Former India hockey captain and coach Vasudevan Bhaskaran calls for more transparency in the IHF's functioning.
Capping days of frenetic confabulations and suspense, 136 ministers, mostly belonging to the Congress in over half a dozen states, were today shown the door on the last day of government downsizing exercise to meet the Constitutional requirement
The ace defender has been appointed skipper for the upcoming three-Test series against Holland in Hyderabad.
The IHF chief said the Indian team is shaping well ahead of the Olympics.
India coach Rajinder Singh believes the Asian style of attacking hockey will be the key to success.
Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US, Sikhs have been at the receiving end of several attacks and verbal abuses as they are mistaken for Muslims because of their beard and turban.
She was accused of leaving the site of accident without bothering about the victims.
Polling was held on Sunday for 59 Lok Sabha seats in the sixth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha polls. Elections are being held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 seats in Haryana, eights constituencies each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, seven seats in Delhi and four in Jharkhand. Take a look at the famous faces who exercised their democratic right.
A development side, led by Neha Singh, will be looking for "valuable exposure" when it locks horns with teams like China, South Korea and Japan in a four-nation tournament.
Pakistan's Border Action Team set up the ambush and waited for long for the patrol team, while Pakistani troops attacked two forward posts with rockets and mortar bombs along the Line of Control in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Rajendra Kumar, Principal Secretary to Delhi CM Kejriwal, who was taken in by the CBI on Tuesday, left the investigation agency's headquarters around 10.30 pm on Tuesday night.
Coach Rajinder Singh said 'the aim is to unwind and train at the same time'.
Baljit Singh Dhillon and Mukesh Kumar were the notable absentees on the first day of the camp.
Agriculture Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal says she will return to Punjab only when Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is removed.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has sent a report on the role played by his deputy, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, in the just concluded Lok Sabha polls, in which she did not campaign, to the party high command.
Teams of National Disaster Response Force were trying to find out any person still trapped under the debris, officials said.
Indian hockey chief coach Rajinder Singh on India's chances at the elite six-nation tournament.
This was the third BAT action in Poonch this year.
Wearing multiple identities of religious preacher, science student and terror accused, the saffron robed Aseemanand, once known as the most wanted man in India, was the alleged link between the series of three bombings that ripped through India in 2007.
The party is faced with allegations of receiving "dubious" funds.
The identities and affiliation of the terrorists were yet to be known. Arms and ammunition had been recovered from the site.
Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party on Monday promised reservations to Muslims as well as Marathas, implementation of Rajinder Sachar committee report, and support for `statehood to Andaman and Nicobar' in its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections, released in Mumbai.
During the camp prior to the Asia Cup in Malaysia, gag orders were slapped on all the players, a move which evoked a lot of debate.
'The feeling that we were Olympic champions only dawned on us when we reached India.'
India take on China on Sunday in their opening match of the Asia Cup.
The Federation has apparently warned the players that talking to the media could cost them a place in the team.\n\n
Indrani dressed in a short purple kurta and leggings, with a bandhini green-purple chunni, sindhoor glowing in her mang, was receiving a drubbing from her lawyers for the facts she had revealed before the court on Tuesday while arguing the rejoinder to her bail application. She was insisting: "But he asked me for a motive!"
There were no surprises when the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced India's squad for the for the upcoming World Cup.
Neeraj is currently ranked fourth in the new rankings of the international federation.
Rajinder Singh, however, said he is concerned about the team's field goal scoring abilities.
Senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Giriraj Kishore, who was actively associated with the Ram temple agitation, died in New Delhi on Sunday evening following prolonged illness. He was 94.
The selection meeting to pick the Indian team for the Test series in Australia next month has been postponed, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said on Tuesday.
A rebel by nature, he lived the life to the fullest, donning different hats -- lawyer, parliamentarian, minister -- but was not a quintessential politician constrained by party lines.
