Facebook Pixel India drag-flicker Deepika readies for return from injury | Hindustan Times Gurugram - newspaper - Bu hikayeyi Magzter.com'da okuyun

Denemek ALTIN - Özgür

India drag-flicker Deepika readies for return from injury

Hindustan Times Gurugram

|

October 15, 2025

The Indian women’s hockey team sorely missed the services of one player at the Asia Cup last month where the Salima Tete-led side lost in the final to hosts and Paris Olympics silver medallists China.

- Sandip Sikdar

India drag-flicker Deepika readies for return from injury

Striker and drag-flicker Deepika Sehrawat could not travel to Hangzhou due to a tear in her hamstring, sustained in the last training session before the travel day. The injury meant India were without their primary penalty corner (PC) specialist at the 2026 World Cup qualifier.

“We missed Deepika as we were also focussed on indirect PC attempts through her. Because of that we had to reset the entire PC attack structure. With Deepika, we would have scored more goals and would have been more cohesive. She is a player who can win matches,” India head coach Harendra Singh told HT,

Hindustan Times Gurugram'den DAHA FAZLA HİKAYE

Hindustan Times Gurugram

Hindustan Times Gurugram

Eww, that's TMI

The bots are on, listening and talking to each other. With AI in the mix, they know more about you than ever. Why are you not terrified yet?

time to read

3 mins

May 16, 2026

Hindustan Times Gurugram

Hindustan Times Gurugram

LSG’s Marsh, Akash dent CSK’s hopes for playoffs

Chennai Super Kings’ playoff hopes were dented after Lucknow Super Giants scripted a facile seven-wicket win on Friday.

time to read

2 mins

May 16, 2026

Hindustan Times Gurugram

Hindustan Times Gurugram

A zest for life

An Accidental Lawyer, the autobiography of former Attorney General KK Venugopal, provides insights into an array of events that shaped contemporary India

time to read

4 mins

May 16, 2026

Hindustan Times Gurugram

SC allows remission of sentence for convict in 2003 UP murder case

The Supreme Court on Friday held that the executive cannot deny remission solely on grounds of the crime being heinous paving the way for the premature release of a life convict, 22 years after he was jailed in the 2003 Madhumita Shukla murder case in Uttar Pradesh.

time to read

1 mins

May 16, 2026

Hindustan Times Gurugram

7 KILLED AFTER SPEEDING TANKER CRASHES INTO TRACTOR IN K'TAKA

Seven members of an extended family were killed on Friday after a speeding tanker truck crashed into their tractor on a stretch of National Highway 50 along the border of Karnataka’s Koppal and Vijayanagara districts, said police.

time to read

1 min

May 16, 2026

Hindustan Times Gurugram

'COCKROACHES' TARGETING THE SYSTEM: CJI ON JUDICIAL ATTACKS

The Supreme Court on Friday came down hard on what it described as growing and unwarranted attacks on the judiciary and the legal system, with CJI Surya Kant remarking that some unemployed young people end up becoming “media, social media, RTI activists and other activists” and begin targeting institutions.

time to read

1 min

May 16, 2026

Hindustan Times Gurugram

SC sets aside HC order suspending Sengar's life term in Unnao rape case

The Supreme Court on Friday set aside a Delhi high court order that had suspended the life sentence of former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao rape case, observing that it does not prima facie endorse the “hyper-technical view” taken by the HC that Sengar could not strictly be termed a public servant for attracting the offence of aggravated penetrative sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).

time to read

2 mins

May 16, 2026

Hindustan Times Gurugram

Maha teacher part of NTA exam process behind NEET leak: CBI

A Chemistry professor who was part of the National Testing Agency's examination process has been arrested as the alleged mastermind behind the NEET-UG 2026 question paper leak, the CBI said on Friday, pointing to a breach that originated inside the agency responsible for conducting India’s most critical medical entrance test.

time to read

1 min

May 16, 2026

Hindustan Times Gurugram

Heat, moisture, wind shear came together to brew deadly UP storm

What hit Uttar Pradesh this week, killing at least 11 people across 25 districts, was not a single storm but a collision of weather systems that should not ordinarily be in the same place at the same time.

time to read

4 mins

May 16, 2026

Hindustan Times Gurugram

Hindustan Times Gurugram

'Either be clear and honest upfront, or be quiet and let me play in peace'

It’s been a year and three days since Virat Kohli posted Frank Sinatra’s ‘I Did It My Way’ on his Instagram post to abruptly call time on his Test career — leaving him as an international cricketer who plays only the ODI format.

time to read

3 mins

May 16, 2026

Listen

Translate

Share

-
+

Change font size