New Delhi: An 18-member Indian women's hockey team Saturday left for Rotterdam to prepare itself for the FIH Hockey World League Round-3 (semi-finals) to be held from June 13-23 this year.
The Indian women will play five matches at Rotterdam, including one against Dutch national side and four against club teams, from April 22-29.
The Indian team has qualified for the FIH World League Round-3 (Semi-finals), to be held at Rotterdam, in February this year.
The FIH World League also serves as a qualifier for the 2014 World Cup to be played in Hague, the Netherlands....
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05:00 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Ahmedabad: Indian women's cricket team, currently leading the three-match ODI series against Bangladesh 2-0 here, may not get a Cup for their efforts as the BCCI has not sent any trophy to felicitate the winning team. The last match of the One-day International series, which Indian eves have already won, is scheduled on Friday. The hosts had earlier whitewashed Twenty20 series 3-0 against the same opponents but didn't receive any...
06:47 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: With an aim to make the side physically and mentally fit, Hockey India on Tuesday appointed Matthew Tredrea as the scientific advisor of the senior women's team. Before being appointed with the Indian women's hockey team, the 26-year-old Matthew worked with the Australian professional Rugby League club, Newcastle Knights for almost two years as the assistant strength and conditioning Coach. Matthew has also worked on different assignments as...
04:06 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Ahmedabad: Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur's valuable unbeaten half-century and left-arm spinner Ekta Bisht grabbed three wickets as India beat Bangladesh by five wickets in the first women's ODI played on Monday. Opting to bat, Bangladesh scored 194 for nine in 50 overs with skipper Salma Khatun remaining not out on 75. For the Indian eves, Bisht scalped three for 27 while pacer Subhalakshmi Sharma got two wickets. In reply, an 83-run...
06:38 PM, Apr 08, 2013
India's women professionals are realising their career ambitions remarkably well and are far ahead of their counterparts in the United States, Germany, and Japan in some critical ways, according to a latest report. This is besides succeeding at the difficult balancing act that confronts the vast majority of working women around the world, head of a non-profit think tank Center for Talent Innovation has said. ...
02:40 PM, Apr 02, 2013
The left-arm spinner bowled superbly to restrict the Lankans to 100 for 8, which India chased down in 14.4 overs. With the play-off win they also qualified for the 2014 event. ...
01:37 PM, Oct 03, 2012
India will begin their campaign against Australia on September 27. ...
02:58 PM, Aug 20, 2012
London: A distraught women's archery coach Purnima Mahato says the only reason for India's disastrous performance at the London Olympics she could think of is perhaps their inexperience at performing on the big stage. Mahato told IANS on Thursday that she was as much puzzled at her wards' performance, particularly that of Deepika Kumari, as anyone else back home. Intriguingly, she now says that the archers should have practised back...
08:02 PM, Aug 02, 2012
London: Indian women archers have enough mental strength to create history at London Olympics as they have learned to soak in pressure, feel the two coaches accompanying the squad in the British capital. "We're hoping to create Indian archery history. The girls have already shown their admirable skills, all they need to do is to keep their composure," says women's archery coach Purnima Mahato. "Mental strength plays a very big...
01:28 PM, Jul 24, 2012
The Indian women's team suffered its second successive defeat to England women in the second T20. ...
10:54 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Anjum Chopra has also been dropped from the 15-member squad of the Indian women's team for the England tour. ...
05:51 PM, May 14, 2012
Jaipur: NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma on Saturday said the word 'sexy' should not be taken in a negative context as it means 'beautiful and charming', but her argument did not go down well with the BJP and women's organisations which termed her remark as shocking and demoralising for women. Speaking at a function, Mamta said that the word meant 'beautiful' and 'charming' so it should not be taken in negative...
08:12 AM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi: One in three Indian women between the ages 15 and 49 have experienced physical violence. One in ten has experienced sexual violence. These are the dismal findings from the latest National Family Health Survey. Deepa Dasmunshi, Indian National Congress candidate from Raiganj said, "Women atrocities are increasing rapidly. Figures higher in rural areas than in cities." According to the third National Family Health Survey nearly two in five...
07:59 AM, Aug 20, 2011
New Delhi: Thirty-five per cent of women in India face physical violence while 10 per cent of them suffer sexual violence from their intimate partners at home, according to a UN study. Thirty-nine per cent of men and women in India also think that it is "sometimes or always" justifiable for a man to beat his wife, the study carried out by UN Women -- a newly created body --...
07:39 AM, Jul 08, 2011
On this week's episode of The Week That Wasn't, Cyrus gets you the funnier side of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with Editors. ...
06:44 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Indian women's hockey coach MK Kaushik on Wednesday resigned after sleaze charges were labelled against him. ...
11:14 PM, Jul 21, 2010
MK Kaushik said the allegations were baseless and the truth will come out after the inquiry. ...
09:35 AM, Jul 21, 2010
They are now busy with practice session in Bhopal. ...
12:13 PM, Dec 23, 2009
Rugby has so far been a male reserve but is now attracting the fairer sex. ...
08:56 PM, May 31, 2009
They are not shying away from revealing them too. ...
02:20 AM, Jan 26, 2009
