The 59-year-old Batra is one of the few sports administrators to head a national Olympic committee while heading an important international sports federation.
'The feeling that we were Olympic champions only dawned on us when we reached India.'
The IHF president also ruled out the inclusion of Gagan Ajit Singh, Baljit Dhillon and Deepak Thakur in the team for the Champions Trophy.
The seven participants due to represent Pakistan at next month's Games have all been given wildcard entries.
The IHF announced the five teams to feature in the Premier Hockey League, Dhanraj Pillay to play for Maratha Warriors.
Mar del Plata in Argentina will host the women's tournament in 2007.
The German will return to Delhi today to prepare the team for the four-Test series in Pakistan.
It was India's third victory in the Akhbar El-Youm men's tournament.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
Gagan Ajit Singh, Deepak Thakur, Viren Rasquinha and Prabhjot Singh were dropped from the Indian squad for the upcoming Pakistan series and Commonwealth Games.
IHF president K P S Gill assured the former cancer-striken India player more aid after the India-Pakistan Test series.
You don't prep for 2028 but for 2040, or even 2044. Sustained sporting excellence is based on mass support, grassroots development, and funding - and it is this trifecta India needs to work on, systematically, asserts Prem Panicker.
The second edition of the League, to be played in January in Chandigarh, will see several innovations in the rules.
Former hockey Olympian Vece Paes says winning the Asian Games' tournament could kick-start a revival in the team's fortunes.
The Indian men's hockey team put up a clinical performance against Japan, demolishing the Asiad gold-medallists 9-0 for its third win in as many matches at the Hero Asian Champions Trophy in Muscat.
India will start their campaign at the Azlan Shah hockey tournament against South Africa on May 26.
India, Australia, Australia 'A' and Pakistan will play two tournaments between May 28 and June 8, in Perth and Sydney.\n\n
The Champions Trophy in December could be the last assignment for the India's German hockey coach.
Eight-time Olympic champions India continued to languish at the ninth position in the latest men's world rankings issued by the International Hockey Federation (FIH).
International Hockey Federation president Leandro Negre on Wednesday dismissed allegations that the two-match suspension of Indian striker Shivendra Singh for injuring a Pakistani player in the ongoing World Cup was a reflection of FIH's bias against the Asian players.
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) on Tuesday reduced the three-match ban on Indian forward Shivendra Singh.
Hockey greats Vasudevan Baskaran, M M Somaya and Mervyn Fernandis relive India's gold medal-winning campaign at the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
If you don't have power in a game you are masters of, the world will walk all over you, notes Shekhar Gupta.
The IHF dropped Gagan Ajit Singh, Viren Rasquinha, Deepak Thakur and Prabhjot Singh for the Pakistan series and Commonwealth Games
The IHF president defended axing of top players from the hockey team.
The gold medal-winning Indian men's hockey team will receive a cash reward of Rs 2.5 lakh each from Hockey India for their stupendous show at the Asian Games.
The Indian Hockey Federation on Sunday retained the 18-member team for the remaining four matches of the Friendship Series.
Australia and France made the quarter-finals of the Hero FIH Junior Men's World Cup after registering contrasting victories in their respective Pool B matches today at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi on Sunday.
'Terrorism and sports can't go along and Pakistan should understand that'
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
India were drawn against their Pakistan for an away Asia-Oceania Zone Group 1 fixture.
The Pakistan Wrestling Federation on Tuesday claimed that its national team has been denied visa by the Indian High Commission for the upcoming Asian Championship scheduled to be held in New Delhi from May 10-14.
The Indian women's hockey team lifted its maiden Asian Champions Trophy title with a thrilling 2-1 win over China in the final, in Singapore on Saturday.
The team management in London was told that Sardar should come to Leeds for questioning by the Yorkshire police.
A golden dream unfulfilled for over 30 years remained just that in women's hockey but India equalled its best ever medal haul as sailors joined the assorted contributors to the country's tally at the 18th Asian Games, on Friday.
Seventy two years ago, a newly independent India ventured to hold the the first Asian Games in Delhi with meager resources.
India's schedule on Day 3 of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on July 31, Sunday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
In a tit-for-tat response, Sports Ministry has virtually prompted the Government to pull out from upcoming sporting events in India, who decided against touring Pakistan for a cricket series citing a diplomatic stand-off following the recent Mumbai terror attacks.
