12112026-TTC-01.qxd 11/12/2026 12:36 AM Page 1 13 CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 10 NO. 312 | 16 PAGES | ~5.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 YOGI BACKS BURSTING OF CRACKERS ON DIWALI >> NATION /thetribunechd AMID DISSENT, NC FORMS MLA ADVISORY GROUPS >> J&K SENSEX UP 14% FROM OCTOBER LOW IN 23 SESSIONS >> BUSINESS US HOUSE REJECTS MOVE TO IMPEACH HEGSETH >> WORLD thursday | 12 november 2026 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com Three hurt as terrorists open fire at CRPF Peace deal elusive; Russia, Ukraine to swap prisoners checkpost in Kulgam; LeT role suspected Kyiv terms Abu Dhabi talks ‘constructive, substantive’ 2 SPOs go missing in Kishtwar, massive search op launched Adil Akhzer Tribune News Service Srinagar, November 11 Terrorists opened fire at a Central Reserve Police Force checkpost in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Wednesday, injuring three CRPF personnel, one of them critically, officials said. The attack took place when J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha was present in Kulgam to inaugurate the Veshow literature festival. At 2.05 pm, at least two attackers opened fire at a CRPF party deployed at Akhran near Mir Bazar in Kulgam district. Security agencies suspect the involvement of Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Mohammed Lateef Bhat in the attack. CCTV footage showed a CRPF man sitting near a shop and a hail of gunfire rocking the area. The attackers fled the spot after opening fire. The injured were shifted to a hospital in the nearby Anantnag district. The Commotion after the terrorist attack in Kulgam on Wednesday; and (right) an injured CRPF jawan. PTI officials said one of the injured was airlifted to the Army’s 92 base hospital in Srinagar for specialised treatment. Shortly after the attack, additional security was deployed and reinforcements rushed to the attack site to nab the attackers. A CRPF statement said operations were underway in the area to nab the perpetrators Noida man falls from paraglider at Bir, dies Ravinder Sood Palampur, November 11 A 26-year-old tourist from Greater Noida was killed after falling from a tandem paraglider during a recreational flight at Bir Billing on Tuesday evening. The deceased, Shubham Dobliyal, was holidaying in Himachal Pradesh with his sister and three cousins. He was flying with a local tandem pilot when the mishap occurred barely six minutes after take-off from Billing. According to preliminary reports, Dobliyal fell from the paraglider and landed in a dense forest near the designated landing zone. The pilot landed safely and alerted fellow pilots about the passenger’s fall. A search operation Pilot lands safely; booked by police for negligence was launched, and the victim’s body was recovered late in the evening. The Kangra police have registered an FIR against the pilot at Bir police station under charges of causing death due to negligence. The exact circumstances leading to the tragedy are yet to be established. Kangra Superintendent of Police Kulbhushan Verma said investigators were examining multiple possibilities, including whether the passenger’s safety harness had loosened or snapped mid-flight. He said a detailed probe would be required to continued on page 8 and the “best possible treatment is being provided to the injured”. Sources told The Tribune that the security forces were working on vital clues to hunt down the attackers. L-G Sinha was also present in the district at the time of the attack, but the incident occurred far from the venue of his event. Today’s attack is Hijack threat note found on AI flight; turns out hoax kolkata, November 11 A hijack threat to a Mumbaibound Air India flight before take-off on Wednesday morning that prompted security officials to park the aircraft in an isolation bay of the airport here and initiate statutory checks turned out to be a hoax, an official said. Authorities at the airport said flight AI 2772 departed at 5.38 pm after necessary checks as per protocol. The flight was originally scheduled to depart around 10.30 am. The note threatening that the plane would be hijacked at 11.10 am was found in the washroom just before take-off, said Vikram Singh, the Director of the Kolkata Airport. All 105 passengers in the aircraft were deboarded and it was taken to the isolation bay, he said. — PTI the first terror incident since July 31 this year, when two migrant labourers were killed in Kulgam’s Kelam area — the same vicinity where today’s attack took place. Prior to the Kelam attack, a policeman, who was deployed on the Amarnath Yatra duty, was killed in neighbouring continued on page 8 Jammu, November 11 Two Special Police Officers (SPOs) went missing from the higher reaches of Dachhan in J&K’s Kishtwar district on Wednesday, prompting security forces to launch a massive joint search operation to trace them, officials said. The missing personnel have been identified as Babi Chand (57) and Rashpal Kumar (45), both of whom were posted with the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the local police at their Kiyar village in Dachhan, the officials said. They said the two SPOs were travelling from Kiyar camp to an Army post at Dharna-Marwah when they failed to reach their destination. Their mobile phones were initially reachable but were later switched off, raising concerns continued on page 8 Ajay Banerjee Tribune News Service New Delhi, November 11 Two days of trilateral peace talks between the US, Russia and Ukraine at Abu Dhabi produced an agreement on a large-scale prisoner swap, but no breakthrough was reached on ending the war that has caused a rise in crude oil prices and snapped the supplies of foodgrain exports via the Black Sea route. