Category: Player Corner

New Delhi, Jun 1: The Hockey Journalists Association today urged Sports Minister Sunil Dutt to urgently grant financial assistance to ailing hockey Olympian Vivek Singh, who is fighting a grim battle against cancer. The scribes ...

THE Tejbir Singh doping scandal has entered a sphere of unwanted ambiguity with the two top bodies responsible for running hockey in the country _ the Indian Hockey Federation and Sports Authority of India _ ...

SATURDAY 24 Feb,2001: “Only today I came to know. Somebody in Doordarshan called me up and querried whether I could go to Mumbai and cover the Test match for them. I asked, what Test?. Then ...

Defendable defender Dilip Tirkey has been chosen for coveted civilian award Padam Shree. He becomes the 15th Indian hockey player to get the award since its inception in 1957. The annual award is given to ...

New Delhi: 19th March 2003: Let Sachin Tendulkar get other awards before one thinks about Bharat Ratna Extract: A leading political leader recently wrote to both President and Prime Minister of India requesting to confer ...

I was fortunate to witness the India-Pakistan classic here at Busan. Congrats for Indians for their first win over Pakistan at the Asian Games in 36 years. I think last win for India against their ...

22 Sep. 2002. It was very hot at 15.00 hours on Saturday at the National stadium in Delhi. Director General of Sports Authority of India braved the heat and was seen talking to the Indian ...

16 Sep. 2002. On Tuesday there was more than usual quoto of journalists to witness the test of strength between Junior and senior India at the Dhyan Chand stadium. Not that the practice match, a ...

VIEWS ON INDIVIDUAL PLALYERS WRITTEN TIME TO TIME ARE GROUPED HERE. THE VIEWS PERTAIN TO THE CONTEXT OF WRITING, CERTAINLY NOT THE FINAL JUGRAJ SINGH: The answer for many unanswered questions? Jugraj Singh, who endeared ...

Another feather in the cap of star forward Dhanraj Pillay. He gets the Padma Shree, a top civil award of government of India. ACCOLADES FROM HOCKEY ELITES: Mohinder Pal Singh(former captain): Such player as Dhanraj ...