  We analyze the compatibility of the recent LHC signals and the TeV-scale
left-right model(s) in the minimal nonsupersymmetric $SO(10)$ framework. We
show that the models in which the Higgs content is selected based on the
extended survival hypothesis do not allow the $W_R$ boson to be at the
TeV-scale. By relaxing this conjecture, we investigate various scenarios where
a number of colored-scalars, originated from various Pati-Salam multiplets, are
light and whence they survive down to the low energies. Performing a detailed
renormalization group analysis with various low-energy Higgs configurations and
symmetry breaking chains, while keeping the high energy Higgs content
unmodified; we find that, among a number of possibilities, the models which
have a light color-triplet scalar, and its combination with a light
color-sextet, particularly stand out. Although these models do allow a
TeV-scale $W_R$ boson, generating the required value of the gauge coupling
$g_R$ at this scale is non-trivial.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology