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The Times of India:PUNE:The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has ruled out the possibility of revival of rain over the country, barring north-eastern states, for the next few days. While the lean phase is being described as ‘not unusual’, authorities at the IMD office here have attributed the subdued monsoon activity to the absence of a ‘triggering mechanism’ required for advancing the south-west monsoon.

“There are no signs yet of any spectacular revival of the monsoon for the next two to three days,” said N. Jayanthi, deputy director general for weather forecasting at the IMD. “We are going through a lean phase primarily due to the absence of any synoptic system like a low pressure area or cyclonic circulation either in the Bay of Bengal or on the Arabian sea side,” she said. The entire activity has shifted to the north-east, she added.

BBC News: A business blogger who changed the wider world view of Microsoft is leaving the software giant for a Silicon Valley start-up.
Robert Scoble’s blog about his life and events inside and outside Microsoft became the unofficial corporate voice of the company.
Many turned to his blog to find out how the firm reacted to big news events.
His blog won praise for its neutrality and readiness to point out Microsoft’s mistakes or praise its rivals.Mr Scoble’s blog, called Scobleizer, is widely seen as helping to humanise Microsoft and shift its stance from arrogant and aloof to one that is more inclusive and accepting of criticism.

Indian Express:Pune, June 12: THERE seems to be no respite in the growing spate of robberies that is being witnessed in the city and rural outskirts with two more robberies being reported since Saturday night.
Two residents of Abhalwadi village in Sangamner taluka of Ahmednagar district, including a woman, were injured when they were attacked by a gang of four unidentified robbers at Ambegavan village on Brahmanwada-Otur Road in Junnar Taluka on Saturday night.
The robbers decamped with a gold ring, weighing about three grams and estimated to be worth over Rs 2,000. Pune rural police have started looking for the robbers after one of the victims, Raosaheb Jayram Abhale (40), filed an FIR at Otur police station.

The Times Of India :PUNE: With software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announcing plans to establish a mega information technology (IT) facility in Pune, the IT community here has emphasised that in view of such plans, greater attention needs to be paid to upgrade the city’s infrastructure.

The TCS, which signed an MoU with Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh in Mumbai, has committed Rs 500 crore investment at the new facility expected to come up in two years, over 20.23 hectare land at Hinjewadi phase III.
While Pune’s IT community sounded upbeat about the development, the contention being raised vis-avis infrastructure is that Pune can barely afford to be complacent at a time when most IT majors, Indian and foreign, were demonstrating a greater realisation about the city’s importance in the global IT map.