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CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 HIMACHAL PRADESH monday | 3 august 2026 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com Drug-free youth crucial for Viksit Bharat: PM unveils 100-week drive First major public outreach post stir vide a temporary “high” but ultimately damaged careers, perNew Delhi, August 2 sonal lives and families. “To Prime Minister Narendra achieve the goal of a Viksit Modi on Sunday urged the Bharat, the youth must be physcountry’s youth to stay away ically and mentally fit and stay from substance away from drug abuse and become abuse,” he stressed, ambassadors of posiadding “if a youth tive social change in gets addicted to their communities. drugs, his aspirations Addressing young take a hit, and his fampeople via video conily gets shattered”. ference, the Prime Questioning the Minister launched a social stigma associNarendra Modi 100-week ‘Nasha ated with drug Mukt Yuva for Viksit addiction, he said Bharat Sankalp Abhiyan’ in those who came out of drug what is being seen as his first addiction were fighters and major public engagement after should be honoured by society. the student protest at Jantar “Society should respect them, Mantar in the national capital embrace them and give them over NEET paper leaks. a second chance,” he said. continued on page 8 Modi said drugs might pro- Tribune News Service 7-DAY PUNJAB SESSION FROM TODAY Oppn set to corner Mann on anti-sacrilege law, paper leak Ruchika M Khanna Tribune News Service Chandigarh, August 2 The seven-day monsoon session of the 16th Punjab Vidhan Sabha will begin on Monday, with the anti-sacrilege law amendment and paper leak issues likely to pit the government against the Opposition. This may be the last session ahead of the Assem- BILLS ON AGENDA ■ Bill to regularise 65,000 contract staff to be tabled ■ Legislation to cap annual fee hike by pvt schools at 5% bly polls early next year. Though the AAP government had promised to make continued on page 8 ‘Yudh Nashean Virudh’ to go on until the end: Mann nised the menace”. He claimed the AAP government Ludhiana, August 2 had “broken the back” of the Chief Minister Bhagdrug trade through want Mann on Sunstrict enforcement, day reiterated that rehabilitation of the state governaddicts and a susment’s ‘Yudh tained public awareNashean Virudh’ ness campaign. campaign would con“Punjab, once tinue until the drug branded as ‘Udta menace was comPunjab’, is now pletely eradicated, Bhagwant Mann transforming into attributing its success ‘ Padhta te Tandrust to active public participation. Punjab’,” he said, citing the Launching a sharp attack on state’s top ranking in school previous governments, the education, record performancChief Minister alleged that the es in JEE and NEET and merShiromani Akali Dal had it-based government recruit“introduced drugs” in Punjab, ment. Mann claimed Punjab continued on page 8 while the Congress had “patro- Tribune News Service Bajrangi, Manesar kept out ofNuh yatra Gurugram, August2 Cow vigilantes Raj Kumar, alias Bittu Bajrangi, of Faridabad and Mohit Yadav, alias Monu Manesar, of Gurugram, along with 100 others, have been barred from attending the Brij Mandal Jalabhishek Yatra in Nuh on August 3. Both were named as accused in the 2023 Nuh violence, which was triggered by their alleged provocative social media posts and public announcements. INSIDE ‘US HELD OFF IRAN STRIKE FOR QUICK DEAL’ WORLD Copsassaultedme, threatened to strip another: Protester SC to take up pleas on police ‘excesses’ today Cross-borderterror byPakrenderedIWT unworkable:Kwatra Tribune News Service Satya Prakash Ujwal Jalali Tribune News Service New Delhi, August 2 A student who participated in the “Sansad Chalo” march called by the Cockroach Janta Party on July 20 alleged that police personnel abused her. While the police denied the claims, a purported video posted on X shows the girl claiming that a policeman prodded her in the back with a baton, and other women protesters faced a similar treatment. “One girl was even told, ‘Go home, otherwise I’ll take you to the station, strip you and thrash you,” the student is seen saying in the video. Refuting the claims, Sachin Sharma, Deputy Commissioner of Police, New Delhi, told The Tribune that the entire area where the