeet Singh Tribune News Service Chandigarh, June 14 Even as the ED is conducting a probe into alleged irregularities in change of land use (CLU) approvals granted to real estate projects, nearly 30 promoters have been found c m y b defaulting on payment of government dues to the tune of over Rs 1,000 crore. Most of the defaulters pertain to projects approved by the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA). Official documents accessed continued on page 8 Jalandhar, June 14 Known as the cradle of football, Mahilpur in Punjab has found a special reason to celebrate. The excitement surrounding New Zealand footballer Sarpreet Singh’s selection for the FIFA World Cup has reached his maternal village of Dhada Khurd in Mahilpur block in Hoshiarpur, where his family’s ties remain strong despite having settled abroad decades ago. Following the news of Sarpreet’s World Cup selection, his mother, Sarabjit Kaur, requested retired school principal Sukhchain Singh from the village, a close family friend, to distribute “parshad” at a gurdwara in gratitude. And then as Sarpreet prepared to leave for the World Cup, his mother again asked Sukhchain Singh to offer “ardas” at the gurdwara. She also sent sports kits continued on page 8