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday’s session was “constructive and quite substantive”. US envoy Jared Kushner, son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, told a news conference in Abu Dhabi that the number of prisoners to be swapped would be finalised on Thursday. Kushner would travel to Moscow with US special envoy Steve Witkoff to brief Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kushner said he hoped 2 TRAINS DERAIL, ONE OF THEM AFTER INSPECTION US envoy Jared Kushner (2L), US special envoy Steve Witkoff (L) and Ukraine’s intelligence head Rustem Umerov (2R) in Abu Dhabi. AP/PTI to “make more progress on some of the issues that were discussed in Abu Dhabi”. “We see some openings and some opportunities from the talks,” he said. From Moscow, Kushner and Witkoff will fly to Dublin to meet Zelenskyy and “explore some of the ideas”. Russia’s chief negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, said both sides had agreed to a major prisoner swap and had Centre hikes rabi Amul, Mother Dairy fertiliser subsidy by raise milk prices by 64% to ~62,370 cr ~2-4/litre from today : Leading dairy comNEW DELHI Officials inspect derailed coaches of the Kolkata-Sairang Express near Guwahati on Wednesday after the train derailed at Digaru railway station, injuring four people on a route inspected a day earlier by railway authorities. Later, four AC coaches of the Gorakhpur-bound Chauri Chaura Express derailed near Kanpur. AP/PTI 3 KILLED, 24 INJURED IN SANGRUR BUS MISHAP ■ Three passengers, including a woman, were killed and 24 others hurt after a PRTC bus, on way from Dhuri to Chandigarh, crashed into a flyover wall in Sangrur early on Wednesday. ■ The police said the driver is suspected to have fallen asleep at the wheel. Preliminary investigations also indicate the bus was moving at high speed at the time of the mishap. INSIDE New Delhi, November 11 The government on Wednesday approved a subsidy of Rs 62,370 crore for phosphatic and potassic (P&K) fertilisers for the 2026-27 rabi season, a 64 per cent increase from a year earlier, as it seeks to shield farmers from rising global fertiliser prices. The estimated outlay is Rs 24,418 crore higher than the Rs 37,952 crore allocated for the previous rabi season, according to an official statement. The revised rates under the Nutrient Based Subsidy scheme will be applicable from October 1, 2026, to March 31, 2027. The government has retained special provisions to ensure that DAP is available to farmers at Rs 1,350 per 50kg bag, over and above the NBS subsidy. BACK PAGE Dera Ballan caught in AAP-BJP devotee feud overyatra 4-year-old slips into Delhi Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service The Dera Sachkhand Ballan in Jalandhar. TRIBUNE PHOTO: MALKIAT SINGH Jalandhar, November 11 Trouble appears to be brewing at the Dera Sachkhand Ballan in Jalandhar, with rival groups of devotees, owing allegiance to the ruling AAP and the BJP at loggerheads , over who enjoys closer access to dera chief Sant Niranjan Dass and how the institution should be managed. The flashpoint is the BJP’s proposed Samarasta Sankalp Yatra, scheduled to begin from Jalandhar on November 18 and conclude in Varanasi on December 3. The event is a part of the 650th Guru Ravidas Jayanti reached “mutual understanding” on some issues. Russia’s state-run TASS news agency reported that the exchange could take place within two to three weeks. If completed, it would be the latest in a long line of such swaps. In March this year, Ukraine and Russia had freed 200 prisoners of war following talks in Geneva in February. Last year, each side exchanged 146 continued on page 8 Nabin likely to attend Samarasta Sankalp event launch from dera celebrations falling on February 20, 2027, close to the Punjab Assembly elections. Besides being Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency, Varanasi is also the birthplace of Guru Ravidas, revered by the Ravidassia community that owes allegiance to Dera Ballan. The yatra is expected to travel across Punjab and key areas in Jammu and Kashmir, Chandigarh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi before culminating in Varanasi. In Punjab, it is proposed to pass through districts with sizeable Dalit population, including Hoshiarpur, Pathankot, Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Ferozepur and Muktsar. The pro-BJP Ravidassia devotees want the yatra to be flagged off from the dera, with BJP national president Nitin Nabin expected to attend. The party is also planning a large gathering of supporters and community members for the launch. However, pro-AAP devotees have objected to it, calling it “politicisation” of the continued on page 8 Today’s issue is of 16 pages, including four-page Malwa Tribune. c m y b sewer; body found in parts Rahul Gahlawat Tribune News Service New Delhi, November 11 A four-year-old boy who fell into an open drain while relieving himself in outer Delhi was found dead on Wednesday, nearly 22 hours after the incident. The rescuers recovered his body in two parts from the Nilothi Water Treatment Plant, about 6 km from the spot where he had fallen, the police said. The police said information about the incident was received at the Ranhola police station at around 3.21 pm on November 10. The child, a res- Jal Board cites damaged manhole cover; FIR lodged over negligence ident of Mohan Garden, had gone to Dass Garden Park with his mother. He fell into a sewer manhole running along the service road while moving towards the drain to answer nature’s call. The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) said the cover of the manhole was damaged reportedly by some miscreants. The police have registered a case of causing death by negligence. panies Amul and Mother Dairy have hiked milk prices by Rs 2-4 per litre, effective Thursday, due to higher input costs, including farmer procurement rates and increased fuel expenses. Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation and Mother Dairy, leading milk suppliers, last hiked milk prices in May this year. Last month, Karnataka brand Nandini had hiked rates. — PTI Former VP Dhankhar collapsesduring walk, admitted to AIIMS NEW DELHI: Former Vice Presi- dent Jagdeep Dhankhar (75) was admitted to AIIMS here on Wednesday after he fell unconscious during his morning walk, sources said. Details about his health condition were not immediately available. AIIMS authorities have not issued any statement so far. Dhankhar served as the 14th Vice President from August 2022 until his resignation on July 21, 2025. — TNS Moody’s lifts India’s growth projection for FY27 from 6.5% to 7% NEW DELHI: Moody’s Ratings on Wednesday increased India’s FY27 growth projection to 7 per cent from its previous estimate of 6.5 per cent, attributing this to widespread economic momentum and the nation’s capacity to endure the recent energy supply disruption. The US-based agency said India’s economic performance had exceeded expectations, leading to an increase in growth forecast. — TNS