Sunday, February 22, 2026

Author: Worldsnap Staff

Sports

Pune FC keen to maintain the winning run

Three changes are on the card for Pune Football Club. The Pune side will miss Subrata Paul’s services at the goal post, which is a reason to worry for coach Derek Pereira when they take on Chirag United Sports Club in their away match on Friday at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata.?He is India’s number one goalkeeper and we will miss him. But Narsimhan Balaji has played for us and has done well, so there is nothing that should worry, as I am sure Bala will deliver,? said Pereira? while talki…

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Blog/Opinion

Open for hackers

According to a report by the Canada-based Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Chinese hackers have tapped into computers across India and Indian missions abroad. They have apparently stolen sensitive data, which includes information about India’s missile systems. The Dalai Lama’s emails have also been a target. The report also states that the hackers were part of an India-based spy offensive, based in the Sichuan province of China. The Chinese authorities have, …

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Sports

Jaipurites will still cling to their glasses!

The excitement was on a high in Jaipur, as Jaipurites eagerly waited for the IPL matches to be played here. But what dampened the spirits was the decision by the Rajasthan government to ban liquor sales at the stadium. For most people, any celebration is incomplete without liquor. It seems people have opted the other way out?the city hotels and lounges are offering unlimited drinks with live matches on big screens, and Jaipurites are more than happy to evade the stadium. It may be…

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Jaipur

Martyrs to be cremated today

At around 8pm on Monday night Rukmini Meena tried speaking with her husband CRPF assistant commandant BL Meena over the phone, but all she could hear amidst static disturbance was "I am in an operation, will talk later". A few hours after she tucked in her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Rhia (Munni) to bed at her residence in Jhunjhunu, her husband embraced martyrdom. He died with 75 of his men from the battalion in a cold blooded Naxalite ambush in the remote jungles of Dantewada di…

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Mumbai

Despite water shortage, Mumbai consumes beyond BMC limit

While a considerable portion of Mumbai suffered acute water cuts, a section consumed water in excess of the limit (150 litre per person per day, or lppd) set by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in the financial year gone by.Even as the BMC decreased supply by 15% during the year’s second half to compensate for deficient rains, the water bill for April 2009 to March 2010 (Rs915 crore) was Rs10 crore more than the year before (Rs905 crore)."This means that while the t…

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