Pritish Raj
Senior Sub-Editor at The Indian Express
Travel, Sports, Politics & Cinema. Sports Journalist @IExpressSports Ex @the_bridge_in Story pitches✉️: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Pritish Raj
The Sports Ministry has approved an out of pocket allowance of Rs 25,000 per month for hockey players who are picked in the national camp of both men’s and women’s team. The decision was taken after repeated requests from the governing body, Hockey India, in the monthly meeting of Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) on Thursday. A total of 80 players (40 men and 40 women) will be part of the scheme. Hockey India will be sending the players names to Sports Ministry.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Pritish Raj
India were left ruing the missed chances after the team came back from a two-goal deficit, levelled the scores, forced penalty shoot-outs, but were unable to convert even one attempt in a nail-biting FIH Pro League contest against Argentina. After holding the heavyweights 2-2 in the regulation time, Deepika, Rutuja Dadaso Pisal, Lalremsiami, and Baljeet Kaur missed their chances in the tie-breakers while Brisa Bruggesser and Sofia Cairo scored for Argentina to take the bonus points home.
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Pritish Raj
Twenty two-year-old middle distance runner Pooja is on a constant rise in 2025 winning four international medals in her first two international tournaments. The runner from Fatehabad, Haryana who features in 800m and 1500m won bronze medal in the 800m at Asian Athletics Championships last month clocking her personal best and silver in 1500m. She topped it with gold in both events at Taiwan Open Athletics. However, the youngster didn’t start with Athletics as her first choice sport back in teenage.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Pritish Raj
So when he addressed the press after the latest setback – a loss to lower-ranked Hong Kong in the Asian Cup 2027 qualifiers Round 3 on Tuesday conceding a goal in the 94th minute – the most he managed was elaborating on the nature of this knot. “In ISL, most of the clubs have foreign players as strikers. It is very difficult for a player to play in a certain position (winger or playmaker) for long time and then shift to another position for the national team,” Chaubey said.
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3 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Pritish Raj
The announcement of a franchise based league in the sport of shooting has all the stakeholders buzzing with anticipation. While shooting is largely an individual sport, the Shooting India League will feature only mixed-team format across disciplines and not individual events in a bid to make the event more audience-friendly. There is no clarity about the team owners and the roster of international players, as yet.
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In his second pro bout @nishantdevjr wins by unanimous decision. A good takeaway was that he was landing precise punches in the 5th round. I am still learning and want to improve more, he says. He fights again next month on 19th July. #ProBoxing https://t.co/RQfCyTSvgg
I was there and the journalist was not a sports journalist The event was organized in Press Club of India which has journalists from every walk, few of them were seating there and they asked questions also.
A journalist just suggested AIFF should start a "Border-Gavaskar Trophy" in football and also an IPL-style league 💀 Either they're completely clueless, or worse—paid puppets. That press conference was just a cover-up—no tough questions, no accountability, just diplomatic PR talk https://t.co/YYL52aPlaW
When asked about Bhaichung Bhutia's comments, Kalyan Chaubey takes out all the details of how his football schools have performed. He picked a result where Bhutia's school lost 0-31. What petty it has turned out to be, feels like kids fighting in lunch break.