protests took place had CCTV cameras. “Almost the entire area is under CCTV coverage. continued on page 8 New Delhi, August 2 The Supreme Court will on Monday hear petitions alleging police brutality during the recent Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protests over the NEET paper leak. The matter will be taken up by a Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, which had earlier indicated that it may constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by a former Supreme Court judge, to probe allegations made by protesters and pelletgun victims and determine whether attacks on police personnel were carried out by students or by “miscreants”. On July 28, the court restrained states from taking any coercive action against protesters and directed the release of those below 18 years of age, provided they had no criminal antecedents. ‘GREATEST GIFT’: TEEN’S MOTHER THANKS PM The mother of the minor whose abusive remarks against PM Narendra Modi during a student protest sparked widespread controversy on Sunday publicly thanked the PM for choosing forgiveness over retaliation. She described it as the “greatest gift” her daughter could ever receive. INSIDE The Bench observed that a fair and independent investigation was necessary and that anyone found to have committed excesses or taken the law into their own hands should be held accountable. The Bench also directed the states concerned to preserve CCTV footage, drone recordings, body-camera footage, wireless communication records, PCR logs and other digital evidence related to the protests. Punjab’s Tanvi youngest Taipei Open champ Sanjiv Kumar Bakshi Tanvi Sharma c m y b Hoshiarpur, August 2 Teenage badminton prodigy Tanvi Sharma from Hoshiarpur scripted history on Sunday by winning the BWF Taipei Open Super 300 women’s singles title. At just 17 years and 222 days old, she became the youngest champion in the Taipei Open history, surpassing the legendary Tai Tzu Ying. Tanvi defeated Vietnam’s Ends India’s 18-yr wait for title; Mann hails shuttler sixth seed Nguyen Thuy Linh in straight games 21-16, 21-16 in a commanding final to clinch the biggest title of her career. The triumph also ended India’s 18-year wait for a women’s singles title at the Taipei Open since Saina Nehwal’s victory in 2008. Tanvi’s latest success crowns a meteoric rise in world badminton. The Hoshiarpur shuttler, who trained under her mother and coach Meena Sharma, has emerged as one of India’s brightest prospects after becoming World Junior No. 1, winning multiple international junior medals and breaking into the top-35 of the senior BWF world rankings. Her consistent performances over the past year have established her among the world’s continued on page 8 Tribune News Service New Delhi, August 2 India’s Ambassador to the US Vinay Mohan Kwatra has laid out New Delhi’s most detailed public justification for keeping the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance, saying Pakistan had rendered the 1960 agreement unworkable through decades of cross-border terrorism, procedural obstruction and refusal to adapt the treaty to present-day realities. In his article ‘A Treaty Pakistan Destroyed Long Before India Set It Aside’ published in American magazine Newsweek, Kwatra argued that India’s decision to place continued on page 8 8dead,eightmissing in Kerala rains: CM NEW DELHI: Kerala Chief Minis- ter VD Satheesan on Sunday said eight persons have died, while an equal number remain missing, after heavy rainfall wreaked havoc across the state.He said 13 persons have been injured so far in rainrelated incidents. BACK PAGE B’desh court grants bail to Hindu monk DHAKA: Bangladesh’s High Court on Sunday granted bail to jailed Hindu rights leader Chinmoy Krishna Das in two cases. However, the bail would not ensure his immediate release from jail because he is accused in four other cases. INSIDE
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising four eminent persons as trustees.
The Tribune, the largest selling daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language and partisanship, are the hallmarks of the paper. It is an independent newspaper in the real sense of the term.
The English edition apart, the 133-year-old Tribune has two sister publications, Punjabi Tribune (in Punjabi) and Dainik Tribune (in Hindi).
