Regular skipper Rani Rampal misses the tournament as she is currently undergoing rehabilitation in Bengaluru. Meanwhile, Deep Grace Ekka has been named as the vice-captain of Indian team.
Ngangom Dingko Singh, Asian Games gold-medallist and an Arjuna award-winning boxer, aged 42, died of liver cancer in June this year.
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik led the felicitation of men’s and women’s teams for their stellar show at the Tokyo Olympics. Men’s team won bronze, while women finished creditable 4th
The family of Vandana Katariya, who scored four goals during the Olympics, were at the receiving end of allegedly casteist slurs from few people
The Indian women's team came tantalising close to a medal Tokyo Olympics and finished fourth after losing 3-4 to defending champions Great Britain
India women will take on Great Britain in the bronze medal match, while the Netherlands will play Argentina in the final
After making their maiden Olympic semi-final, India women look to sign off with a medal. See India vs Great Britain live
The ability to bounce back from seemingly impossible situations and the temerity to look the mighty in their eye reflected in India's hockey showing in Tokyo 2020
Despite taking the lead, Indian girls went down 2-1 against Argentina in a Tokyo 2020 semifinal match
In Tokyo 2020 on Monday, India's women's hockey team beat Australia 1-0 but the shooters failed again.
Indian women's best performance at the Olympics came way back in the 1980 Moscow Games, where they finished fourth out of six teams.
After a 1-5 drubbing at the hands of world no.1 Netherlands, the Indians lifted their game but it was not enough to get past world no.3 Germany
India had last week announced a 16-member team for the Tokyo Games but refrained from naming the captain although it was more or less certain that Rani Rampal would lead the side
All seven tested positive following the Indian women's hockey core group's return to the national camp in Bengaluru on April 24 after a 10-day break.
All the players and support staff are asymptomatic and have been placed under observation at the SAI centre.
Both men's and women's team skippers Manpreet Singh and Rani Rampal feel in the last couple of years, India has made steady progress.
The winner will be decided by public voting, open till February 24. And the winner will be announced on March 8, the International Women's Day
The women's side will become the first of India's hockey teams to resume international matches during the tour of Argentina
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.