Legendary hockey player Major Dhyan Chand might soon be conferred with BharatRatna (posthumously) as Union sports minister Vijay Goel has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fulfill the long-pending demand. This has come four years after cricketing maestro Sachin Tendulkar became the first sportsperson to be conferred with India’s highest civilian honour. Dhyan Chand, who died in 1979, guided India to three gold medals at the Olympics (1928, 1932, and […]