Jasjeet Kaur led the onslaught with three goals as a ruthless India steamrolled Singapore 13-0 to open their women's Asia Cup hockey campaign in style at the Queen Sikrit Sports Centre in Bangkok on Thursday.
Defending champions Indian Railways scored five goals in each half to spank Uttar Pradesh 10-1 and become the first team to enter the semi-finals of the second Hockey India Senior Women's National Championship at the Aish Bagh Hockey Stadium in Bhopal on Sunday.
The profligate forwards of the Indian women's hockey team squandered numerous sitters but still managed a comfortable 3-1 win against Russia in their first match of the Olympic Qualifier in Kazan on Saturday.
Two youths, who escaped after attacking lawyer and activist Prashant Bhushan, were arrested in New Delhi on Thursday morning, said the police. Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga and Vishnu Verma were apprehended from a place near Baba Kharak Singh Marg, they said. Bagga had on Wednesday said he would surrender in a local court. One Inder Verma, who claimed to be the president of the Delhi unit of Sri Ram Sene, was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the incident.
Saba Anjum struck two goals as India registered a 4-1 victory over Canada in the women's Junior World Cup Hockey tournament
The Indian women's hockey team beat Thailand 16-0 in the Asia Cup in Hong Kong.
A small-time transporter, who slapped Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar days after assaulting former Telecom Minister Sukhram, was sent to Tihar Jail by a Delhi court on Friday.
Nationalist Congress Party workers on Friday attempted to assault a small-time transporter, who had slapped Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, in a court complex when he was taken for remand proceedings.
Captain Surinder Kaur scored four goals as India thrashed a hapless Trinidad and Tobago 7-0 in a pool A match to stay in the hunt for a semi-final spot in the women's hockey event of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi on Friday.
India beat Singapore 16-0 to top Pool A in the women's Asia Cup hockey tournament.
A Delhi court on Saturday reserved for April 26 its order on summoning Army Chief Gen V K Singh and four others named as accused in a criminal defamation case filed by former Lt Gen Tejinder Singh who had denied having made Rs 14 crore bribe offer to him to strike a defence deal.
The dismal show by the Indian women'team continued at the FIH Women's Champions Challenge 1 hockey tournament in Dublin, Ireland as they lost 0-2 to South Africa in a 5-8 position match, on Saturday.
India whipped lowly Hong Kong 7-0 to keep their hopes alive for a podium finish in the women's hockey competition at the Asian Games.
Images from Day 1 of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games.
Reigning silver medalists India were held to a 1-1 draw by lowly Scotland in their opening Pool A match of the women's hockey event at the Commonwealth Games, at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium on Monday. The Indians fought back from a 0-1 deficit and scored through Jasjeet Kaur Handa (45th minute) after Scotland took the lead in the third minute from a Holly Gram field goal.
The Indian women's hockey team notched up its best World Cup finish in 32 years by signing off ninth after a thrilling 4-3 win over South Africa in the classification match in Rosario.
The Indian women's hockey team ended a three-match losing streak by upstaging Japan 2-0 in its penultimate pool match at the FIH World Cup at the Jockey Club in Rosario, Argentina, on Sunday. The team -- which was convincingly beaten in their first three matches by the Netherlands, Australia and Germany -- led 1-0 at half-time, with Rani Rampal scoring in the 14th minute.
It was double delight for the Indian women's hockey team as they edged out Korea 3-2 to sail into the Asia Cup final, which also assured them a berth in the 2010 World Cup in Argentina.
India drubbed Italy 5-0 in their second match of the Indira Gandhi International Gold Cup hockey tournament.
Indian went down 2-4 to China in the third place play-off match at the women's Asia Cup.
India went down 2-4 to China in the league match of the women's Asia Cup hockey tournament.
A last-minute goal enabled Japan hold India 1-1 in the second outing of the four-match Friendship hockey series between the two countries.
Sarita Lakra scored two goals as India defeated Scotland 3-1 to capture 11th place in the women's Junior World Cup Hockey tournament
The draw put the Indians out of the reckoning for honours in the junior World Cup hockey tournament.
The hosts beat Japan 1-0 to win the 5th Women's Asia Cup hockey tournament in New Delhi.
Hockey India (HI) has lifted the nine-month ban on Gurbaj Singh with immediate effect in the wake of Punjab and Haryana High Court's order that termed the suspension of the senior player "illegal".
Bahujan Samaj Party MP Dhananjay Singh and his wife Jagriti, arrested in connection with the murder of their maid, were on Saturday remanded to two-day police custody by a Delhi court after police told a court in New Delhi that they have to confront them with recordings of CCTV footage regarding the identity of some unidentified persons seen in it.
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