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IndianExpress: Cipla Ltd is planning to set up a Rs 384 crore manufacturing facility at Kurkumbh MIDC, about 75 kms from here. Cipla said the new facility was being planned to meet the growing demand of various products in the international market.

The new facility, with a capacity to produce 320 tonnes of API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) and 200 crore formulations per year, will produce antiretroviral, anti inflammatory, anti diabetic, anti bacterial, antipsychotic and anti hypertensive drugs.

The facility, which would come up near the existing plant of Cipla, is expected to create job opportunities for 400 people in the drought prone Daund taluka of Pune district.

IndianExpress: Its 9 am and rush hour. Traffic hurtles past Shivaji housing society chowk on Senapati Bapat Road at break-neck speed. A young girl on a two-wheeler attempts to dash past the red light. Suddenly, a whistle and a long white rope block her. Startled, she looks around for the policeman. All she finds is some IT professionals with bright pink jackets thrown over their office garb, holding whistles and traffic signs.

This has been a common sight on the busy Senapati Bapat Road since June 12, when employees of software firm T-Systems decided not to take the indisciplined traffic conditions lying down and man traffic for two hours everyday

IndianExpress:  At least 10,000 school children in Dhankawadi area will get to read incomplete and incorrect National Anthem. For, the notebooks distributed by Rashtrashakti Pratishthan, having photographs of Maratha strongman Sharad Pawar and his nephew Ajit Pawar on its cover has National Anthem printed with errors.

The notebook distribution was the first programme undertaken by the newly-formed Pratishthan’s founder-chairman Dattatrya Dhankawade and Ajit Pawar himself had distributed the notebooks free of cost to at least 3,000 school children on June 17. Dhankawade’s photograph also has been put on the cover of the notebook.

IndianExpress: Just eight days before the June 30 deadline to convert autorickshaws older than 15 years into LPG under the Bhurelal Committee recommendations, only 2,804 autorickshaws out of the target of 4,000 have done so.

The RTO officials said that around 1,407 rickshaws have been converted into LPG, 704 rickshaws have had spare parts replaced while 622 autorickshaw drivers have cancelled their registration. Similarly, for Pimpri-Chinchwad area, eight rickshaws have been converted into LPG, spare parts of 33 have been replaced while registration of 30 autorickshaws has been cancelled by the drivers.

IndianExpress:  The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has come to the rescue of an Aundh resident who was asked to pay a faulty STD bill of Rs 87,394 by telecom giant BSNL nine years ago. A three-member bench of the forum decided that the phone bill arrears claimed by BSNL from Arun Laxman Tengshe for the period from August 1997 to April 1998 are not liable to be paid as BSNL was guilty of providing ‘deficient service’.

In his complaint filed before the forum in 1999, Tengshe said that STD and ISD facilities were activated in his phone in June 1997 and he was receiving regular bills of Rs 1,500 for a two-month billing cycle. However, he was in for a shock in August the same year when he got a bill of Rs 44,342 for calls he never made.

IndianExpress:  After four persons died in accidents within a month on Kondhwa Road, mayor Rajni Tribhuvan has ordered immediate suspension of the officers from the civic body’s road department.

The orders have come after Shiv Sena leader Mahadeo Babbar raised the issue of increasing number of accidents on the road and condemned the civic body for lack of action. He said the road was inspected by zonal commissioner Vilas Kanade on June 12 and accordingly he had given orders to Bibvewadi ward officer Anil Jagtap to repair the road

IndianExpress:  A gang of five armed dacoits, which struck at the residence of Mangesh Rohidas Patil in Guruvihar Colony at Bhosari early on Thursday, decamped with jewellery estimated at over Rs 38,500. Police said the dacoits, who were armed with swords and country-made revolvers, forced entry inside the house after breaking the inside bolt and safety chain of the door with a crowbar. They relieved the occupants of the jewellery after threatening them of dire consequences.

News.com: IBM unveiled two free security tools for software developers that are designed to enhance automatic data encryption and to increase security for Java applications.

Big Blue on Thursday said it is adding the tools to AlphaWorks, a 10-year-old online program that offers free software tools, as the company looks to beef up its security offerings

One of the new tools, AlphaWorks’ IBM Secure Shell Library for Java, automatically encrypts data, including passwords and data in files, as it moves from one computer to another.

VNUNet.com: Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s warning of an unpatched flaw in Excel earlier this week, the firm’s Security Response Center is investigating reports of a second vulnerability affecting the spreadsheet application.

The company began investigating after the appearance of proof-of-concept PERL script claiming to demonstrate a vulnerability in Excel’s processing of long links, according to a posting on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.

The flaw is actually a vulnerability in ‘hlink.dll’, a Windows component that handles operations involving hyperlinks.

News.com: Microsoft’s security ambitions don’t stop with the consumer. The company also has an eye on the multibillion-dollar enterprise security market.

Now that it’s launched the Windows Live OneCare security service for consumers, Microsoft is ramping up its efforts to convince businesses that it is the solution to, not the source of, their security woes. The Redmond, Wash., company last week unveiled Forefront, a single brand that encompasses updated and upcoming security products aimed at businesses.

The moves are part of Microsoft’s attempt to expand its business and tap new revenue sources, analysts said. Last year, security software sales hit $12 billion, according to research firm IDC. On the enterprise side, Yankee Group expects the Windows client security software market to grow to $3.6 billion this year.