India downed Pakistan in the final of the Men's Hockey5s Asia Cup.
Vandana Katariya scored from a penalty corner to help the Indian women's hockey team stun world number 3 Australia 1-0 in the FIH Pro League.
The team's fourth-place finish in the FIH Qualifiers dashed their hopes of Olympic qualification.
Top-ranked Netherlands reached the men's hockey final at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday with a much more comfortable 4-0 win over Spain than in the pool stage
A personal tragedy led Boby Singh Dhami to pick up the hockey stick; and looking back, he believes everything happens for a reason.
Hockey India ruled out the prospect of a foreigner being appointed full-time coach of the national team, insisting an 'Indian national' will be at the helm of affairs.
Simranjeet Singh and Rajni Etimarpu will lead the men's and women's sides respectively as Hockey India on Sunday named the Indian teams for the upcoming FIH Hockey5s World Cup to be held in Muscat, Oman.
Harmanpreet Singh will lead a 24-member Indian squad in the Europe leg of the FIH Hockey Pro League starting on May 22.
Asian champions India are placed in Pool C alongside Canada, South Korea and Spain. They start their tournament campaign against Korea on December 5.
Australia ended India Colts' unbeaten run at the Sultan of Johor Cup hockey tournament with a resounding 4-0 win in Johor, Malaysia on Wednesday.
Goalkeeper Nidhi stole the spotlight in the final, with three clutch saves in the shootout against Lihang Wang, Jingyi Li, and Dandan Zuo, helping her side prevail over the Chinese.
A "flat-footed" athlete, P R Sreejesh had a specific aim in mind when he decided to become a hockey player: securing 60 marks in annual examinations without having to study.
The Indian men's hockey team is looking to extend its impressive run at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, beginning September 23.
India will battle it out against the likes of South Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Japan and China in the Asian Champions Trophy.
Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan 4-3 in a pulsating third-fourth place play-off match to win the bronze medal at the Asian Champions Trophy men's hockey tournament, in Dhaka, on Wednesday.
Pakistan head coach Muhammad Saqlain on Tuesday said India are not playing 'structural hockey' as the two arch rivals prepared for their clash in the ongoing Asian Champions Trophy hockey.
Star drag-flicket Gurjit Kaur made it 4-0 by converting a penalty corner in the 10th minute.
Hyderabad Toofans registered a commanding 5-1 win over Vedanta Kalinga Lancers to move to second spot.
The Pakistan Hockey team will not participate in the 17th All India Baba Faridkot Gold Hockey tournament starting on Friday after they were denied visa by the India High Commission in Islamabad. The team was denied visa by the India High Commission at the last moment in view of last Saturday's serial blasts in New Delhi.
India has reversed its decision to pull out its hockey teams from next year's Birmingham Commonwealth Games and will compete in the multi-sport quadrennial event 'if they qualify', a Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) official said on Saturday.
India's Olympic qualifier hockey tournament for men will feature a team less, as Egypt has pulled out of the event due to financial problems caused by political strife in the county.
The Lal Bahadur Shastri four-nation women's hockey tournament starting in New Delhi is spiked before it could take-off.
The victory enabled the eight-time Olympic champions consolidated their position in second place of Pool A, with three wins and a loss out from four games, behind Australia.
India's other gold medals came in 1966 and 1998, both times in Bangkok.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lauded former India women's hockey captain Rani Rampal's achievements, saying her exploits on the field will be cherished for ages to come.
FIH president Tayyab Ikram asserted that the dynamics of the sport would not be compromised at any cost when they try out the proposed penalty corner rule.
Indian men's hockey team finish third...
The Kookaburras had pulled ahead twice in the game, thanks to goals by Tom Wickham, but the Netherlands managed to equalise through goals by Mink van der Weerden and Jeroen Hertzberger.
India's premier hockey tournament will be played over 22 days, from December 20 in Chandigarh, and have 26 matches.
Defending champions Indian Oil brightened their semi-final hopes with a 5-3 win over Hockey Bhopal in the quarter-final league of the 117th All-India Beighton Cup Hockey Tournament at the SAI artificial turf in Kolkata on Tuesday.
Former Delhi hockey player Chaman Lal Malhotra died recently because of some liver problems.
India have been grouped with Argentina, Australia, The Netherlands, New Zealand and South Africa.
From its inception in 1971 till 1978, the World Cup was held every alternate year. Then it was made a once-in-four years affair, beginning with the 1982 edition.
India beat Korea 7-2 in the final of the Asia Cup to notch their seventh straight victory in the tournament.
India beat Korea 7-2 in the final of the Asia Cup to notch their seventh straight victory in the tournament.
Around 176 players from India and across the world will participate in the World Series Hockey tournament, from December 15 to January 22, 2012.
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.
Ending the suspense over India's future in international hockey, the game's world governing body FIH on Saturday decided to conduct the Olympic Qualifiers in India next year and continue to recognise Hockey India as the National Federation for the sport.
The senior men's National championship, to be staged in Pune next month, was postponed due to the prevailing H1N1 conditions.
India, who have already sealed a semi-final berth, ended the round-robin stage of the five-nation tournament at the top of the standings with 10 points, ahead of Korea (6), Japan (5), Pakistan (2) and hosts Bangladesh (0).
