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Indian women’s hockey team kickstart fitness challenge to raise funds for migrant families

Revathi Krishnan -
The proceeds from the 18-day fitness challenge will be used to provide food and sanitiser kits to migrant workers, patients and slum dwellers.

Dhyan Chand — the hockey wizard who refused Hitler’s offer to join German Army

Samyak Pandey -
Dhyan Chand led India to the top of the Olympic podium thrice and scored over 400 goals. His birthday, 29 August, is celebrated as National Sports Day.

Prithipal Singh — once a ‘feared’ penalty corner specialist, now a forgotten hockey legend

Ratnadeep Choudhary -
On his death anniversary, ThePrint remembers Padma Shri Prithipal Singh, a three-time Olympic medalist.

Soldier, legend, inspiration: Remembering India’s hockey ‘Wizard’ Major Dhyan Chand

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
In a 22-year-long career, Dhyan Chand scored over 400 goals and was part of three Olympics gold-winning Indian Hockey teams. 

India’s greatest living hockey player says team has great chance at Asiad & Olympic glory

Shahbaz Ansar -
Three-time Olympic gold medallist Balbir Singh Senior feels with Harendra Singh as coach, the men’s team is heading back on the right path.

This tribal leader who opposed prohibition also led India to first Olympic hockey gold

Sakshi Arora -
Through his organisation Adivasi Mahasabha, Munda, in 1938, also raised the demand for a separate state of Jharkhand.

‘Soorma’ tells the comeback story of a hockey player but could be director Shaad Ali’s too

Amit Upadhyaya -
With a biopic on former Indian hockey captain Sandeep Singh, Ali brings freshness to an expanding sports genre by focussing on the struggle of the body.

Three sports stories

Shekhar Gupta -
Not for sports pages. Because their essence isn't sport, but power. And how failure to use it ruins a sport

Our hockey high

SGIN -
More than anything sports ministry, Indian Hockey Federation or even the afterglow of Chak De India have done to revive the game, the 2010 World Cup could signal a second innings in India.
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Opinion

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

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

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

Economy

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

Udit Bubna -
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.

Defence

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

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

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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