Speaking on the prize distribution ceremony of the 25th Nehru Sub-Junior Tournament, Joe Sebastian, Director (Sports), Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, suggested introduction of penalty corner tie-breaker before straight away giving the 5-stroke ...
Indian hockey players getting public adulation is not uncommon. Not so uncommon is them getting rewards and awards. Sometimes even individuals come up and make up where others have seemingly failed. However, the quantum of ...
India’s Under-18 coach Romesh Panthania expressed satisfaction and happiness over his wards’ performance at the recent Singapore meet where India finished runners up behind Australia. “The Singapore event was for the seniors. But we decided ...
Legendary player-coach Richard Charlesworth is all set to become India’s first foreign Technical Director. Sources in the Federation Internationale de Hockey (FIH), Indian Hockey Federation and also from Bangalore confirm the Australian’s appointment. Contract with ...
The 37th Junior Women National Championship was successfully organized by the Madhya Pradesh State Sports and Youth Welfare deparment at Gwalior between 27th September and 10th October 2007. The Railway’s hockey stadium, which sported a ...
Citing unfavouroable conditions existing in the women’s hockey circuit, the celebrated coach MK Kaushik refuses to take up chief hockey coach assignment. At a time coaches are vying with each other to get into the ...
Ever since national hockey coach Joaquim Carvalho rekindled the issue of recognition of winning sportspersons, the issue is cropping up here and there, though not in a manner of wild fire. From the Indian Olympic ...
A day in the last week was well spent. Olympian MK Kaushik, who is now Deputy Director (Sports) with Haryana Government, invited me to witness some of the hockey centres being developed by his department. ...
Last fortnight the Indian Women Hockey Federation convened an extra-ordinary Executive Committee meeting in New Delhi. They deliberated the issue of suspending Haryana based hockey coach Baldev Singh for his alleged ‘foul’ language used against ...
Two programmes concerning the Asia Cup winning team to be held in Mumbai in the first week of this month have been cancelled. The Bombay Hockey Association, which was supposed to organize a function for ...