1 hour ago
Pakistan won the first Hockey World Cup
First World Cup - Barcelona, Spain -Thanks to initiatives by Pakistan and India, the International Hockey Federation - decided in October 1969 to organise a World Cup once every two years -. The first World Cup was allotted to Pakistan in 1971, but was shifted to the Real Polo Club in Barcelona, Spain, because of security issues in Lahore. At that time nobody had even thought of playing hockey on ... read more

10 months ago
'Azlan Shah win a small step in right direction'
New Delhi, April 13 - The Azlan Shah Cup victory is a small step in the right direction and the real test is how well can India perform at the New Delhi 2010 World Cup and the subsequent Commonwealth Games. That's how the hockey selectors and former players see the triumph at Ipoh where India won the Cup after an interval of 13 years. Former captain and now a selector Zafar Iqbal said India won ... read more

10 months ago
Mixed response to VHP shutdown in Pilibhit
Pilibhit -, April 1 - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad --called shutdown to protest young Bharatiya Janata Party - leader Varun Gandhi's arrest received a mixed response in this Uttar Pradesh district Wednesday. Although most of the shops in the main markets of the city remained closed in the morning, commercial activity resumed gradually as the day progressed. No protest demonstration was organised i ... read more

1 year ago
Leading sportspersons extend support to V.K. Malhotra
New Delhi, Nov 11 - Leading sportspersons Tuesday extended support to Bharatiya Janata Party -'s chief ministerial candidate for Delhi V.K. Malhotra and said his leadership and experience would be a boon for completion of delayed projects for the 2010 Commonwealth Games - in Delhi. 'Projects for the 2010 CWG are running behind schedule. With his vast experience and knowledge of sports, we feel t ... read more

1 year ago
Ad-hoc committee looking for a foreign hockey coach
New Delhi, Sep 26 - The ad hoc selection committee, set up by the Indian Olympic Association - to run the country's hockey affairs, is now looking for a foreign coach and for the time being made Harender Singh the coach in-charge of the men's team. IOA president and ad-hoc committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi after the committee meeting here Friday said former international defender Harender will ... read more

1 year ago
Indian hockey is drifting rudderless
Things were never so bad, even during the dark days of the power struggle in Indian hockey in the 1970s when the country's participation in the 1975 Kuala Lumpur world cup itself was in danger. There was no set-up as the Sports Authority of India then; so on a request by Raja Bhalindra Singh, the then president of the Indian Hockey Federation, Giani Zail Singh, the then Punjab chief minister, to ... read more

1 year ago
Selectors leave out Tirkey from hockey probables list
New Delhi, Sep 17 - Dilip Tirkey, one of India's finest defenders, was Wednesday left out from the list of 48 hockey probables for major international tournaments for the next four years. The five-man selection committee of the IOA ad-hoc committee headed by Ajit Pal Singh met here Wednesday and selected the probables with an eye on the 2010 New Delhi Commonwealth Games, the 2010 Guangzhou Asian ... read more

1 year ago
Asian teams miss out on hockey medal yet again
Beijing, Aug 20 - For the second successive Olympic Games, there will be no Asian team on the podium at the hockey competition. Asian champions South Korea, who had an outside chance of making the last four grade Tuesday, were beaten 1-2 and shut out of the semi-finals. Pakistan and China were already out of the reckoning. The Olympic men's hockey competition semi-finals, which are scheduled fro ... read more

1 year ago
Sansarpur, once India's hockey cradle, doesn't say 'chak de'!
Sansarpur -, March 14 - A few young pairs of legs do not let the dust settle in this Punjab village as they try to keep hopes alive for the country's national game - hockey. But they are just a handful. For Sansarpur, it has been a freefall from being universally recognised once as a cradle of the best hockey players internationally to being just another village ground where some boys also play ... read more

New Delhi | 2 years ago
'Chak de' rekindles hope for Indian hockey
New Delhi, Aug 17 - In a country that eats, drinks and sleeps cricket, a movie on hockey certainly bucks the trend. But when Shah Rukh Khan waves the magic stick saying 'Chak De! India', the audience stands up and applauds.Sans glamour, romance and even a leading lady, King Khan plays the Indian women's hockey team coach who boosts the spirit of the girls, trains them and leads them to success - ... read more