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Indian Junior Women's Team Win 3-Nations Hockey Tournament Despite Loss to Australia in Final Game

The Indian junior women's team lost 1-2 in their final game of the 3-Nations hockey tournament to Australia but still finished top of the points table.




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FIH Unveils New Match-based World Ranking System for 2020

International Hockey Federation changed the world ranking system from tournament-based calculation to match-based.




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Hockey India Directs AIPSCB to Withdraw Punjab Police, J&K Police From All India Police Championship

Hockey India had banned Punjab Armed Police, Jalandhar and J&K Police Hockey teams for three months for indiscipline and unruly behaviour.




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Good Performance in 2020 Jr Asia Cup Priority for Indian Junior Men's Hockey Team

The Indian Junior men's hockey team will be vying to qualify for the 2021 FIH Junior World Cup at the Asia Cup next year.




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India Women's Hockey Team Defender Sunita Lakra Announces Retirement Due to Injury Breakdown

Sunita Lakra cited knee injury, that would require another surgery, and a lengthy recovery process for her decision to retire.




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India Announce FIH Hockey Pro League Squad, Chinglensana Singh Kangujam and Sumit Return

Chinglensana Singh Kangujam and Sumit returned to the Indian Men's Hockey Team as Hockey India announced the 20-member squad for the FIH Hockey Pro League 2020.




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SAI and Hockey India Launch 7 High Performance Hockey Centres Across the Country

Sports Authority of India and Hockey India announced the establishment of the high performance hockey centres in seven different locations across India.




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FIH Award a Huge Motivation to Work Harder for Country: Vivek Sagar Prasad

Vivek Sagar Prasad received the FIH Rising Star of the Year award.




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FIH Announce India as Hosts for Junior Men's World Cup 2021

FIH Junior Men's World Cup 2021 will be held in India, the International Hockey Federation announced.




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FIH Pro League: HI Announce 24-man Squad With Manpreet Singh Leading India against Australia

Manpreet Singh was named as captain as the 24-man squad was announced by Hockey India for the FIH Pro League clash against World No.2 Australia.




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Hockey India Contributes Rs 25 Lakh to PM Cares Fund for Fight against Coronavirus Pandemic

Hockey India pledged to donate Rs 25 lakh in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.




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Dhanraj Pillay Donates Rs 5 Lakh to PM CARES Fund in Fight against Coronavirus

Indian hockey legend Dhanraj Pillay contributed Rs 5 lakh to the PM-CARES Fund to aid in the fight against coronavirus.




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FIH Celebrates UN International Day of Sport for Development and Peace

The International Hockey Federation celebrated the United Nations International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, asserting the message of unity and support has never been more relevant with the world is facing a health crisis due to coronavirus pandemic.




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Coronavirus Impact: No International Hockey Events for India Till June

Indian hockey team, the senior as well as junior men's and women's, will not play international matches till June due to the coronavirus.




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Hockey India Donates Rs 21 Lakh to Odisha Chief Minister's Relief Fund to Fight Coronavirus

Hockey India made its contribution to Odisha Chief Minister's Relief Fund saying the state has always shown huge support for the sport.




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FIH Hockey Pro League: New Zealand Unable to Travel, Tie Canceled Due to Coronavirus

The New Zealand men's hockey team will not be travelling to India for the FIH Hockey Pro League due to the coronavirus pandemic




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Coronavirus Lockdown Has Brought Indian Hockey Team Together: SV Sunil

SV Sunil said that the coronavirus lockdown will help the Indian hockey team prepare well for the Tokyo Olympics.




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Wife, Daughter In Same City But Coronavirus Lockdown Keeping SV Sunil At Training Base

SV Sunil's wife Nisha and their one-year old daughter Shanvita are just 20km away from the SAI Centre in Bengaluru, where he is training woith the Indian hockey team.




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Indian Women's Hockey Team to Raise Funds to Feed Poor and Migrant Families During Coronavirus Lockdown

Indian women's hockey players will give a new challenge on social media and tag 10 people on their social media handles, to take up the challenge and donate Rs 100 to the fundraiser.




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FIH Hockey Pro League Season 2 Extended By One Year, To Run Through June 2021 Now

FIH Pro League has been postponed by one year till June 2021 after a slew of matches were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.




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FIH Hockey Pro League Season 2 Extended Until June 2021 Due to Coronavirus

The FIH has also announced that the window for season 3 of the league will be from September 2021 to June 2022.




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Coronavirus Delay Gives Indian Men's Hockey Team Chance to Utilise Time and Give it Best in Tokyo, Says Varun Kumar

Indian men's hockey team defender Varun said they were not sure when they would be able to resume outdoor training due to coronavirus crisis.




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Will Use Next 12 Months to Earn Place in Tokyo Olympics-bound Squad: Dilpreet Singh

Dilpreet Singh revealed it was chief coach Graham Reid's pep talk during a junior training camp that motivated him to work hard and reclaim his spot in the senior side.




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Team Has Become Much More Aggressive Under Graham Reid: Gurinder Singh

Gurinder Singh said Graham Reid spent time on the development of each player during the national camp last November.




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Hockey India Condoles Demise of Kodava Hockey Festival Co-Founder Pandanda Kuttappa

Hockey India condoled the demise of Pandanda Kuttappa, a legendary figure in the region of Coorg who gave the sport the world famous Kuttani, family hockey tournament.




