Friday, February 20, 2026

Author: Worldsnap Staff

Pune

Delhi players rule the court

Delhi lad and seventh seeded Garvit Batra lifted a memorable double crown by winning the boys’ singles and doubles titles, while Jasmin Kaur Bajaj lifted the girls’ singles title at the Bilcare-ATF Trophy Under-14 Series Tennis Tournament. The tournament organised by Econ Ace Tennis Academy and PYC Gymkhana at the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Balewadi, got over on Friday.Batra, who upset top-seed SD Prajwal Dev on Thursday, scored an emphatic 6-2 6-2 win over wildcard entrant…

Read More
Pune

PMC, Cummins staffers clean up river bed

Over 350 staffers of the Warje Karvenagar regional ward office of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and a section of the employees from Cummins India Limited on Friday jointly undertook a cleaning drive on the river bed for three hours. During the drive, they collected two containers full of plastic carry bags, gutkha sachets and other garbage from the river bed. The drive was carried out between Rajaram and Mhatre bridges. Regional ward officer Sunil Gaikwad, health inspector Dipak D…

Read More
Sports

Faisal, Rovin survive scares

State junior champion Rovin D’Souza and title contender Faisal Khan survived scares in the All-India Sohrab Gandhi Open Handicap Billiards & Naval Tata Open Handicap Snooker tournament at the Elphinstone CC, CST, on Friday.Central Railway’s Faisal Khan (+10) was forced to sweat for a narrow 102-55 48-89 104-77 second round win over Mohit Bhulchandani (+55) of Khar Gymkhana.In a first round match, Rovin D’Souza of Bombay Gymkhana struggled to overcome Prathamesh Sawant of T…

Read More
Pune

City girl’s dream touches space

City girl Zohra Aziz Ali Manjiyani is among the 40 students to have contributed towards designing perhaps the country’s first smallest student satellite (STUDSAT) which is ready for launch on Sunday. Zohra is a final year electronic engineering student from the All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society’s Institute of Information Technology. It is a dream come true for her since from childhood she has been inclined towards space science and wanted to do something on that subject. …

Read More
Jaipur

Government to pay more to acquire land

There is some good news for land owners, whose land was acquired by state government for development works and they went not happy with compensation that they were offered.Now, government is planning to allot 25% developed land to land owners in those matters which were stuck up in court before 2005 as the owners were not happy with compensation of 15% developed land offered to them. Most owners have not surrendered their land to the state government as they felt that the compensa…

Read More