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Sports ministry announces cash award for junior women hockey team PTI NEW DELHI: The sports minister Jitendra Singh announced a cash prize of Rs 50,000 to each member of the junior women’s hockey team, who ...

Junior women team’s bronze-medal feat inspiring: Oltmans PTI NEW DELHI: The women team’s bronze-medal winning effort in the Junior World Cup couldn’t have come at a better time for Indian hockey as the feat has ...

Hawgood hopes junior women WC feat will inspire senior men’s team NEW DELHI: “Inspiration comes from different places and different persons”, according to Indian women hockey’s chief coach Neil Hawgood who hoped that the junior ...

Junior hockey World Cup bronze may mean nothing for girls Biswajyoti Brahma NEW DELHI: Winning the historic bronze medal in the junior hockey World Cup might have brought the Indian girls in the limelight, but ...

‘Cameo girl’ eyes the senior ranks Principal Correspondent Bigan Soy is still in a state of disbelief. Her 15 minutes under the bar during penalties in India’s bronze medal match against England in the women’s ...

‘We kept getting better and better’ Y. B. Sarangi The smile on captain Sushila Chanu’s face reflected the unexpected and unprecedented success the women’s hockey team had achieved by bagging the bronze medal in the ...

BANGALORE: India’s hockey mandarins have decided to abandon the Sports Authority of India, South Centre yet again and shift the camps to New Delhi. The reason: the worn-out Polytan turf. Hockey India secretary-general Narinder Batra ...

NEW DELHI: The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has turned down former Indian captain Dilip Tirkey’s proposal for increasing the number of teams in next year’s World Cup. Tirkey had written to FIH president Leandro Negre ...

Hockey India (HI) secretary general Narinder Batra on Sunday announced that each member of India’s junior women hockey team which won the country’s first ever bronze medal at the World Cup today will be rewarded ...

India Women beat England to win their first medal across all world cups after a gap of 33 years. India beat England 3-2 via penalty shootout after the regulation time of 70 minutes ended at ...