
October 17,1999 00:00:00 AM
New Delhi, Oct 16: ``Punishment better fits the crime.'' The powers-that-be in world hockey ignored this maxim for years, even as countri...
Sun, Oct 17, 1999
October 06,1999 00:00:00 AM
KATHMANDU, Oct 5: Tricolour in hand, Dingko Singh's lap in the boxing ring amidst noisy spectators; the rare smile on PT Usha's face afte...
Wed, Oct 06, 1999
October 06,1999 00:00:00 AM
KATHMANDU, Oct 5: Tricolour in hand, Dingko Singh's lap in the boxing ring amidst noisy spectators; the rare smile on PT Usha's face afte...
Wed, Oct 06, 1999
October 05,1999 00:00:00 AM
Kathmandu, Oct 4: It was the gold Nepal wanted most desperately. Thousands shouted hoarse inside the Dasratha Stadium, while others mille...
Tue, Oct 05, 1999
October 04,1999 00:00:00 AM
Kathmandu, Oct 3: Nisha Millet made quite a splash at the BIS Complex pool here. She won gold in all the seven disciplines she participat...
Mon, Oct 04, 1999
October 04,1999 00:00:00 AM
Kathmandu, Oct 3: Jaspal Rana was bang on target as he made it eight out of eight in the SAF Games shooting competiton at the BIS Complex...
Mon, Oct 04, 1999
October 03,1999 00:00:00 AM
Kathmandu, Oct 2: India went crashing down on the slushy turf of the Dasratha Stadium as Bangladesh played a tactically superior game to ...
Sun, Oct 03, 1999
October 03,1999 00:00:00 AM
Kathmandu, Oct 2: India are headed for a clean sweep in the table tennis competition at the SAF Games as they took all the three doubles ...
Sun, Oct 03, 1999
October 03,1999 00:00:00 AM
Kathmandu, Oct 2: Hockey, the national game of both India and Pakistan, is getting the cold shoulder. It was bad enough that hockey was n...
Sun, Oct 03, 1999
October 03,1999 00:00:00 AM
Dingko Singh's journey from a small orphanage in Manipur to the Asian Games gold last year was marked with hard work, single-minded deter...
Sun, Oct 03, 1999
October 02,1999 00:00:00 AM
Kathmandu, Oct 1: India start favourites as they take on Bangladesh in the football semi-finals of the South Asian Federation Games at th...
Sat, Oct 02, 1999
September 30,1999 00:00:00 AM
Kathmandu, Sept 29: Two Indian women, PT Usha and Sunita Rani, took centrestage as seven records fell on the concluding day of the athlet...
Thu, Sep 30, 1999
September 29,1999 00:00:00 AM
Kathmandu, Sept 28: The rescheduling of athletics events at the SAF Games has put a lot of strain on some Indian athletes and left the co...
Wed, Sep 29, 1999
September 29,1999 00:00:00 AM
KATHMANDU, SEPT 28: There were no challengers threatening Sunita Rani today, no one to push her to the limit. Yet, the 19-year-old Indian...
Wed, Sep 29, 1999
September 28,1999 00:00:00 AM
KATHMANDU, SEPT 27: Gulab Chand's suprising pull-out from his pet event 5,000m and subsequent sixth-place finish in the 800m told the tal...
Tue, Sep 28, 1999
September 27,1999 00:00:00 AM
KATHMANDU, SEPT 26: PT Usha (11.45) produced some of the old form but only for a silver as Sri Lanka's Damayanthi Darsha won the women's ...
Mon, Sep 27, 1999
September 26,1999 00:00:00 AM
KATHMANDU, SEPT 25: Susanthika Jayasinghe, Asian athletics queen of the nineties has been in the limelight, of late, for all the wrong re...
Sun, Sep 26, 1999
September 25,1999 00:00:00 AM
KATHMANDU, SEPT 24: Jordan Nanov Stoykov got up from the bench and took a few hesitant steps towards the turf. He then looked up at the s...
Sat, Sep 25, 1999
September 25,1999 00:00:00 AM
KATHMANDU, SEPT 24: Jordan Nanov Stoykov got up from the bench and took a few hesitant steps towards the turf. He then looked up at the s...
Sat, Sep 25, 1999
September 24,1999 00:00:00 AM
KATHMANDU, SEPT 23: ``Another beer sir,'' the portly flight attendant smiled. My companion nodded frantically and winked at me. ``IA serv...
Fri, Sep 24, 1999
September 21,1999 00:00:00 AM
New Delhi, Sept 20: The signs are ominous. It is not even a year since India won the Asian Games hockey gold in Bangkok, but those images...
Tue, Sep 21, 1999
September 10,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, Sept 9: The London-based Indian Gymkhana's decision to invite three promising juniors to play the English League has come as a...
Fri, Sep 10, 1999
August 21,1999 00:00:00 AM
New Delhi, Aug 20: Is the Indian hockey team management indulging in umpire bashing to gloss over the poor performance of their side in t...
Sat, Aug 21, 1999
August 21,1999 00:00:00 AM
New Delhi, Aug 20: Is the Indian hockey team management indulging in umpire bashing to gloss over the poor performance of their side in t...
Sat, Aug 21, 1999
August 12,1999 00:00:00 AM
New Delhi, Aug 11: The Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) has come up with another first recommending a current player and former coach for t...
Thu, Aug 12, 1999




