ng FIH Hockey Pro League 2020 Live Streaming: When and Where to Watch India vs Australia Telecast By www.news18.com Published On :: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 11:18:37 +0530 FIH Hockey Pro League 2020: India will face Australia in the second game after losing the first 4-3. Full Article
ng Need to Be Consistent ahead of 2020 Tokyo Olympics: Harmanpreet Singh By www.news18.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 05:48:17 +0530 Harmanpreet Singh, vice-captain of the Indian men's hockey team, said that work is still left in some areas as the 2020 Tokyo Olympics nears. Full Article
ng Former India Hockey Player and Olympic Bronze Medallist Balbir Singh Kullar Dies By www.news18.com Published On :: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 06:54:44 +0530 Balbir Singh Khullar, a part of India's 1968 Olympics bronze-winning team, passed away at the age of 77. Full Article
ng FIH Hockey Pro League: 32 Players Called up for 4-week National Camp ahead of Germany and England Tour By www.news18.com Published On :: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 11:35:07 +0530 A 32-member core probable group for the men's national camp was announced by Hockey India, as they prepare for the tour to Germany and England for the FIH Hockey Pro League. Full Article
ng Indian Men's Hockey Team Achieves Its All-time Highest FIH Ranking By www.news18.com Published On :: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 11:45:56 +0530 Indian men's hockey team jumped a place up to fourth in FIH rankings after a solid show in FIH Pro League. Full Article
ng Manpreet Singh, Rani Rampal Bag Hockey India 2019 Player of Year Awards By www.news18.com Published On :: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 07:15:30 +0530 National team captains Manpreet Singh and Rani Rampal received a cash award of Rs 25 lakh each, besides trophies. Full Article
ng No Effect of Coronavirus, We're Training Hard for 2020 Tokyo Olympics: Manpreet Singh By www.news18.com Published On :: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 03:16:09 +0530 Indian men’s and women’s hockey team are preparing hard for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics at Bengaluru’s SIA facility despite the rise of the coronavirus pandemic. Full Article
ng Coronavirus Effect: Indian Hockey Players Work on English, Read Books and Engage in Team Bonding By www.news18.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 03:18:24 +0530 The Indian men's and women's hockey teams are locked inside the SAI centre in Bengaluru due to the coronavirus pandemic. Full Article
ng Here's How Former India Hockey Captain Viren Rasquinha is Keeping Little Daughter Engaged Amid Lockdown By www.news18.com Published On :: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 12:16:17 +0530 Former Indian hockey captain Viren Rasquinha came up with the idea of an obstacle course to keep her daughter occupied as well as fit during the coronavirus-lockdown. Full Article
ng Wife, Daughter In Same City But Coronavirus Lockdown Keeping SV Sunil At Training Base By www.news18.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 05:37:47 +0530 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. Full Article
ng Indian Women's Hockey Team to Raise Funds to Feed Poor and Migrant Families During Coronavirus Lockdown By www.news18.com Published On :: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 12:02:05 +0530 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. Full Article
ng Coronavirus Lockdown Hasn't Affected Our Goal Of Winning Olympic Medal: Mandeep Singh By www.news18.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 06:42:46 +0530 Mandeep Singh said that the Indian men's hockey team is preparing for the Tokyo Olympics after the initial disappointment of postponement. Full Article
ng Using Time To Introspect On Our Own Game: Indian Women's Hockey Team Midfielder Sushila Chanu By www.news18.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 03:57:25 +0530 Sushila Chanu said Indian women's hockey team is training and practicing on their own game during the coronavirus lockdown. Full Article
ng Great Time For the Team to Analyse Our Game, Says Simranjeet Singh By www.news18.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 01:53:18 +0530 Simranjeet Singh feels that during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown, the Indian men's hockey team are preparing to become an even better side for the Tokyo Olympics. Full Article
ng Getting Back to Rhythm After Coronavirus-Forced Break Will Take Time: Indian Hockey Team Player Sumit By www.news18.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:59:49 +0530 Sumit said the Indian men's hockey team was still eyeing a top 3 finish at the Olympics despite the coronavirus lockdown slowing things down. Full Article
ng Utilising Coronavirus Lockdown Time to Pursue Hobbies, Catch up on Netflix: Navjot Kaur By www.news18.com Published On :: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 01:57:55 +0530 Indian women's hockey team player Navjot Kaur said she has been drawing and colouring with more spare time in hand amid coronavirus lockdown. Full Article
