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Topic: Hockey

Ex-players call for ‘radical’ changes in Pakistan hockey as team fails to qualify for World Cup

‘Big upset’, rues Pakistan Hockey Federation. Former player Samiullah Khan says the country needs people with ‘no self-interest’ to manage the sport.

Jalandhar Cantt’s ‘election Olympics’ bucks Punjab trend, Congress’ Pargat beats AAP’s Sodhi

Sitting MLA and Punjab Sports Minister Pargat Singh beat anti-incumbency and polled 6,000 more votes than closest opponent and fellow hockey veteran Surinder Singh Sodhi of AAP.

In Jalandhar Cantt’s ‘election Olympics’, Congress’ Pargat battles fellow hockey titan from AAP

Jalandhar Cantt MLA Pargat Singh (Congress), who played hockey defence, is up against centre-forward attacker Surinder Singh Sodhi (AAP). ‘Loha hi lohe ko kaat ta hai,' Sodhi says.

Hockey legend Charanjit Singh, who led India to 1964 Olympics gold, passes away at 90

Former Indian hockey team captain died Thursday at his home in Himachal Pradesh's Una after suffering a cardiac arrest. He suffered a stroke 5 years ago and was paralysed since then.

India beat Pakistan 3-1 in Asian Champions Trophy, on track to book semifinal berth

Indian men's hockey team is leading their group & will face Japan in their last round-robin match of the tournament Sunday. India & Pakistan were joint winners in the last edition.

Punjab renames 10 schools in honour of local hockey heroes in Olympics bronze-winning team

The new names of the 10 schools, all located in the hometowns of the respective players, were announced by Punjab School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla Sunday.

With Tokyo Olympics, Indian hockey has gone back to the ‘bronze age’ with golden era in sight

India, hold the hockey high. With Tokyo bronze, national sport has just got its pride back.

Caste, ethnicity, religion – United colours of Indian hockey prove the game thrives in inclusivity

It's impossible to field an Indian hockey team that doesn’t reflect the diversity, the united colours, better than any other. Shows that a sport, or a nation, will prosper with growing inclusivity.

A Hindi news channel is good business. You don’t need to be an Ambani to understand that

Hindi news channels, unlike most English ones, sensibly begin their debates/discussions early evening – 5pm onwards – so they don’t interrupt or upset our dinner.

Indian women’s hockey team loses 1-2 to Argentina in semifinal, to play for Olympic bronze now

India will take on Great Britain in the third-fourth place play-off match Friday. The final will be played between Netherlands and Argentina.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.