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• Azlan Shah Tourney: India coach strikes confident note
  Coach A K Bansal has said that India was all set to take on stronger teams in the ensuing matches at the Azlan Shah Tournament at Ipoh, Malaysia.

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• Azlan Shah Tourney: India record first win
  India scored their first win in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament as they beat Canada 3-1 in Ipoh, Malaysia on Sunday.

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• Azlan Shah Tourney: Argentina rout India 5-1
  India paid for sloppy defending as Argentina scored an emphatic 5-1 win in a Sultan Azlan Shah Cup match at Ipoh, Malaysia on Friday.

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• Azlan Shah Tourney: India lose opener
  Sandeep Singh's hattrick went in vain as India lost their opening match of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup against New Zealand at Ipoh, Malaysia on Thursday.

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• Hockey India: Baptism by fire for new coach
  “We have got the right balance, India’s stop-gap hockey coach Ajay Bansal tells Ashish Bhardwaj ahead of the Azlan Shah Cup starting on Thursday afternoon”

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• Kharab: Best available team went to Kazan
  After 80 years, the men’s team failed to qualify for the Olympics and now the women have met the same fate in Kazan, Russia. Reports reveal 11 of the 18 girls in Russia were unfit. A distraught Indian captain Mamta Kharab tells Mobile ESPN’s Kartik Chaudhry the 'real' story.

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• Ajitpal Singh: We must make full use of Charlesworth
  The proverbial Damocles sword it seems is waiting to fall on Indian coach Joaquim Carvalho. Mobile ESPN's Rajarshi Chatterjee seeks some answers from former Olympian Ajitpal Singh, one of the five ad-hoc committe members and his answers are pointing to a certain Ric Charlesworth.

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• Indian Hockey: IOA promises no interference
  The Indian Olympic Association has promised the five-member ad-hoc committee a free hand in reviving hockey in India and in selection matters.

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• Azlan Shah: India face New Zealand in opener
  India will take on New Zealand in the opening match of the seven-nation Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey tournament to be played at Ipoh, Malaysia from May 8 to 18.

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• Hockey India: IHF suspended, Gill sacked
  In the wake of the financial scandal featuring Indian Hockey Federation secretary K.Jothikumaran, the Indian Olympic Association on Monday suspended the hockey federation and has sacked its maverick president K.P.S Gill.

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• India Hockey: Sport back on priority list
  In a move to tighten its grip over the hockey administration in India, the Government has upgraded the sport in the sports priority list and appointed former Olympians Ajit Pal Singh and Zafar Iqbal as observers in the IHF.

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• Hockey India: IHF sets up probe committee
  Stung by the recent allegations of bribery involving its secretary K Jothikumaran, the Indian Hockey Federation on Wednesday constituted up a three-member committee to inquire into the sting operation by a television news channel.

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• Jothikumaran: I have been framed
  by Kartik Chaudhry
  
  Disgraced Indian Hockey Federation secretary K Jyothikumaran Tuesday claimed he had been framed by overzealous TV journalists and will stay away from the sport "till such time I am proved innocent".

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