Deepak Thakur and Kanwalpreet Singh scored two goals each as India registered their second victory in the four-nation hockey tournament in Dusseldorf.
Twenty-one sportspersons, including cricketer Virender Sehwag, footballer I M Vijayan and hockey player Gagan Ajit Singh, have been named for the Arjuna awards 2002.
The Indian hockey team scored a morale-boosting 7-1 win ahead of the World Cup in Germany.
They avenged their narrow loss in the first leg of the Hockey Australia Men's Challenge.
Leading 3-0 by the 39th minute, India stumbled to let in two goals before regaining their composure.
India rallied from two goals down to win 3-2 ahead of the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament.
The IHF president said he made the "mistake" of including the likes of Dhanraj Pillay in the team for the Olympics.
Gagan Ajit Singh scored three minutes before the final whistle in a Super League match of the Nehru hockey tournament.
India lost to Germany 0-1 in their fourth outing of the Champions Trophy hockey tournament
Prabhjot Singh and Gagan Ajit Singh scored a brace each in a 5-1 victory in the men's hockey tournament at the Afro Asian Games.
They beat Universities and Mumbai respectively to enter the Super League stage in the Senior hockey nationals.
A 3-1 victory over Pakistan in the final gave India the gold medal.
Ravinder Gosain, 60, was returning home after attending a morning drill at RSS shakha when he was attacked.
Board of Control for Cricket in India president Sourav Ganguly said the two replacements in the selection panel will be picked by the end of this month.
The first phase of UP polls in 73 assembly constituencies on Saturday witnessed an "exemplary" 64.22 per cent voter turnout.
BCCI's Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) member Madan Lal said two new selectors will be in office by the time the national team's tour of New Zealand winds up early next month. Former India cricketers Rudra Pratap Singh and Sulkashana Naik are the other two members of the CAC, which has been tasked to find replacements for outgoing chairman of selectors MSK Prasad and his fellow panel member Gagan Khoda.
The seat sharing formula reached between the BSP and SP is not on the basis of who emerged stronger in the previous election.
Venkatesh Prasad and Sunil Joshi were on Tuesday shortlisted along with three others for the national selectors' job. Agarkar not being shortlisted also is an indicator that the Board is likely to stick to the existing zonal policy for the national selectors.
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Sunil Joshi replaced MSK Prasad (South Zone), who had an extended run after completing his four-year tenure. Joshi's selection from South Zone and Harvinder getting picked from Central Zone also shows that the Board has stuck with the zonal policy.
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India's squash players wrapped up a historic performance at the Asian Games, clinching an unprecedented men's team gold after the women's side settled for its first ever silver in Incheon on Saturday.
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