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CHANDIGARH: Aided by Gurvinder Singh’s 51st minute goal, Namdhari XI defeated Punjab and Sind Bank 1-0 in the Jindal Steel Nehru hockey tournament at the Sector-42 Stadium here on Saturday. Air India managed its second ...

NEW DELHI: Injured drag-flicker Sandeep Singh was ruled out of the Champions Challenge I hockey tournament in Argentina next month and will be replaced by Diwakar Ram in the 21-member Indian squad. The former skipper, ...

PUNE: Rajpal Singh will lead India in the forthcoming Champions Challenge I hockey tournament to be held in Salta, Argentina from December 6-13, according to sources within the team. The sources said that the decision ...

INTERNATIONALHockeyFederation(FIH)presidentLeandro Negre on Friday defended the decision to postpone Hockey India elections by three months, saying he was confident the World Cup, scheduledtobeheldinFebruary-March2010,wouldremaininIndia. Regulations state that a country must have an elected body running the ...

Bickering continues: Coach Brasa and Hockey India take swipes at each other over Sandeep’s fitness “I don’t know where he is getting his information from. The president (Mattoo) is very clever because he knows the ...

Hockey India president A.K. Mattoo on Friday brushed aside confusion created over Sandeep Singh’s participation in next month’s Champions Challenge tournament and the 2010 World Cup, saying the ace drag-flicker had recovered from his back ...

The International Hockey Federation on Friday defended extending the deadline for Hockey India’s elections but re-asserted that India would be barred from next year’s World Cup if a democratically elected body was not put in ...

Hockey India (HI) president Ashok Kumar Mattoo appears to have brought about a temporary truce between the players and national coach Jose Brasa. Mattoo attributed the recent stand-off to a lack of communication. Both Brasa ...

The captain of the Kirori Mal College (KMC) hockey team was allegedly beaten by a group of youngsters on Friday evening, the police said. The victim, Yudhishtir Chowdhury, was beaten in the canteen of the ...

International Hockey Federation today defended extending the deadline for Hockey India’s elections but also asserted that India would be barred from next year’s World Cup if they fail to put in place a democratically elected ...