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Senior Hockey Players to Undergo Coaching Course Online Amid Coronavirus Lockdown

The basic coaching course will be attended by 32 senior men and 23 senior women core probables on May 11 and 15 respectively.




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Book Excerpt: Mahabharata Retold in ‘Shakuni: Master of the Game’

This re-telling of Mahabharata from the perspective of Shakuni delves into how the heir of Gandhara used the Padavas and the Kauravas as pawns in an intricate and clever power play that culminated in an epic battle of 18 days.




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Book Excerpt: Amitav Ghosh Tackles Climate Change And Migration In 'Gun Island'

Weaving old folklores with modern-day adventures, Ghosh again tries to draw readers attention towards climate change.




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Amitav Ghosh on New Book Gun Island, Our Changing World and the Uncanniness of It All

Amitav Ghosh says he feels fortunate and privileged to be able to make a living from writing, which according to him, is the only thing he knows how to do.




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Jim Corbett Birth Anniversary: 5 Books by British Hunter-author You Must Read

On his 144th birth anniversary, here's taking a look at 5 books written by Jim Corbett that you must read.




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Booker Prize 2019 Longlist: Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood on the List, Winner to be Announced in October

Before the final announcement of the Booker Prize 2019 winner, here’s a list of all the books that has been nominated this year.




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When Amitav Ghosh Found Climate Change to be Stranger Than Fiction

Ghosh's novel leaps from the United States, to the Sundarbans mangrove forest between India and Bangladesh, to Italy, places where rising temperatures and water levels have uprooted human and animal lives and upended political systems.




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Shiv Sena's Anti-Bihari Rhetoric Has an Underlying Irony That Traces its Origin to Bal Thackeray’s Father

While his son Bal Thackeray and grandsons Uddhav and Raj were to take a political position against north Indians, Prabodhankar traced the roots of Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu caste -- the same caste to which the Thackeray family belongs -- to Bihar.




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Book on RAW's Founding Father to Hit Stands Soon

A new book on the life and times of legendary spymaster RN Kao, founding father of India's external intelligence agency Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), will hit the stands soon, announced publishing house Bloomsbury.




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Colours of the Mountain Author Da Chen Dies at 57

Chen died of lung cancer on December 17, his wife, Dr Sun-Ling Chen, told a publication on Tuesday from the family's home in Temecula, California.




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Jeevan Samvad, Hindi Series on Depression and Suicide, Launched in Book Form

News18.com Hindi editor Dayashankar Mishra has written about mental health issues while combining both an Indian traditional viewpoint and the modern aspect.




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Tahira Kashyap to Launch New Book 'The 12 Commandments of Being a Woman'

On International Women's Day, author-filmmaker Tahira Kashyap Khurrana announced on Instagram that she will be writing her new book The 12 Commandments of Being A Woman.




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Ex-Refugee Bayern Munich Star Alphonso Davies Raises Funds for Those Forced to Flee

Alphonso Davies, who started his life in a refugee camp in Ghana, said it would be disastrous if coronavirus reaches any of the world's many refugee camps.




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Divided Beliefs Over Ligue 1 Fate After French PM's Announcement, League Delays Decision

French Football Federation president felt the Ligue 1 season was over while Lyon president was not sure of the same. The league is yet to take a decision.




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Fresh Questions Over Football Restart as New Research Says Players at Risk of Covid-19 Spread to Lungs

The research suggests due to strenuous exercise, elite athletes are more likely to inhale Covid-19 particles and direct them to the lower areas of the lung.




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Italian Footballers' Union Furious at Government's Ban on Team Training

Italian footballers' union was unhappy with PM's announcement that individual athletes could begin training from May 4 but no team sports' practice could take place.




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Manchester United Wont Travel to India for Pre-season: Report

Manchester United were reportedly planning to play a match against East Bengal in Kolkata.




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Lionel Messi is So Fast; That Free Kick was Unbelievable: Liverpool's Jordan Henderson

Jordan Henderson praised FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi for his pace and said that the sublime free kick the Argentine scored in the Champions League against Liverpool left him speechless.




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ISL Side Odisha FC Announces Contract Extension For Shubham Sarangi Till 2023

Shubham Sarangi extension of his contract with Odisha FC and will stay on at the Indian Super League side till 2023.




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Manchester United Given Permission to Trial Safe Standing at Old Trafford

Manchester United insist work can be carried out on the project whilst respecting social distancing guidelines to ensure it is ready for when fans can return.




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Former Leeds United and England Defender Trevor Cherry Dies Aged 72

Trevor Cherry was a member of the Leeds United side that won the English top flight in 1973-74.




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Swiss Football League Set to Resume on June 8 Behind Closed Doors

With the Swiss government easing coronavirus lockdown, they plan to allow the football season to restart in June.




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Dutch Coach Gertjan Verbeek Quits A-League's Adelaide United Over Uncertainty Around Covid-19 Impact

Gertjan Verbeek said his future as the head coach at Adelaide United was 'insecure' given the situation around the coronavirus pandemic.




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Indian Football Legend Chuni Goswami Dies Aged 82 Due to Cardiac Arrest

Former India football captain Chuni Goswami, passed away in Kolkata due to cardiac arrest.




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India's Greatest! Football Will Always Remember Him: AIFF Leads Tributes for Chuni Goswami

Indian football mourned one of it's greatest heroes Subimal 'Chuni' Goswami, who passed away in Kolkata after suffering a cardiac arrest.