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IndianExpress:  THE Defence Estate office of the Pune Circle has put up a proposal suggesting that four road stretches passing through defence land and aggregating some 72,000 sq metres, be handed over to the Pune Municipal Corporation for road widening projects. The PMC on its part has been for a while been demanding that all 14 roads passing through various establishments be handed over to them. There will not be any transfer of land ownership but it would only be leased out to the civic authority, it is understood.

As per the proposal, the PMC would compensate the Defence for loss of land by way of cash-cum-amenities offer. The cost of the land of all the 14 roads stretches aggregating two lakh sq metres is estimated at Rs 50 crore, though the authorities are yet to make a valuation of the four road stretches.

IndianExpress: This Teacher’s Day, as most students presented roses and greeting cards to their teachers, around 100 students of the St. Vincent’s Commerce College (Night School) showed their love for their Principal Olive Pinto in an unusual way.

Protesting ill treatment meted out to their teacher by the management, which they claim caused her to resign, students gathered outside the college premises, demanding that Pinto resume work at the school.

IndianExpress: FOLLOWING in the footsteps of the EU countries and the US, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has forwarded a proposal to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on bringing out a circle-wise telephone directory of mobile subscribers.

Speaking at the launch of BSNL’s phone book for the Pune circle, director and company secretary of Indiacom, V Srinivasa Rao said that TRAI had asked Indian Marketing Research Bureau (IMRB) to carry out a market survey on customers’ yearning for a mobile directory.

Around 48 per cent of the respondents said they wanted such a directory.

IndianExpress: The first literary conference organised by the OBC Sangharsh Samiti is scheduled on September 9 and 10.

The conference will be held at the Alpabachat Sanskritik Bhavan and will be presided over by poet Sudhakar Gaidhani.

Speaking in a press conference, President of the samiti Suresh Narke said that the two-day conference would have programmes like discussion and poem sessions.

IndianExpress:  TWO persons of Nisarga Mitra Ganesh mandal of Gondhalenagar in Hadapsar clashed on Monday night over the inclusion of office-bearers in the mandal. ‘

Tejal Kamlesh Patel (30) and Mangesh Dilip Pawar (22) have filed complaints against each other at the Hadapsar police station. PI S K Gadade said they fired at each other using their licensed revolvers.

IndianExpress: Here is some news for entrepenuers. Filling up the sales tax forms has become much easier thanks to the Maharashtra Sales Tax department that has uploaded the C, F and E forms, making them available at the click of a mouse now. Businessmen could simply order for the forms online now.

In a new move, the Sales tax department will ensure availability of the forms like C, F, H, E-1 and E-2 at the doors of the individuals who have a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN).

Individuals have to merely ensure that they log in to the official website and enroll themselves.

TechTree: SanDisk has introduced the V-Mate Video Memory Card Recorder at the IFA Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin.

The company says that the V-Mate video memory card recorder allows users to record video from video inputs such as over-the-air television as well as cable, satellite, DVD players, personal video recorders (PVRs) like TiVo and video cassette recorders (VCRs) onto their flash memory cards.

Consumers can then take their memory card from the V-Mate and insert it into their mobile phone, PDA, handheld game console like the Sony PSP, video music player, or notebook computer to play back their videos-on-the go.

TechTree: Opera Software today announced the availability of “Opera 9 for Devices” that delivers the power of web to set-top boxes, portable media players, game consoles, and other electronic devices.

Using the latest Web technology, Opera 9 for Devices delivers a fast and feature-rich Web experience, and includes expanded standard support and Widgets (fun Web programs.)

Opera 9 for Devices, based on the same core engine as the renowned Opera desktop browser, promises improved performance and Website compatibility and has already been pre-ported to popular device platforms. It allows easy integration of the browser and reduces time-to-market.

MSNBC: The heart of one of the Milky Way galaxy’s most massive star clusters harbors as many as five pinwheels, a strange and relatively newly discovered type of stellar object, astronomers say.

Initially, scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope took a close look at the Quintuplet Cluster, naming it after the five red massive and enigmatic stars found at its center. It was unclear if the stars, called “cocoon stars” for the dust surrounding them, were young or old.