December 06, 2025 02:57 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
In front of Putin, PM Modi makes bold statement on Russia-Ukraine war: ‘India is not neutral, we side with peace!’ | Rupee weakens following RBI repo rate cut | RBI slashes repo rate by 25 basis points — big relief coming for borrowers! | 'Mamata fooled Muslims': Humayun Kabir explodes after TMC suspends him over 'Babri Masjid-style mosque' demand; announces new party | Mosque in the middle of Kolkata airport? Centre confirms flight risks, BJP fires at Mamata | Sam Altman is betting big on India! OpenAI in advanced talks with Tata to build AI infrastructure | Government removes mandatory pre-installation of Sanchar Saathi App. Know all details | Calcutta HC overturns controversial Bengal job annulment — 32,000 teachers rejoice! | Bengal SIR shock: 1 lakh ‘deceased voters’ found in Kolkata North! | Massive twist in Bengal voter list: ‘Perfect’ 2,280 booths shrink to just 480 after probe!

Hockey: Belgium beat India 3-2 in WC opener

| | Jun 01, 2014, at 05:35 am
The Hague, May 31 (IBNS); India had a poor start to their World Cup campaign as they were defeated by Belgium 2-3 in their opening match here on Saturday.

Mandeep Singh (45th minute) and Akashdeep Singh (50th)  gave Indian 2-1 lead after the opponent had broken the shackles and Florent van Aubel  scored the first goal of the match in 34th minute.

India, however, failed to maintain the lead and Simon Gougnard (56) made the scorecard 2-2 .

India conceded a last minute goal as John Dohmen scored in the 70 th minute to win the first match for Belgium.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.