Punjab XI from Lahore will be seen in action in the 43rd edition of the premier hockey tournament, commencing at the Mahindra stadium in Mumbai on Monday.
The Pakistan hockey players were in for a shock when the Shiv Sena workers protested at the Bombay Hockey Association (BHA) stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.
24 teams are in the fray for western India's leading tournament.
A series of felicitations, including an invitation from President Pratibha Patil, awaits the Asia Cup winning team.
'Indian hockey will lose out on one of its most important nurseries of good hockey talent.'
The five-time champions cited lack of players to field a team for the tournament.
The Bombay Hockey Association ,in turn, wants help to relocate its own premises within the Churchgate railway station periphery.
The Bombay Hockey Association has been served a notice by the government to vacate their premises by Monday morning
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Hockey India to hold elections for its executive body but restrained it from implementation of the results. A Bench, comprising Justices Altmas Kabir and A K Patnaik, stayed the Bombay and the Delhi high court orders restraining it from conducting elections scheduled for July 28 and posted the matter for further hearing on August 19.
'What's sad today is that there are so many people who cannot find work, not because the country is devoid of that opportunity, but because we are not doing enough in the country.'
'I am a gadha (donkey)! But God has been on my side and I have managed to produce players,' Dronacharya Awardee Merzban Patel tells Laxmi Negi/Rediff.com.
Seventy two years ago, a newly independent India ventured to hold the the first Asian Games in Delhi with meager resources.
On this day 72 years ago, the Indian hockey team gave the country its first major sporting triumph as an independent nation when they clinched the gold medal at the 1948 London Olympic Games.
'I am not envious of those who are making millions. It's their era and I had my era.'
Both teams easily won their quarter-final league matches in the 109th Beighton Cup hockey tournament.
Such a person is rare in today's film world, notes Amit Khanna.
'Bobby Deol has a child-like quality which makes you love him instantly.'
'How does relief in the form of citizenship to a persecuted Hindu in Bangladesh put the citizenship of an Indian Muslim in danger?', asks Dr Sudhir Bisht.
Aditya Thackeray may want Mumbai's shops and restaurants to remain open 24x7 but the Maharashtra government won't be okaying it in a hurry, says Neeta Kolhatkar.
With the Supreme Court quashing the ban on dance bars in Maharashtra, bar-owners and dancers look forward to business starting once again, reports Neeta Kolhatkar. However, some issues need to be sorted out
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