Sachin Tendulkar and Vishwanathan Anand have been omitted in the reconstituted government panel on sports for not being 'active' enough.
Divyansh Singh Pawar and Apurvi Chandela won gold medals at the Meytom Cup in Austria.
At this moment, world champion PV Sindhu (6th) and B Sai Praneeth (11th) and men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty (8th) have more or less assured their berths for the Tokyo Games.
Hockey Australia thanked Hockey India after the latter donated USD 25,000 for Australian Bushfire relief.
World no. 5 India had earlier defeated Netherlands 5-2 in the opening match of the tie on Saturday.
A 64-year-old man has died of cardiac arrest while taking part in the Mumbai Marathon on Sunday.
Conor McGregor (22-4) floored Cerrone (36-14) only 20 seconds into the bout with a perfectly placed left kick to the head.
Bajrang Punia won gold in the men's 65kg freestyle category while Ravi Kumar bagged gold in the 61kg category.
Rupinder Pal Singh (12th, 46th minutes) converted two penalty corners, while Gurjant Singh (1st), Mandeep Singh (34th) and Lalit Upadhyay (36th) scored three fine field goals for India.
Seven teams will be vying for top honours in the league which will witness some of the world's best in action and offers a total prize money of Rs six crore, Prasad Mangipudi, executive director, SportzLive, said at a press meet here on Saturday.
Bajrang had to sweat it out in the first round against Zain Allen Retherford of USA before prevailing 5-4.
Competing in the first Ranking Series event of the 2020 season, Vinesh downed two tough Chinese rivals on her way to the 53kg gold medal bout, in which she overpowered Ecuador's Luisa Elizabeth Valverde.
Vinesh downed two tough Chinese rivals on her way to the 53kg gold medal bout in which she overpowered Ecudor's Luisa Elizabeth Valverde 4-0.
Anand was struggling for form but roared back to notch a win after one loss and three draws.
HI also donated signed national team jerseys which will put for auction and the proceeds to be used through Red Cross to help those affected by the wildfires.
India's Vishwanathan Anand registered his first victory over the tournament over Jeffery Xiong.
Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth has stressed that the BWF making it compulsory to play in 12 events has made it difficult for players.
PV Sindu suffered a 21-16, 16-21, 19-21 loss to Japan's Sayaka Takahashi in a thrilling Indonesia Masters quarterfinal match.
PV Sindhu defeated Aya Ohori 14-21, 21-15, 21-11 to move into the second round of Indonesia Masters.
Saina Nehwal suffered a shock 21-19 13-21 5-21 loss to Sayaka Takahashi while Kidambi Srikanth went down to Shesar Hiren Rhustavito 21-18 12-21 14-21.
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