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IndianExpress: The office of Deputy Controller of Weights and Measurements — it had conducted a special drive against commercial establishments violating various rules and regulations on Tuesday and Wednesday — filed cases against 32 establishments.

A press communique said the commercial establishments were found violating norms like failing to display the name and address of the manufacturer or importer on the packages, printing Maximum Retail Price on the packages, tampering with the MRP printed on the packages and failing to display the exact weight of the contents on the package

The release said packaged food items and other goods, totally estimated to be worth Rs 41.38 lakh, were also seized during the drive for non-compliance of the laid down norms

IndianExpress: The bull run at the bourses seem to have triggered another flurry - of investors from the Pune region of the income tax department taking positions in Mutual Funds and shares. The taxmen, who are monitoring high value transactions by analysing the Annual Information Return data, will initiate action against people, who have not mentioned these investments in their returns.

They have reason to feel charged up as such transactions by investors from the Pune region exceeded Rs 3,000 crore in 2004-05.
 
According to Santosh Datta, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Pune region, the initial AIR data from 05-06 fiscal shows 1,200 transactions aggregating Rs 300 crore in the Pune region. ‘‘For the 04-05 fiscal, 10,534 high value transactions were detected, out of which, 70 per cent did not quote PAN numbers,’’ added Datta. According to him, the total value of the these transactions would roughly be around Rs 3,000 crore

IndianExpress:  After the Delhi Metro Rail Commission (DMRC) agreed to prepare a Detailed Project Report (DPR) some months ago for developing a 30-km metro rail network in the Pune Metropolitan Region comprising Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, the civic administration has now sought approval from the Standing Committee for the proposal.

Municipal commissioner Nitin Kareer has tabled a proposal before the civic panel which says Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad need ‘‘integrated transport network’’ through a multi modal transport where the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), tram, bus and metro will be used.

The DMRC will charge Rs 2.10 crore for the detailed project report which will be shared by the PMC and Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal corporations. The PCMC has already agreed to chip in with its share.

IndianExpress: Activist Vijay Kumbhar on Friday accused Pune Municipal Corporation’s Appellate Authority under the Right to Information of conducting hearing on two appeals moved by him in his absence and said he planned to complain to the Information Commissioner.

Kumbhar said on October 26 and 27 he had filed two applications — one seeking information on names of organisations who have asked for allottment of land at Lohegaon on lease basis and other demanding details of action taken against officers who failed to extend the agreement of rent with Sai Service for the period of the past 15 years.
 
In response to the first application, Kumbhar said, the civic administration did not provide him the complete information. The copies of documents provided to him on other issues were illegible, he alleged.

IndianExpress: Municipal Commissioner Nitin Kareer has forwarded a proposal to the Standing Committee to build a bund at Mundhwa-Kharadi. The Rs 14 crore project is funded by the Centre under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

According to an agreement signed by the PMC and the Public Works Department in 1997 regarding water supply, it was decided that the PMC would be provided 11.50 TMC. The agreement made it mandatory for the PMC to treat 6.50 TMC as waste water so that it can be recycled for irrigation purpose.

Construction of the bund was required to facilitate treating of the waste water. The then City Engineer (drainage) had sought PWD’s permission to construct the bund in 2000

TechTree: According to reports, Yahoo! is planning to incorporate the Yahoo! Messenger Instant Messaging (IM) service into its email service, Yahoo! Mail.

Yahoo! IM will soon be made available on Yahoo! Mail, just the way rival Google has made Google Talk available on Gmail.

This will enable Yahoo! users to run the two programs on the same browser, eliminating the need to download the Yahoo! IM software.

The company had publicly given the first demonstration of the combined service at the Web 2.0 conference at Garlinghouse. The demonstration showed how the combined service works. When users open the Yahoo! account and insert an e-mail address, an icon appears showing if the person is online or offline.

TechTree: Nvidia has unveiled the “Cuda” technology, a fundamentally new architecture for computing on Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs), and the industry’s first C-compiler development environment for the GPU.

This new computing architecture enables data processing on the GPU for next-generation commercial applications, technical computing, and advanced gaming. It enables GPU processor cores to communicate, synchronize, and share data.

Nvidia believes that Cuda is a new approach to computing, where hundreds of on-chip processor cores simultaneously communicate and cooperate to solve complex computing problems up to 100 times faster than traditional approaches.

BetaNews: Microsoft on Friday launched what it bills as a social networking site for IT professionals, called Aggreg8. The company aims for the site to become a MySpace-like forum for developers to share scripts, tools, or best practices, or even to just connect with others within the profession.

“Aggreg8 is a site for IT Pros to mix-n-mingle,” Kevin Remde, an IT Pro evangelist for Microsoft, wrote in a blog post announcing the service. “You can setup a profile, join groups, enter posts, add favorites, share content, mix, mingle, and learn.”

The site will allow users to either collaborate with fellow developers through preset working groups, or allow them to create their own. Additionally, space would be provided in the groups to allow users to post messages and files, and share events, the company said.

BetaNews: Google Toolbar increases your ability to find information from anywhere on the web. The toolbar appears along with the Internet Explorer toolbar. This means you can quickly and easily use Google to search from any website location, without returning to the Google home page to begin another search.

Google Toolbar has the following other editions available: Google Toolbar for Firefox and Google Toolbar Enterprise for Internet Explorer.