Royal Wahingdoh FC notched up another three points after beating Sporting Clube de Goa 2-0.
The former India captain slammed the Indian Hockey Federation for its "high-handedness".
The ace drag-flicker netted all his goals from penalty-corners as Punjab routed Chhattisgarh in the National Hockey Championship.
The Punjab government is considering "decriminalising" drug use so that addicts caught with small amounts of narcotics are sent to de-addiction centres and not jails, a minister said in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
The ace Indian forward suffered a fracture in his nose during Sunday's match against Malaysia.
India scored twice in each half for a 4-1 win in the Hamburg Masters hockey tournament.
Punjab and Sind Bank trounced Air India 6-0 in the Dhyan Chand Cup hockey tournament.
The Indian camp in Beijing went into a tizzy on Wednesday following reports that Abhinav Bindra's gun sights were tampered with before Monday's 10m Air Rifle final at the Olympics.
The two veterans are sure to figure among the 26 Olympic probables, to be announced by the Indian Hockey Federation in Delhi on Monday.
Gagan Ajit Singh scored a brace in a 5-0 victory in the Premier Hockey League.
Baljit Singh Dhillon and Mukesh Kumar were the notable absentees on the first day of the camp.
India move in to the final of the three-nation invitational hockey tournament beating Pakistan 2-0 at the Perth Hockey Stadium.
They avenged their narrow loss in the first leg of the Hockey Australia Men's Challenge.
JCT squandered an early lead and had to settle for a 1-1 draw with Churchill Brothers in their forth-round I-League match in Ludhiana on Friday.
Chances of the Army major committing suicide has not been ruled out by the Dibrugarh police given that a depressing note was recovered from his abandoned vehicle
Defender Dilip Tirkey will lead the team for the four-Test series, starting on September 24.
In the day's earlier match, Tamil Nadu XI blanked Bombay XI 3-0 in the All India Beighton Cup hockey tournament.
They beat Indian Oil 4-1 in the final of the uru Tegh Bahadur hockey tournament.
The IHF president said he made the "mistake" of including the likes of Dhanraj Pillay in the team for the Olympics.
The mercurial forward and Baljit Singh Dhillon are among nine players named for a pre-Olympic camp in Cologne from May 27 to June 21.
Gagan Ajit Singh scored three minutes before the final whistle in a Super League match of the Nehru hockey tournament.
The 30-year-old blamed coach Rajinder Singh for his omission four-nation tournament in Japan and the fitness camp in Barog.
Gagan Ajit Singh's goal enabled India hold the Olympic champions 1-1 in the first match of the three-Test hockey series.
JCT defeated Viva Kerala 2-0 in the eighth round of the ONGC I-League at the Corporation Stadium in Kozhikode on Saturday to join Dempo Sports Club at the top of the points table.
Baljit Singh Dhillon scored twice off penalty-corners to give the cops a 3-0 win over Indian Airlines in the final.
Sandeep Antil's goal enabled the Marathas get the better of Chandigarh Dynamos in the Premier Hockey League.
Several senior players including Dhanraj Pillay and Baljit Singh Dhillon were not included in the 18-member squad.
The Indian Hockey Federation announced an experimental side for the January 8-18 tournament in Kuala Lumpur.
They beat Border Security Force 4-3 via the tie-break in the final to win their third Nehru Cup hockey title in a row.
Punjab Police beat Namdhari XI 3-2, while Bharat Petroleum edged out Air India 1-0 in the Nehru Hockey tournament.
Deepak Thakur and Baljit Singh Dhillon scored a brace each as the Indian hockey team beat a combined US senior/junior team 7-0 in the first of two friendly matches.
The former India captain said the team needs to maintain the good showing it dished out Down Under.
Jigisha, 28, was abducted and killed on March 18, 2009 after she was dropped by her office cab.
The self-styled Sikh preacher continued to be on the run for a week now following the police crackdown against him and his Waris Punjab De outfit.
Seven people, including two police officers and a terrorist, were killed as the Punjab Police's elite Special Weapons and Tactics team and the Indian Army were carrying out a massive operation in the Gurdaspur district to flush out terrorists who went on a rampage attacking a bus and a police station complex.
According to a senior police official, Amritpal and his aide Papalpreet Singh had allegedly stayed at the residence of Balbir Kaur in Patiala's Hargobind Nagar on March 19.
Kolkata's East Bengal scripted history of sorts when they secured a maiden berth in the AFC Cup semi-finals after holding Indonesia's Semen Padang 1-1, at the Agus Salim stadium in Padang, on Tuesday.
Ten ministers were inducted into the Mann-led cabinet on Saturday.
An Indian citizen has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiring to support terrorist attacks in India, including assassination of an Indian government official, as part of the Khalistan movement to create an independent Sikh state.
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