NEW DELHI: Hailing Hockey India's yet another ground-breaking initiative, National Women's Hockey League 2024-2025, former Indian skipper Pritam Rani Siwach championed its significance for aspiring players who are looking to reach the national team set-up.
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Jan 13, 2021 12:01
NEW DELHI: With exactly two years to go, Hockey India and the Odisha government are gearing up to host the all-important 2023 FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup.
In 2023, the nation will host the competition for a record fourth time since its inception in 1971. The 2023 FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup is slated to be held in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela from 13 January 2023 to 29 January 2023.
Jan 07, 2021 17:01
NEW DELHI: Hockey India has introduced an open application and registration process for players under various categories on its Hockey India Member Unit Portal, similar to the open application and registration process for coaches and technical officials.
Jan 06, 2021 15:01
NEW DELHI: Looking to put behind a COVID-ravaged 2020, Hockey India is gearing up to host some high-profile events this year, starting with the 47th FIH Congress 2021, which was originally scheduled for 2020, but had to be postponed to May due to the pandemic.
Jan 05, 2021 15:01
NEW DELHI: Olympian Gregg Clark has been appointed as the new analytical coach of the Indian men's hockey team until the conclusion of the Tokyo Olympic Games scheduled to be held from 23 July to 8 August.
The South African, who was formerly associated with the Canadian men's hockey team as assistant coach between 2017-2020 is scheduled to join the national coaching camp later this month.
Jan 04, 2021 15:01
NEW DELHI: With only 200 days to go for the Olympic Games in Tokyo this year, the Indian men and women's hockey team captains believe this will be the most crucial time of their lives. They caution that the players should not let external factors affect their goal of achieving success.
Dec 24, 2020 14:12
MUCH HAS BEEN ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT Indian media's biggest executive departure of 2020. The resignation of Uday Shankar as president, The Walt Disney Company APAC and chairman, Star & Disney India, announced October 8, also marks the end of arguably THE defining decade in the evolution of professional Indian sport in the 21st century.
Dec 24, 2020 14:12
BHUBANESWAR: The wheels to host the prestigious FIH Odisha Men’s Hockey World Cup India 2023 started rolling in as Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday, December 24, announced a new world class hockey stadium in Rourkela city, which would be the biggest stadium for Hockey in India with a seating capacity of 20,000.
This is going to redefine the sports landscape in the region.
Dec 15, 2020 18:12
MUMBAI: Serial entrepreneur and film producer Ronnie Screwvala has announced that his RSVP Movies, along with Blue Monkey Films, will bring the story of hockey legend Dhyan Chand to the big screen.
Screwvala is collaborating with Abhishek Chaubey as director and Premnath Rajagopalan as co-producer for the biopic, which goes on the floors in 2021 and is slated to hit theatres in 2022.
Dec 11, 2020 18:12
ROURKELA: After the success of Odisha Men’s Hockey World Cup in 2018 and the scale at which it was hosted, FIH had announced last year that the 2023 FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup will be hosted in Odisha, for a second consecutive time, at two venues, Bhubaneswar and Rourkela.
Dec 08, 2020 13:12
LAUSANNE: The executive board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Monday approved the event programme and athlete quotas for the Olympic Games Paris 2024, which are centred on gender equality and youth.