ng Indian Women's Hockey Team Mentally Prepared to Face Challenges on Way to Olympic Medal: Salima Tete By www.news18.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 02:45:57 +0530 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. Full Article
ng Will Use Next 12 Months to Earn Place in Tokyo Olympics-bound Squad: Dilpreet Singh By www.news18.com Published On :: Fri, 1 May 2020 05:09:36 +0530 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. Full Article
ng Maintaining Fitness Will Be Biggest Challenge For Athletes: Viren Rasquinha By www.news18.com Published On :: Tue, 5 May 2020 11:22:18 +0530 Viren Rasquinha also stressed on the importance of sports psychologists for athletes in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics Full Article
ng Team Has Become Much More Aggressive Under Graham Reid: Gurinder Singh By www.news18.com Published On :: Wed, 6 May 2020 03:42:31 +0530 Gurinder Singh said Graham Reid spent time on the development of each player during the national camp last November. Full Article
ng Manpreet Singh Motivates the Team Through His Game: Nilakanta Sharma By www.news18.com Published On :: Fri, 8 May 2020 03:19:11 +0530 Nilakanta Sharma said Manpreet Singh motivates the Indian men's hockey team through his game. Full Article
ng Narinder Batra Gets Extension as FIH President Following Postponement of Body's Annual Congress By www.news18.com Published On :: Fri, 8 May 2020 11:08:38 +0530 Narinder Batra will continue as FIH President till next year Congress, which was postponed to May due to coronavirus. Full Article
ng Senior Hockey Players to Undergo Coaching Course Online Amid Coronavirus Lockdown By www.news18.com Published On :: Sat, 9 May 2020 04:44:17 +0530 The basic coaching course will be attended by 32 senior men and 23 senior women core probables on May 11 and 15 respectively. Full Article
ng The Emergency of 1975: 5 Books on Trying Times in Indian History By www.news18.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:30:24 +0530 Jawaharlal Nehru’s niece who was a fierce critic of the Emergency and of her cousin Mrs. Gandhi, is the author of the novel tells the story of two interlinked families in Delhi in the Emergency years. Full Article
ng Books This Weekend: Of Boardroom Shenanigans, Serial Killers, Controlling the Mind By www.news18.com Published On :: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 11:49:03 +0530 There's much to ponder over at the bookshelf this weekend. Full Article
ng Book Excerpt: Amitav Ghosh Tackles Climate Change And Migration In 'Gun Island' By www.news18.com Published On :: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 02:23:30 +0530 Weaving old folklores with modern-day adventures, Ghosh again tries to draw readers attention towards climate change. Full Article
ng Amitav Ghosh on New Book Gun Island, Our Changing World and the Uncanniness of It All By www.news18.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:47:02 +0530 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. Full Article
ng Easterine Kire's 'Walking The Roadless Road' Takes You Into the Heart of Nagaland By www.news18.com Published On :: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 12:58:08 +0530 Author author Easterine Kire's book gives a vivid account of Japanese invasion in India through the northeast during World War II. Full Article
ng Ernest Hemingway Birth Anniversary: 10 Famous Quotes By the Author By www.news18.com Published On :: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 10:13:04 +0530 To celebrate this incredible author’s 120th birth anniversary, we have compiled 10 famous Hemingway quotes that will leave you mesmerised. Full Article
ng Booker Prize 2019 Longlist: Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood on the List, Winner to be Announced in October By www.news18.com Published On :: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 03:27:20 +0530 Before the final announcement of the Booker Prize 2019 winner, here’s a list of all the books that has been nominated this year. Full Article
ng Jashn-e-Premchand: Here's How Mumbai is Celebrating the Birth Anniversary of the Renowned Author By www.news18.com Published On :: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 01:26:42 +0530 Popularly known as Upanyas Samrat, Premchand is famous for his modern Hindi-Urdu literature. Full Article
ng PD James 99th Birth Anniversary: 5 Books by English Crime Author One Must Read By www.news18.com Published On :: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 11:50:00 +0530 List of novels by PD James which is a must read for all those who have interest in mystery and crime. Full Article
ng Book Excerpt: Dalit Scholar Suraj Yengde Tells You Why 'Caste Matters' In His Latest Novel By www.news18.com Published On :: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 09:45:10 +0530 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. Full Article
