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IndianExpress:  VANRAI founder Mohan Dharia called off his hunger strike on Tuesday morning after Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh met him and promised that his demands would be tabled for approval of the State legislature and the Centre within 15 days. Earlier, Dharia, who was had been fasting for eight days to protest against farmers’ suicides, got himself discharged from Poona Hospital and returned to Vanrai’s office.

“Dharia’s demands would be put before the Cabinet. Once approved them, they would be tabled before the legislature this winter session. The State government will bear the financial burden of waiving off farmers’ loans in accordance with its capacity. However, such a decision cannot be taken by any single person. That is why Dharia’s demands would be placed before the cabinet,’’ Deshmukh said.

Deshmukh said the State government was deeply concerned about Dharia’s health. “The State government’s efforts are sincere in finding a solution to farmers’ suicides,’’ he said.

IndianExpress:  Even as the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) readies itself to spend the approved corpus of Rs 1100 crore as part of its Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) plan, it will now have to take into account the infrastructure requirements of areas falling under Pune Cantonment Board jurisdiction.

The PCB on Monday received a letter from the Ministry of Urban Development that spells out that the comprehensive city development plan (CDP) for Pune will have to address infrastructure needs pertaining to water supply, sewage and solid waste management in the PCB areas.

The cost of this infrastructure development, however, will have to be borne by the PCB. ‘‘PMC will revise its CDP by including the cantonment CDP in it. However, the money will have to borne by the cantonment itself,’’ said PMC commissioner Nitin Kareer.

IndianExpress: PMC’s Standing committee gave approval to the proposal empowering the Municipal Commissioner to raise loan for purchase of 200 new PMT buses.

The decision comes after the PMT’s attempts to take loan of Rs 39 crore from Cosmos Bank failed. The PMT needs to raise the money at the earliest as chasis of 150 buses have already come to Pune.

In his proposal, Municipal Commissioner Nitin Kareer has recommended four options for raising the money —100 per cent loan from Central Bank of India at 9.15 per cent interest rate, loan of 60 per cent of the required amount from Central Bank at 9.15 per cent interest rate and PMC giving loan of the remaining 40 per cent money at 8.50 per cent interest rate, the PMC providing the entire amount as loan at 8.15 per cent interest rate and raising loan from any other bank at 9.15 per cent

IndianExpress: PMC’s Standing committee gave approval to the proposal empowering the Municipal Commissioner to raise loan for purchase of 200 new PMT buses.

The decision comes after the PMT’s attempts to take loan of Rs 39 crore from Cosmos Bank failed. The PMT needs to raise the money at the earliest as chasis of 150 buses have already come to Pune.

In his proposal, Municipal Commissioner Nitin Kareer has recommended four options for raising the money —100 per cent loan from Central Bank of India at 9.15 per cent interest rate, loan of 60 per cent of the required amount from Central Bank at 9.15 per cent interest rate and PMC giving loan of the remaining 40 per cent money at 8.50 per cent interest rate, the PMC providing the entire amount as loan at 8.15 per cent interest rate and raising loan from any other bank at 9.15 per cent

IndianExpress: HAVING already become the favoured destination for the software and BPO companies, Pune will now also be a monitoring centre for multi-lingual cyber attacks. With world leader in cyber security Symantec setting up its security response lab at its development centre here, an elite team of experts will keep track of the notorious viruses, Trojan horse, worms, root kits and honey pots that affect Internet users worldwide.

“Pune was a choice for us because of the high quality human resource available in this part of the world,” said senior director (Development) Vincent Weafer.

The facility, along with seven other similar labs across the world, will monitor cyber security incidents and track vulnerabilities of its products.
 

TechTree: At the recently concluded 3G summit in Mumbai, Texas Instruments India announced “eCosto,” its OMAP-Vox single-chip solution meant to foster the development of low cost multimedia rich phones.

The first product of this new platform will be the OMAPV1035 single-chip solution, to be manufactured in 65-nanometer (nm) and supporting GSM, GPRS, and EDGE standards.

“eCosto” showcases the latest developments in TI’s sophisticated DRP technology, and applies digital technology to simplify radio frequency (RF) processing in advanced CMOS process technology.

By integrating the RF transceiver and analog codec with digital baseband, the platform considerably reduces board space, extends battery life, and makes for a more powerful and versatile handset.

TechTree: At the recently concluded 3G summit in Mumbai, Texas Instruments India announced “eCosto,” its OMAP-Vox single-chip solution meant to foster the development of low cost multimedia rich phones.

The first product of this new platform will be the OMAPV1035 single-chip solution, to be manufactured in 65-nanometer (nm) and supporting GSM, GPRS, and EDGE standards.

“eCosto” showcases the latest developments in TI’s sophisticated DRP technology, and applies digital technology to simplify radio frequency (RF) processing in advanced CMOS process technology.

By integrating the RF transceiver and analog codec with digital baseband, the platform considerably reduces board space, extends battery life, and makes for a more powerful and versatile handset.

TechTree: Toshiba has announced the latest addition to its high capacity SDHC memory cards; the SD-HC008, which is touted as the industry’s first 8 Gigabyte (GB) Class 4 memory card.

Class 4 is the SD (Secure Digital) Speed Class that requires high speed writing of at least 4MB per second, up to 6MB per second.

With this, Toshiba has become the first company to announce the launch of a Class 4 8GB SDHC memory card.

According to the company, the card is based on the SD Card Association’s SD Specifications Ver2.00 that defines high capacity, high performance enhancements to market-leading SD memory cards. The new card also meets the Class 4 standard, a speed standard that requires a data write speed of at least 4GB/second.

TechTree: After Radeon X1950 Pro, Sapphire has announced the new ultimate edition “Ultimate X1950 Pro”, which is around 5 percent faster than the standard version.

The ultimate edition comes with the highly acclaimed Zalman Heatpipe cooler. According to the company, the quiet and efficient cooler and discrete memory heatsinks will give enthusiasts the scope to tune their performance further.

With a 256-bit memory interface, the Ultimate edition supports 256 MB GDDR3 memory. The hardware features of the card include ShaderModel 3.0 and DirectX 9. In addition, it also features the Avivo Video and Display engine. Basically, it has all the features of a standard X1950 Pro.