Hockey India national championships were rescheduled to start on April 29 and continue till July 3 but have been suspended for now.

Hockey India has decided to restructure its domestic competitions by doing away with the categorisation as all teams will play in sub-junior, junior and senior national championships for both men and women.

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

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.

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.

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

Hockey India is carrying out interactive sessions for its registered technical officials and umpires, across six WhatsApp groups.

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.

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.

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

Indian women's hockey team player Navjot Kaur said she has been drawing and colouring with more spare time in hand amid coronavirus lockdown.

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.

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.

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

Viren Rasquinha also stressed on the importance of sports psychologists for athletes in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics

Ashok Diwan had sought help to return from the USA, where he is stuck because of the travel restrictions in place owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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

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

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.

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

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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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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.

On Shirley Jackson's 54th death anniversary, here's looking at 5 most acclaimed works of the author.

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.

Women Poet Saints of the Bhakti Movement broke free of the draconian Hindu code of life prescribed by Manu to find their religious and spiritual freedom.

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.

Cow and Company uses satire to take stock of India and its complex relationship with religions.

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.

On HG Wells 153 birth anniversary, here's looking at a few works by the acclaimed author.

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.

One of the biggest issue that Karkare's death brought to light was that of 'faulty' bulletproof jackets, which allegedly could not protect him and resulted in his death on 26/11.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Vichhoda moves through the bylanes of Kashmir and reaches corruption-ridden small towns of Pakistan to seek humanity in the most unexpected places.

Emily Hale eventually developed feelings for TS Eliot, but the poet writes that, as time went on, he realised "more and more how little Emily Hale and I had in common".