Category: News Paper Articles

FIH plays strong disaffiliation card M.S. Unnikrishnan Even as hockey stuttered between lots of misses and a few hits, the Indian Hockey Confederation added to the chaos, demanding holding up of the funds due to ...

Rousing welcome to hockey player A CORRESPONDENT The Hindu Sreejesh, goal keeper of the Indian hockey team, being received at the Nedumbassery airport on Wednesday. Three days after the Indian hockey team clinched the inaugural ...

In India only cricket is doing well: Dhanraj Piyali Dasgupta, TNN Former Indian hockey captain Dhanraj Pillay said, “Let me clarify that it was not the sports minister, but the Hockey India Federation (HIF) who ...

We’ve to learn from BCCI: Rajpal Piyali Dasgupta, TNN The captain of the Indian hockey team Rajpal Singh says that the team’s feat of beating arch-rivals Pakistan is not being recognised by anyone. “The sports ...

No hockey training in Major Dhyan Chand sports complex Nikhila Pant & Suruchi Sharma, TNN On Tuesday evening, India’s national sport – hockey – plunged into a controversy when members of the national hockey team ...

FIH applying pressure tactics: Harendra Sudhanshu Bisen, TNN Harendra Singh blasted sports minister Ajay Maken for hurrying up the merger talks. (TOI Photo) NAGPUR: With the International Hockey Federation (FIH) sending shockwaves by striping India ...

Sandeep, Sardara appeal against ban NEW DELHI: Handed out a two-year ban from the game for indiscipline, India’s ace drag-flicker Sandeep Singh and midfielder Sardara Singh on Thursday appealed against the sanctions imposed on them ...

MP CM announces reward of Rs 1 lakh for hockey players MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced a reward of Rs one lakh each to the members of the Indian hockey team which won ...

Toe the line or face the music S.THYAGARAJAN Leandro Negre was forthright. He stated without a hint of ambiguity the perception of the FIH to the mess that hockey is in India. “Toe the line ...

‘Players should be paid match fee’ G. VISWANATH M.M. Somaya feels that the time is ripe for India’s hockey players to be paid a match fee between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 1 lakh and bonuses ...