One of India’s leading newspaper-The Tribune turned 139
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in/ Chandigarh
The Tribune-a house hold name in north India is celebrating its 139th foundation day, today. It was started by Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist on 2 February 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan).
Dyal Singh Majithia (1848–98) was born in Benares, was the only son of General Lehna Singh. He got his early education in the Mission School at Amritsar and was later self-educated. He was a Punjabi banker and activist in progressive and social reform measures in Punjab. Besides establishing The Tribune newspaper in Lahore in 1881 and he remained founder chairman of the Punjab National Bank, established in 23 May 1894.
He also managed the affairs of the Darbar sahib (Golden Temple) for nearly thirty years. He took up business in real estate and diamonds and earned huge wealth. He was the first president of the Indian Association of Lahore and continued in that capacity till his death.
He was a founding Trustee of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj and donated liberally for educational institutions and libraries, including numerous colleges all over Northern India, like Dayal Singh College, Lahore and Dyal Singh Memorial Library, Lahore. He was closely associated with Punjab University. He established Dyal Singh Trust society.
He willed his property for establishing college for secular education, initially resulting in creation of Dayal Singh College (Lahore), later also Dyal Singh College, Delhi and Dyal Singh College, Karnal.
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started by Dyal Singh Majithia and is run by a trust comprising five eminent persons as trustees.
The Tribune is an independent newspaper in the real sense of the term. It has two sister publications, Punjabi Tribune (in Punjabi) and Dainik Tribune (in Hindi).It is among the leading English daily for Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. All three newspapers are published by the Tribune Trust. Narinder Nath Vohra is the president of the Tribune Trust, which comprises Justice S. S. Sodhi, Lt. Gen S. S. Mehta (Retd.), Naresh Mohan, and Gurbachan Jagat as trustees.
 for nearly thirty years){kind=link}