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IndianExpress: Alarm bells rang at Dr Ambedkar Hospital in Dehu Road when over 200 patients were admitted for treatment of fever and cold in the second week of June. Fearing that the cases of fever were similar to the symptoms of chickungunya, the hospital has sent the samples to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune.

District malaria officer Dr Salil Patil has appealed to the people not to panic as the number of cases have declined. He averred that the symptoms were similar to that of chickungunya and other tests have ruled out the possibility of dengue or malaria.

“We found that the patients were complaining of cold, fever with acute joint pains which are the general symptoms of chickungunya,’’ he explained, adding that similar complaints were reported from the patients of Indapur taluka when there was an outbreak.

IndianExpress: After a 16-day haitus, the monsoon, which had arrived early this year, has once again revived and the West Coast — including Konkan, Mumbai, Goa and Madhya Maharashtra that comprises Pune — is likely to get enhanced rainfall.

The India Meteorology Department officials said the prediction for enhanced rainfall depended on the formation of a low pressure in the North-West and adjoining West-Central Bay of Bengal.
The mathematical model shows us that there will be a formation of low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal and if it comes true, the West Coast will have enhanced rainfall activity,’’ India Meteorological Department director (Weather Forecasting) R R Lele said. The model suggests formation of the low pressure area around June 29 and 30.

IndianExpress: Unable to walk or stand, a wheelchair bound Pooja Sharma went back home to Meerut, after an unsuccessful attempt to study in a city hailed as the Oxford of the East. Home to some of the best educational institutions in the country, Pune could not offer Pooja a ‘suitable’ home. The reason: There was no ‘reserved’ accommodation for this special physically handicapped teenager.

With 33 institutes and 45,000 students on campus, Symbiosis is a sought after deemed university. For Pooja, who came out with flying colours from DAV Public School, Meerut, an admission to the five-year degree course in Bachelor in Business Administration and Law (BBALLB) was a dream come true.

IndianExpress: Five children and a woman were trapped inside the lift of Ashoka Mews at Kondhwa on Monday afternoon. They were safely taken out of the lift before it crashed.

Perturbed with such frequent incidents, residents have filed a complaint with the Kondhwa police chowki
The incident took place in the H wing of Ashoka Mews at 1.20 pm. However, residents claim that such incidents of people getting trapped inside the lift and the lift crashing down happen quite often.

IndianExpress: After being closed for more than four months the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will re-open Lal Mahal on Thursday. Additional municipal commissioner (general) Mohan Adtani announced that the civic administration will re-open the heritage building in the next two days in the General Body (GB) meeting on Tuesday.

The announcement was made after Shiv Sena leader Ramesh Bodake enquired on the re-opening of Lal Mahal. ‘‘After Shaiste Khan’s escape no one has ever closed Lal Mahal. We need to open the palace immediately,’’ he said. Bodake was joined by corporators Mahadeo Babar and Shyam Deshpande along with Milind Ekbote demanding the reopening immediately

IndianExpress: Two-and-half-year-old Neha Awgade suffered burns on Tuesday afternoon after coming in contact with an electric transformer on Ghole Road. Awgade suffered 33 per cent burns and is in serious condition at Sassoon hospital.

The incident took place when Awgade along with her parents took shelter in the transformer room from rains. The transformer box was open and its wire was hanging. When Nikita came in contact with one of the wires there was a sudden spark and she caught fire.

IndianExpress: The number of girls committing suicide after failing in the SSC examination reached two when Komal Kisan Kambale (17) ended her life on Monday evening.

Police said Komal, who lived at Surbhi Heights at Warje, hanged herself in her residence while her parents and brothers had gone out. Komal had failed in SSC examinations on two earlier occassions too, they added.

IndianExpress: The Pune Municipal Corporation’s General Body (GB) meeting on Tuesday declared its intention for preparing a new Development Plan (DP) for the city to be implemented from 2007.

The decision was taken after the City Imrovement Committee (CIC) had approved the proposal stating that the old DP sanctioned in 1987 was nearing its deadline in 2007 and therefore the civic administration should declare its intention for preparing the new DP.

TMCNet.com: Tatung Co., the multi-billion global leading design and manufacturing company, announced that it has signed a license agreement with Microsoft Corp.’s Unified Communication Group. As part of the agreement, Tatung will develop and market worldwide a series of handsets and headsets for enterprise users. A prototype of wireless handset was demonstrated at the Microsoft Unified Communications Group Strategy Day in San Francisco, California on June 26.
In supporting Microsoft’s unique vision for unified communications, which puts people at the center of communications — not the network or device, to create more personal and intuitive communication

TechTree.com: Seagate Technologies has announced three new 2.5-inch notebook PC hard drives built on perpendicular recording technology, with capacities up to 160GB.

The first of the new laptop hard drives combines flash memory and magnetic storage to reduce power consumption and increase performance; the second drive uses encryption technology to provide on-the-fly hardware-level security; while the third one brings-up capacities to 160GB.

The new Momentus 5400 PSD (Power-Saving Drive) combines flash memory with a fast hard disc drive to save power. The drive duplicates the most commonly used hard drive data onto a large 256MB non-volatile cache to deliver capabilities including faster boot-up and resume, lower power consumption, greater reliability, and higher performance.