SEMINAR TO OPEN ON ADVERTISING; 25 Newspaper Officials to Attend Columbia Sessions
Date: 20 October 1963
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Navjot Singh Sidhu (born 20 October 1963) is an Indian former cricketer, television personality and politician from the Indian National Congress. He is the former President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. Formerly, he was the Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs in the state government of State of Punjab. Sidhu joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2004 and contested the general election from Amritsar that year. He won the election and held the seat till 2014 winning also the next election. He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2016 from Punjab before he resigned from the position the same year and quit the party. In 2017, he joined the Indian National Congress and was elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Amritsar East. He lost in 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election from Amritsar East Assembly constituency.
As a professional cricketer, Sidhu had a career spanning over 19 years after his first-class debut in 1981–82. After losing his place in the national team following his international debut in 1983–84, he returned to score four half-centuries in the 1987 World Cup. Playing mostly as a top-order batter, Sidhu went on to play in 51 Tests and 136 One-Day-Internationals for his country. He came to be known for his six-hitting ability and earned the sobriquet "Sixer Sidhu". He was part of the Indian squads that won the 1988 Asia Cup, the 1990–91 Asia Cup and the 1995 Asia Cup and semi finalists in the 1987 Cricket World Cup and 1996 Cricket World Cup.
After retirement, he turned to commentary and television, most notably as a judge of comedy shows, and as a permanent guest in Comedy Nights with Kapil (2013–2015) and later The Kapil Sharma Show (2016–2019). He was a contestant in the reality television show Bigg Boss (2012) and was seen in the show Kyaa Hoga Nimmo Kaa.
In 1988, Sidhu was involved in road rage incident of assault and causing the death of a man. In May 2022, the Supreme Court of India convicted him of voluntarily causing hurt (Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code) and sentenced him to 1 year rigorous imprisonment. He was released after serving nearly 10 months of his sentence at Patiala Jail.
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Date: 20 October 1963
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Date: 21 October 1963
ITU bars new members until unemployed get jobs; says Journal's new edition created 35 jobs; Powers comments
Date: 20 October 1963
By CHARLES GRUTZNER
Charles GRUTZNER
article on Hearst Corp set-up; chart
Date: 21 October 1963
Photographed by The City News Bureau for The New York TimesBy NAN ROBERTSON Special to The New York Times
Date: 20 October 1963
114 Journal-Amer ITU employes lose jobs to Mirror employes because of joint ITU unit for Mirror and Journal; Journal hires some other Mirror employes; repts Starlight Edition sales 'gratifying'; ANG and Reporters Assn rept some progress in job placement; Overseas Press Club plans placement service; ANPA exec S Smith says Mirror demise is sign of changing times, not indus decline
Date: 20 October 1963
pub of '62 Annual vol announced by editor J C Gephart; vol has over 1/2 million entries and cross-refs; pub was delayed by newspaper strike
Date: 20 October 1963
By DAVID SYLVESTER
David SYLVESTER
Bacon, Francis (Guggenheim Museum)
Date: 20 October 1963
secondary schools require last-yr students to take course on Marxism-Leninism, Govt policies and world view of dialectical materialism
Date: 21 October 1963
rift over legis affecting their agencies linked