Mandeep Singh said that the Indian men's hockey team is preparing for the Tokyo Olympics after the initial disappointment of postponement.

Sushila Chanu said Indian women's hockey team is training and practicing on their own game during the coronavirus lockdown.

Namita Toppo said the Games delay gives them a chance to get one more year of experience to realise their dream of an Olympic medal.

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.

Salima Tete said there was a lot of scope improvement for the Indian women's hockey team in the one year before the Tokyo Olympics.

The Indian women's hockey team raised funds for the charity through an 18-day fitness challenge, which started on April 17.

Both the men's and women's hockey teams are currently at the SAI facility in Bengaluru, where they are carrying out their fitness drills and anaylsing their game.

Narinder Batra will continue as FIH President till next year Congress, which was postponed to May due to coronavirus.

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

Author Amish Tripathi launched Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta, which is the third installment of his wildly popular Ram Chandra series.

Author author Easterine Kire's book gives a vivid account of Japanese invasion in India through the northeast during World War II.

A book on the life and times of veteran actor Balraj Shani, written by his son Parikshit, will release in August.

The book, titled ‘Chandra Shekhar: The Last Icon of Ideological Politics’, has been launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and chronicles the political journey of former PM Chandra Shekhar.

Popularly known as Upanyas Samrat, Premchand is famous for his modern Hindi-Urdu literature.

Ruskin Bond was invited at a school event in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, where he shared insights about his literary journey with his fans among the students as well as the teachers.

In this deeply passionate, and angry memoir, titled 'Caste Matters', writer and academic activist Suraj Yengde peels the layers of the deep-rooted caste system in India to show you how this impenetrable social divide has for centuries crushed human lives and is very similar to other forms of oppression, such as race, class and gender.

This is the first and only detailed chronicle of the screen goddess' long journey in Bollywood.

Savarkar defined his idea of a Hindu resurgence in political terms, not religious.

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.

The newest book of The Pataala Prophecy series claims to have a good mix of adventure, mythology and mystery as series' teenager protagonists, Maya and Arjun, return to have a face-off with a new ruthless enemy.

The evolution of AI has brought us to the precipice of a fourth industrial revolution, and the worrying question being asked is: How will this affect our livelihoods? Will this revolution result in mass job losses?

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.

Roopkumar, who is best known for his songs "Maula mere maula" and "tujh mein rab dikhta hai", launched his book on Saturday in Mumbai.

Amitabha Bagchi won the award from a shortlist of six South-Asian novels.

In the last decade, detective Borei Gowda has appeared in two of Nair's books -- Cut Like Wound (2012) and Chain of Custody (2016) and have already won a strong fan base among crime fiction lovers in the country.

‘I am your fate,’ he continued – and disappeared at once.

The graphic novel is published by Campfire and has illustrations by award-winning artist Sachin Nagar. Author and screenwriter Banker's writing spans across genres of crime thrillers, essays, literary criticism and fiction

The authors argue that India has a major role to play in shaping the regimes the world in future, given its size, growing clout, and stake in practically every major multilateral organization.

Nehru said, whatever confusion the present may contain, in the future, India will be a land, as in the past, of many faiths equally honoured and respected, within a tolerant, creative nationalism, not a narrow nationalism living in its own shell.

Legendary actress late Sridevi's biographer Satyarth Nayak talked about many questioned that he had in mind to ask the actress but could not due to her untimely death in February 2018.

Esha Deol's book Amma Mia! talks about the difficulties of motherhood and how a woman can overcome them.

What makes things worse is that the government data and statistics fail to capture the essence of their everyday lives, and stories and narratives from the tribals themselves are conspicuously absent from mainstream literature.

During the launch of the book, Ahluwalia said that there is no doubt that we have entered a period of a very serious slowdown.

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.

Samuel Eto'o said Lionel Messi showed greatness even as an FC Barcelona B player.

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.

FIFA's medical committee chairman Michel D'Hooghe said he would propose to not play competitive football in the coming weeks.

Diego Maradona referenced his famous 'Hand of God' moment from 1986 World Cup and asked for the divine intervention to beat coronavirus pandemic.

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.

PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi said they respect the French government's decision but are ready to play Champions League games anywhere else.

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.

Gary Neville fears Premier League players would be at risk if football is rushed back amidst the coronavirus pandemic

Italy's football federation chief Gabriele Gravina warned that a decision to cancel Serie A season would signal "the death of Italian football".

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

European football has been hit hard by coronavirus shutdown and different leagues have separate ideas about resumption amid coronavirus fears.

FIFPro lauds the growth of women's football but called for protection during coronavirus pandemic.

On the 46th anniversary of India finishing joint winners with Iran in the Asian Youth Championship Bangkok in 1974, captain Shabbir Ali walks down the memory lane.

Cesc Fabregas said her great-grandmother is a super heroine but it would have been possible without doctors and nurses.

Lionel Messi revealed that his son Thiago talks about six players, including Cristiano Ronaldo.

Real Kashmir FC head coach David Robertson have been told to be on standby by the British High Commission for he and his family to go bck to Scotland.