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After uproar, govt announces Rs 1.5 lakh award for victorious hockey team To calm infuriated players who rejected Hockey India’s paltry prize of Rs 25,000 for winning the Asian Champions Trophy, an embarrassed Sports Minister, ...

‘That’s insult, not a reward’ A day after the victorious men’s hockey team trashed the “paltry amount” offered by Hockey India to the Asian Champions Trophy-winning squad, hockey greats lashed out at the federation, saying, ...

Meet the other Yuvraj He is the Yuvraj of Indian hockey but unlike his much more well known cricketing counterpart, Yuvraj Walmiki’s life wasn’t exactly a bed of roses before Asian Champions Trophy happened. From ...

Hockey: FIH googly leaves sports minister stumped The International Hockey Federation (FIH) had played its card to perfection. A couple of hours before its president Leandro Negre’s meeting with sports minister Ajay Maken, they announced ...

Asian Champion Indian hockey team rejects meagre prize money The Indian hockey team on Wednesday rejected Hockey India’s cash reward for winning the inaugural Asian Champions Trophy, saying the paltry amount of Rs. 25000 each ...

CT would’ve been a good build-up for Oly qualifiers: Rajpal By Paritosh Pramanik NAGPUR, Sept 13: HIS cell phone kept ringing since he touched the Indian shores. His friends, hockey lovers and followers congratulated him. ...

Nobbs has the nose for the job M.S. Unnikrishnan Michael Nobbs could not have asked for a better start to his five-year stint as the chief coach of the Indian hockey team, as within six ...

Sreejesh: “I wanted to make my country proud” By Paritosh Pramanik NAGPUR, Sept 13 IT WAS a final and it was India vs Pakistan. And nobody in the Indian camp wanted to give any leeway ...

Sports ministry douses hockey players’ ire NEW DELHI: The sports ministry on Wednesday closed the stable door after the horses had bolted, announcing a cash award of Rs 1.5 lakh for each player and official ...

Players unhappy with HI ‘reception’ Gaurav Kanthwal, TNN CHANDIGARH: The felicitation party for the hockey stars on Tuesday night may not have had much worth remembering, but its portents were not good either. The insult ...