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IndianExpress: A 22-MEMBER Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) team that will undertake a trekking expedition to the higher reaches of the Himalayas was flagged off from the college by the Commandant Lt Gen Saibal Mukherjee on Friday. The team, consisting of twenty medical cadets and two faculty members of the college, will cover 104-kilometers over 12 days. The expedition will start from Manikaran and end at Kaza in Spiti during which the team will cross the Pin Parbati pass at a height of 16,535 ft.

The team will also conduct a health survey on child immunisation in villages and settlements on their trekking route. Team members will also educate villagers on the need for adopting universal immunisation of their children. On their return the team will share its experience with all the students and faculty of the college through an audio- visual presentation

IndianExpress: WITH the results for Secondary School Examination being announced on Monday at 11 am, the centralised process for admission to 45,255 seats in 566 colleges in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad for class 11 will also be initiated. This year there has been an increase of 3,435 seats across all the streams — Arts, Science, Commerce and Minimum Competency Vocational Course (MCVC).

The colour-coded forms each costing Rs 40 — each stream will have a separate colour — will be available for sale in all the government recognised colleges from Monday till June 28, while it will be available at the coordination cell of the Central Admission Committee at SP College till June 30.

IndianExpress: A few years ago when Pranaya Patil and Amin Almel embarked on a business venture their assets were perseverance, patience and a never-say-die attitude. Today, those investments have paid off and both these micro-entrepreneurs are recipients of national awards.

Pranaya and Amin’s success story is a typical saga of starting their business from their residences and moving on from there to make a mark in their respective fields. If Amin found success through the production of tyre inflators, it was soft luggage manufacturing that shaped Pranaya’s career.
‘‘While starting, I had no capital and had to rely on family members for making the equipment. Right now I have more than 20 employees under me,’’ says a proud Amin.

Patil on the other hand manufactures over 1,000 units of soft luggage a month. ‘‘When I started, I did not have any money and used to make the bags myself, which was about 10 a day,’’ she remembers.

IndianExpress: CITIZENS will neither have to put up with rude autorickshaw drivers nor bear with over-charging. If either of it happens, they can write to the Regional Transport Office (RTO) which promises to help individuals harassed by auto drivers. All one has to do is to provide the registration number of the vehicle and the nature of the complaint.

The system is not new, say RTO officials. ‘‘Generally, we receive around five to six letters from the citizens in a month,’’ the official said. However, the Regional Transport Authority has asked the RTO to take strict action on such complaints
The RTO’s prosecution department will register the complaint and when the auto driver comes for renewal of permit, he will have to report to the prosecution department, pay the fine and get his permit renewed, the official said.

IndianExpress: THE dead body of a lottery businessman was found near the Mahatma Phule school, Pimpri on Sunday morning. The victim has been identified as Mahesh Bhatia (38). His father Arjundas Bhatia (62) had registered a complaint of missing person with the Pimpri police.
According to police, Mahesh had taken a loan of around Rs 2 crore from the money lenders eight months ago for starting the business of selling lottery tickets. He was unable to return the amount even after the time of repaying elapsed. Police are looking for the culprits

IndianExpress: TAKING a strong stand against SSC results being made available via SMS, the Satyashodhak Yuva Andolan (SYA) will be staging a protest outside the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Office at 10 am on Monday.

Alleging that the State Board was working hand-in-glove with mobile phone companies to cheat students and their parents by charging exorbitant rates for each SMS, the SYA had submitted petitions to the chief minister, home minister and education minister to hold to account “corrupt officials” and take strict action against them.

ITwire.com: Chip making market leader Intel Corporation has opened a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing facility in Leixlip, Ireland. The fabrication plant is Intel’s third chip factory using 65nm process technology and the industry’s first chip factory in Europe producing 65nm chips in high volume.

The US$2 billion factory has begun high-volume production using 65nm process technology produced on 300mm wafers, which provides the Intel fab with the potential to generate higher microprocessor output at lower cost. Along with Intel’s Fab 12 in Arizona and D1D fab in Oregon, the new facility (called Fab 24-2) is the company’s most technologically advanced, high-volume semiconductor manufacturing plant building multi-core microprocessors.

TheStaronline: Hitachi Data Systems Sdn Bhd (HDS) aims to keep its leading position in the local high-end redundant array of independent disks (RAID) market storage, said country manager Lau Bik Soon.

“We expect to maintain our position with the increase in spending on storage by existing and new customers,” Lau said at the recent Hitachi Data Systems User Conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Lau said the storage specialist had set its sights on the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market as it sought to maintain and boost its market share in the storage business.

TechTree.com: The exciting world of 3D animation will now be available on Reliance mobile phones. Reliance Communication Ventures Ltd has tied up with Disney, the world’s largest family entertainment brand, to offer India’s first 3D animation on mobile on Reliance Mobile World.

Reliance said that its customers can access sixteen Disney animated video shots, including ten in 3D, which are exclusively made for mobile devices and feature Disney characters. Other mobile contents like Disney character wallpapers, ring-tones, games, or comic strips from Disney Zone, created on Reliance Mobile World can also be downloaded.

In addition, with World Cup Soccer gripping the world, the customers are provided with added attraction like wallpapers and animations showing Disney characters in football gear. The downloading of wallpapers and animations will be priced at Rs.5 each and downloading of video shorts and ringtones on Disney Zone will be charged Rs.10 each. The games will be charged Rs.5 for every session.

Techtree.com: Lenovo has unveiled its first ultraportable widescreen notebook PC, “Lenovo 3000 V100.” It is designed for on-the-go small business customers, seeking powerful performance in a modern design.

The notebook PC weighs 1.8 kilograms and sports a 12.1-inch widescreen display. The company said that V100 offers professionals on a limited budget powerful dual-core performance, easy and reliable connectivity, widescreen efficiencies, and new multimedia features.

As with all Lenovo 3000 PCs, the V100 provides worry-free computing with a set of “Lenovo Care” productivity tools that help organize top tasks, most frequently used applications, and help and support tools with the press of a button.

Meanwhile, the V100 is available with Intel Core Duo processors that the company claims efficiently run multiple programs simultaneously, such as business applications and virus scans.