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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…

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…

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. …