The Sports Ministry is set to establish 1000 Khelo India Centres (KIC) at the district level across the country with the help of sporting champions, who will be remunerated for providing their expertise. The centres will either be run by a past champion or have them as a coach.
Australia's Jason Wilson scored a brace as last year's runners-up Delhi Waveriders defeated hosts Punjab Warriors 3-1 in the opening contest of the second edition of the Hero Hockey India League in Mohali.
Former hockey captain Dilip Tirkey said India would miss the services of experienced forward Prabhjot Singh in next month's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
A magnificent 60th-minute goal by Dabang Mumbai's Robbert Kemperman snatched victory from defending Champions Jaypee Punjab Warriors by a narrow 2-1 margin in the Hockey India League, in Chandigarh, on Saturday.
India beat New Zealand 3-2 in a practice match prior to Sultan Azlan Shah hockey.
Veteran forward Arjun Halappa has been appointed captain of the Indian team for next month's Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in Malaysia even as drag-flicker Sandeep Singh and Sardara Singh failed to find a place in the list of 45 probables.
With the nationwide lockdown in place to fight the spread of COVID-19, the first condolence meeting held on virtual platform. Banerjee had died on March 20 after a prolonged illness while Goswami succumbed to cardiac arrest on April 30.
The Indian junior men's hockey team thrashed arch-rivals Pakistan 6-2 in the Asia Cup final on Sunday.
Harmanpreet Singh struck twice as India edged past hosts Malaysia 2-1 in their fourth league match of the 5th Sultan of Johor Cup, Junior Hockey tournament in Johor Bahru on Thursday.
The mercurial forward and Baljit Singh Dhillon are among nine players named for a pre-Olympic camp in Cologne from May 27 to June 21.
The ban on him has been reduced by a match but Indian forward Shivendra Singh on Monday said even the lighter penalty amounts to 'injustice' as he has been punished for no fault of his.
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) on Tuesday reduced the three-match ban on Indian forward Shivendra Singh.
The two veterans are sure to figure among the 26 Olympic probables, to be announced by the Indian Hockey Federation in Delhi on Monday.
Hockey India on Friday announced an 18-member squad for the 11th South Asian Games, to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from January 29 to February 9.
World No 5 India won all five matches during the tour, beating Belgium 2-0 in the opening match, and registering 6-1 and 5-1 wins over Spain in the next two games, before finishing off their Tour with two more wins (2-1 and 5-1).
Dropped from India's scheme of things for Azlan Shah Cup, senior forwards Prabhjot Singh and Deepak Thakur today claimed they have been made scapegoats for the team's poor show in the recent World Cup.
Penalty-corner ace Sohail Abbas, goalkeeper Ahmad Alam, forwards Shabbir Hussain and Kashif Jawad have been left out of the 16-member squad for the Afro Asian Games.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
A day after the Ministry of Home Affairs allowed sports complexes and stadia to open without spectators, National Sports Federations were deliberating ways to facilitate training of at least the Olympic-bound athletes. The lockdown has been extended till May 31.
India blanked New Zealand 2-0 to start their campaign in the four-nation Punjab Gold Cup hockey tournament on a winning note. In the second match of the day, Holland defeated World and Olympic champions Germany by an identical margin.
India frittered away numerous chances and had to settle for a disappointing 2-2 draw against New Zealand in their second opening round group match of the FIH Junior Hockey World Cup at the Seng Kang Sports Complex in Singapore on Tuesday.
Mercurial forward Dhanraj Singh, Baljit Singh Dhillon and Jugraj Singh have been included among the 26-probables for the Olympics.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Frida
Bhopal went up 2-0 before the hardworking Karnataka team pulled them back.
Already assured of a place in the Rio Olympics, Asian Games champions India will start their preparations for the mega-event with the 24th Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament where they would face Korea in their opening match in Ipoh on Sunday.
Top-ranked India were held to a 1-1 draw by the brisk-moving South Koreans in the round-robin league encounter of the fourth Asian Champions Trophy hockey, in Kuantan, Malaysia, on Saturday.
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The Indian men's hockey team bounced back in style against Australia, beating the World Champions 2-1 to level the four-match test series at 1-1 in Perth.
The left-hander nominated nine people, including his Uttar Pradesh teammates Praveen Kumar, RP Singh, Piyush Chawla, India hockey goalkeeper P R Sreejesh, Board of Control for Cricket in India vice-president Rajeev Shukla, singers Shreya Ghosal and Sonu Nigam to take forward the Challenge and urged them to continue the campaign.
India chief coach Roelant Oltmans today said two yellow cards hurt the team badly and that resulted in its 1-2 loss to the Netherlands in a pool B men's hockey match at the Rio Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. "We were on the attacking side until we got two yellow cards, which was a gamechanger. You had to fight with one or two less. That's not only difficult to score a goal but it also took away a lot of energy from the players that I'm not happy about it," Oltmans said.
Joyce Sombroek, 29, is a practicing GP and says that with the outbreak of the Coronavirus, we currently find ourselves in a very special situation, as she treats patients affected by the virus.
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.
Forward Rajpal Singh credits the coach for the Asia Cup triumph.
Going into the title clash, World no. 5 India were clear favourites to lift their sixth Azlan Shah title against the 17th ranked Koreans.
The Left parties on Friday demanded that the Centre probe into the source of "hundreds of crores of rupees of black money" spent on the auction of Indian cricketers and that how a senior member of the government was associated with the "'outrageous gambling".
Drag flicker Diwakar Ram's brace helped India beat Japan 2-0 and start their Junior Asia Cup title defence on a winning note at the Gachibowli hockey stadium in Hyderabad on Friday.
The ace drag-flicker was named among 29 probables for the three-nation hockey tournament.
Riding on two goals by Diwakar Ram, India made a fine rally from one goal deficit to outclass lowly Canada 3-1 and keep themselves in contention in the Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in Ipoh on Sunday.
Indian eves suffered a severe jolt in their Olympic hockey qualifying campaign when they lost 1-2 to Netherlands Antilles in Kazan on Sunday.
Hockey Australia announced a strong 18-member team for the World Cup, in Monchengladbach, Germany, from September 6 to 17.
