Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has been sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment in a 1988 road rage case, surrendered himself before Chief Judicial Magistrate in Punjab’s Patiala court on Friday (May 20).After surrendering, the former Punjab Congress chief reached Mata Kaushalya Hospital in Patiala for medical examination. After a medical check-up, the former cricketer-turned-politician was lodged in the Patiala Central Jail. Supreme Court had yesterday imposed one-year rigorous imprisonment on him in the three-decade-old road rage case.

Indian boxer Nikhat Zareen made her way into record books by clinching a gold medal at the 12th edition of the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships with a dominating 5-0 victory. Living up to the expectations, Nikhat thrashed Thailand's Jitpong Jutamas on Thursday without breaking a sweat in the 52kg final with judges scoring the bout 30-27, 29-28, 29-28, 30-27, 29-28 in the Indian's favour. The Nizamabad (Telangana)-born boxer became the only fifth Indian woman to secure a gold medal at the World Boxing Championships after record six-time champion Mary Kom (2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 an

The national capital reported 520 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, with a case positivity rate of 2.09 per cent, informed the Delhi Health Department on Thursday. With this, the active cases in the city stand at 2,377. According to the health bulletin, 817 COVID patients recovered during this period taking the total number of recoveries since the onset of the pandemic to 18,73,604. One patient succumbed to the virus. The death toll in the city increased to 26199. As many as 24,918 COVID tests were conducted in the last 24 hours. Under the vaccination drive, 18,923 beneficiaries were a

Maharashtra farmers union, Samyukta Shetkari Kamgar Morcha (SSKM) called for a statewide protest from May 25 to 31 against rising inflation, unemployment and other people's burning issues. A meeting of SSKM that took place on Wednesday at the Peasants and Workers Party (PWP) office in Mumbai gave a clarion call for large statewide protest actions at all district and tehsil centres in both urban and rural parts of Maharashtra against the thoroughly anti-people and pro-corporate policies of the Modi-led BJP government. It is recalled that the SSKM was formed in Maharashtra one and a half years

In a major setback, Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu has been sentenced to one year of imprisonment by the Supreme Court in a road rage case that is three-decade-old. The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the review application on the issue of sentence against Sidhu, saying,"We have allowed review application on the issue of sentence. In addition to the fine imposed, we impose a sentence of imprisonment of one year to be undergone by respondent Sidhu." The order was delivered by a bench of justices AM Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul. Earlier the court had reserved the review petition in

Disgruntled Congress leader and former Punjab party chief Sunil Jakhar on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in presence of the party national president JP Nadda in Delhi. Welcoming Jhakhar into the party, Nadda said, "I welcome Sunil Jakhar to Bharatiya Janata Party. He is an experienced political leader who made a name for himself during his political career. I am confident he will play a big role in strengthening the party in Punjab." "Three generations of my family served the Congress party over the last 50 years. Today, I have broken the 50-year-old tie with Congress over i

Colonel Ajay Kothiyal (retd), who was the Aam Aadmi Party's chief ministerial candidate in Uttarakhand assembly polls held in February this year, resigned from the party on Wednesday. The former army officer announced his decision to quit the party on Twitter, posting his resignation letter on the microblogging site. "I have been a member of the Aam Aadmi Party from April 19, 2021 to May 18, 2022. Keeping the feelings of ex-soldiers, ex para-military personnel, the elders, women, youths and the intellectuals, I am sending you my resignation on May 18," Col Kothiyal said in his letter addressed

Punjab Animal Husbandry Minister Kuldeep Dhaliwal Wednesday assured the poultry, pig and goat farmers that concrete steps would be taken to promote meat marketing in Punjab so that the farmers of Punjab who are involved in this business do not have to travel to other states to sell meat. This assurance was given by the Minister during a meeting held at Punjab Bhawan with the poultry, pig and goat farmers to further make their profession profitable and solve their problems today. During this meeting, the farmers engaged in this business openly discussed their grievances with the Minister and t

Despite a sharp jump in prices, the consumption of petrol and diesel has increased in the recent months, government sources said. Talking to ANI, a government source said petrol consumption increased by 14 per cent in April when compared with the previous month, while diesel consumption grew by 2 per cent during this period. On high prices of petroleum products, the sources said that petrol and diesel prices would come down as soon as the global situation comes under control. Petrol and diesel prices were hiked 14 times between March 22 to April 6. Petrol in Delhi costs Rs 105.41 per litre whi