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No-hopers Pakistan to make up the numbers in Beijing Karachi: For a nation obsessed with sports, Pakistan has very little to boast about when it comes to the Olympics and even the most optimistic fans ...

THE 57-member Indian contingent for Beijing does not include a hockey squad as India has failed to qualify for the event in the Olympics for the first time. Great Britain put paid to India’s hopes ...

The Indian hockey team might have missed the bus to Beijing, but the Indian Olympic Association’s (IOA) ad-hoc committee for hockey is sending four coaches — M.K. Kaushik, A.K. Bansal, Harinder Singh and goalkeeping coach ...

New Delhi, July 31: In the first instance of administrative collision in the Indian Olympic Association’s ad-hoc committee to run hockey in the country, Aslam Sher Khan was on Thursday replaced by Ajit Pal Singh ...

NEW DELHI: India’s hockey bosses have fired chief national selector Aslam Sher Khan, three months after giving him the task of reviving the country’s national sport. “We have appointed former Indian captain Ajitpal Singh as ...

IS politics behind the sacking of Aslam Sher Khan from the post of chairman of the hockey selection committee? On Thursday, Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of the ad hoc panel running hockey after the the Indian ...

New Delhi: Junior India coach Ajay Kumar Bansal, who recently guided the team to the Asia Cup title in Hyderabad , has emerged as the frontrunner for being appointed the senior national coach. On Thursday, ...

BANGALORE: Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain College (BMJC) notched up a 6-1 victory over TES College in the Karnataka State Hockey Association inter-college tournament here on Wednesday. Naeemuddin (4th & 18th), Pradeep (24th & 30th), Hari Govind ...

Chennai: Andra Pradesh clinched the Dhanraj Memorial Trophy in the South Zone sub-junior girls’ hockey tournament at the YMCA College of Physcial Education on Wednesday. The Andhra team won all its three matches in the ...

A penalty corner goal by Karuppiah helped Central Excise, Chennai to down South Zone Police, Madurai 1-0 to move into the quarterfinals of the Rajamani- Kanagamani Ammal State level Hockey tournament, conducted by Reserve Line ...