ng Book Excerpt: When Rajnath Singh Refused To Give a Ticket to His Son for 2007 UP Polls By www.news18.com Published On :: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 01:51:17 +0530 Rajneeti: A Biography of Rajnath Singh written by Gautam Chintamani chronicles the fifty-year long political journey of Singh from a Swayamsevak in the RSS to the defence minister of India. Full Article
ng Gau Mata ko Bhata: This Satirical Novel Tells Story of a British Chewing Gum Company That Uses Cows To Woo Indians By www.news18.com Published On :: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 05:46:30 +0530 Cow and Company uses satire to take stock of India and its complex relationship with religions. Full Article
ng When Amitav Ghosh Found Climate Change to be Stranger Than Fiction By www.news18.com Published On :: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 12:01:51 +0530 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. Full Article
ng Shiv Sena's Anti-Bihari Rhetoric Has an Underlying Irony That Traces its Origin to Bal Thackeray’s Father By www.news18.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 02:10:04 +0530 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. Full Article
ng Can Robots Take Away Our Jobs? Here's How Indian Employment Market Will Change with AI-driven Revolution By www.news18.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 05:21:38 +0530 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? Full Article
ng Book on RAW's Founding Father to Hit Stands Soon By www.news18.com Published On :: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 05:30:19 +0530 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. Full Article
ng Remembering Luigi Pirandello: 5 Works by the Celebrated Italian Writer By www.news18.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 02:47:49 +0530 Luigi Pirandello is considered to be one of the forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. On the writer's 93rd death anniversary, here's looking at 5 works by him one must read. Full Article
ng Haruki Murakami Holds Rare Public Reading to Mark Debut Anniversary By www.news18.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:51:34 +0530 Now 70 and one of the world’s most popular and acclaimed novelists, Murakami debuted with 'Hear the Wind Sing' in 1979. Full Article
ng Author JK Rowling Draws Criticism for Transgender Comments By www.news18.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 07:56:32 +0530 JK Rowling tweeted in support of a researcher who lost her job for stating that people cannot change their biological sex. A spokeswoman for Rowling said that the author would not have any further comment. Full Article
ng Renowned Hindi Author Ganga Prasad Vimal Dies in Road Accident in Sri Lanka By www.news18.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 08:10:22 +0530 Ganga Prasad Vimal wrote more than one dozen poetry collections, short story collections and novels. His last novel, Manushkhor, was published in 2013. He received several Hindi literary awards. Full Article
ng Stephen King Criticized for Comments on Diversity By www.news18.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 08:53:58 +0530 Stephen King's comments came shortly after the announcement of this year’s nominees for the Academy Awards, widely criticized for only choosing male directors and for an almost entirely white group of acting finalists. Full Article
ng Rudyard Kipling Death Anniversary: 5 Works by the Nobel Laureate One Must Read By www.news18.com Published On :: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:14:30 +0530 As we observe Rudyard Kipling's 84th death anniversary, here are five of his most remarkable works one must read. Full Article
ng Horror Writer Stephen King Quits Facebook Over Misinformation By www.news18.com Published On :: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 12:17:44 +0530 Stephen King has quit Facebook, saying there is too much fake news and misinformation on the platform. Full Article
ng Sridevi's Biographer Satyarth Nayak Says He Wanted to Know Many Things About the Bollywood Actress By www.news18.com Published On :: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 12:07:01 +0530 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. Full Article
ng Abhay Deol Proud of 'Baby Sis' Esha Deol Turning Author By www.news18.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 09:50:52 +0530 Esha Deol's book Amma Mia! talks about the difficulties of motherhood and how a woman can overcome them. Full Article
ng Remembering Abraham Lincoln: 5 Books One Must Read About the Former US President By www.news18.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:59:19 +0530 Lincoln, who was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865 while attending a play at Ford's Theatre, has been immortalized in the works of Gore Vidal, George Saunders, Herbert Donald to name a few. Full Article
ng Reviving the Indian Economy: Montek Singh Ahluwalia's Method of Combating 'Very Serious Slowdown' By www.news18.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 05:46:07 +0530 During the launch of the book, Ahluwalia said that there is no doubt that we have entered a period of a very serious slowdown. Full Article