Category: News Paper Articles

Times of India: India’s Narinder Batra in line to become FIH president LAUSANNE: In a significant development for Indian hockey, national federation chief Narinder Batra has been nominated as one of the three candidates for ...

Hindustan Times: Sprinkler failure, few trainees; National Stadium no hotbed for Indian hockey By Navneet Singh The Capital’s national stadium is synonymous with hockey. The life-size statue of hockey legend Dhyan Chand at the entrance ...

Hindustan Times: Hesal: Jharkhand’s nursery of women hockey players By P C Jha Hesal is to Jharkhand what Mokhra Khas is for Haryana. While Mokhra Khas is a village of wrestlers – Olympic medallist Sakshi ...

New Indian Express: Back on domestic scene, Raghunath wiser after Games experience By TN Vimal Sankar CHENNAI: A 5-foot 10-inch man stood over the penalty corners awarded to IOC in the league match against Air ...

Times of India: Hockey coach Muhammad Imran: Once a hero, now a roadside vendor GORAKHPUR (UP): After churning out eight international and more than 50 hockey players, this coach is now selling track suits on ...

New Indian Express: Manpreet happy to be anywhere man for the sake of team By Ravi Iyer CHENNAI: Bharatat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), filled with quite a few India players, had just come back from ...

Hindustan Times: Former national hockey player sells tea in MP, to earn livelihood By Milind Laskhari & Ritesh Mishra Fate can be cruel. Ask Vijay Surve. At 60, the former national hockey player sells tea ...

Hindustan Times: Indian coaches to oversee National Hockey Academy By Navneet Singh NEW DELHI: The long-awaited National Hockey Academy has been set up here at the National Stadium with focus on building teams for future ...

The Hindu: Raghunath strikes in IOC’s second successive win Defending champion Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) survived a fright against a tenacious Air India before winning 5-4 in a Pool-A contest of the 90th all-India MCC-Murugappa ...

New Indian Express: Forgotten drag-flicker out to turn clock back By Swaroop Swaminathan CHENNAI: One of the security officials at Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium had switched off the floodlights. Another had proceeded to lock one of ...