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Archive for February 6, 2007
February 6, 2007 at 7:58 am
· City
indianexpress: WITH increasing generation of solid waste putting pressure on existing infrastructure in the city, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has joined hands with the International Environmental Technology Centre of the United Nations Environment Programme (IETC-UNEP) to formulate an Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) plan. It will involve environmentally sound and economically acceptable means of managing solid waste at all stages — from generation to disposal — in the city.
The integrated plan will be formulated by a working group comprising representatives of the PMC, Pimpri-Chichwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) and regulatory bodies like the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) through a series of meetings and workshops that commenced on January 29. It will be a comprehensive system dealing with all kinds of solid waste from municipal to biomedical, construction, industrial and electronic waste.
“In February and March, we will have meetings with various organisations like the Indian Medical Association to discuss stakeholder specific issues,” Director of the Environmental Management Centre (EMC) Prasad Modak, who has been appointed by the IETC-UNEP as consultant to PMC for the ISWM Plan, said.
While the draft of the ISWM plan will come up for discussion in the final workshop in March, PMC deputy medical officer R R Pardeshi said it would be fully operational by June. “After securing approval from all the bodies concerned, including the standing committee, the plan should be operational between May and June,” he said.
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February 6, 2007 at 7:57 am
· City
indianexpress: NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Neha has great aspirations for the future. Daughter of a domestic help, she dreams of a job in a BPO. But without any English or computer skills, she is unable to secure a job, and her parents cannot afford her education.
Ranjit, 21, who helps his father run their laundry dreams of making it big in the software industry. But without funds and the required know-how, he doesn’t know where to begin.
For youngsters like Neha and Ranjit, hope has come in the form of Smile Foundation, a Delhi-based trust that will be launching a vocational programme in the city, to train economically underprivileged youth in computer skills and English language. The twin e-learning programme is set for launch in a total of 40 cities, and is projected to benefit 50,000 adolescents.
The project will aim at Std X or XII passed adolescents who are unemployed. It will equip them with a basic knowledge of computers and spoken English.
For this purpose, Smile will develop a special training curriculum, and will also cover capital costs including providing computers and hardware at the centres. The final implementation will be carried out in partnership with like-minded organisations, including NGOs, educational institutes, and even Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) wings of private companies
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February 6, 2007 at 7:55 am
· City
indianexpress: THERE is a possibility that one might see doctors in uniform manning Primary Health Centres (PHCs). The Armed Forces is seriously considering a proposal of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to take over the PHCs in the rural areas of the country, Surg Vice Admiral V K Singh, Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) said on Monday.
Speaking to media persons after inaugurating the interventional radiology centre (IRC) at the AFMC, Surg Vice Admiral Singh pointed that the proposal has now been sent to the Ministry of Defence.
Surg Vice Admiral Singh admitted that there was a dearth of civilian doctors at PHCs located in the remote corners. He however mentioned that although the forces are ready to contribute to the task, there is need for enough human resources. “We are willing to take up this proposal. But a matching manpower should be provided by the government,” he said.
He pointed out that at present the Armed Forces has a strength of 5,500 doctors to cater mainly to the Armed Forces personnel and their families in addition to the doctors recruited for the paramilitary forces at the coast guard.
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February 6, 2007 at 7:54 am
· City · Current Affairs
indianexpress: THE city witnessed elected-related violence in Sahakarnagar and Swargate areas of the city on Sunday night. In the first incident, the Sahakarnagar police have arrested four supporters of Congress candidate Shivlal Bhosale from ward no 132 for allegedly assaulting Dhankawdi resident Guruprasad Ananta Renuse (27) on Sunday night .
The accused have been identified as Navnath Tanaji Yadav (21),Vishal Sudam Salunkhe (20), Nitin Dattatreya Renuse (24) and Abhay Kaluram Shinde (22).They were produced before judicial magistrate first class Jyoti Purkar on Monday. Renuse and Salunkhe were remanded in police custody up to February 12 while Yadav and Shinde have been sent to judicial custody.
The four accused along with twelve other supporters of Bhosale quarreled with Renuse and assaulted him and seven others with swords and iron rods for not campaigning for Bhosale. According to the police, Bhosale’s supporters had put up an election booth opposite Renuse’s house and asked him to canvas for Bhosale. Renuse refused since he was working for the government.
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February 6, 2007 at 7:53 am
· City · Health
indianexpress: THE Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) will open a super-specialty hospital in the premises of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Cantonment General Hospital. Apart from catering to cancer and cardio diseases, the hospital will also have an Intensive Critical Care Unit (ICCU), orthopaedics, trauma care centre and other facilities like labs and CT scans. With an initial budget of Rs 18 crore (Rs 8 crore for construction and Rs 10 crore for equipment) the hospital is expected to come up within two years.
“There are no super-specialty hospital in the cantonment area. Patients in serious conditions have to be shifted to other hospitals from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Cantonment General Hospital. A super-specialty hospital will cater to patients in the cantonment area and PCB employees,” said PCB Cantonment Executive Officer S K Sardana.
Cantonment residents will get a special discount of 20-25 per cent on medical bills. “Though the scheme is at a conceptual stage, some discount will surely be made available,” Sardana said.
The nurses and doctors’ quarters that are in a dilapidated condition in the Cantonment Hospital will be razed to provide space for the new facility. Though the number of beds in the hospital hinges on the super-specialty and the needs Sardana said it will be a 100-bed hospital.
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February 6, 2007 at 7:51 am
· City
indianexpress: To increase connectivity between Lohegaon airport and the city, the Pune Municipal Transport launched a bus service between Deccan Gymkhana and Lohegaon airport on an experimental basis on Sunday.
PMT spokesperson D A Pardeshi said the decision was taken after receiving a request from the airport staff and passengers to provide bus service between the airport and the city.
He said a low-floor bus will ply on the route via Yerawada, Hotel Blue Diamond, Pune Railway Station and Pune Municipal Corporation. The fare for the airport to Pune Station is Rs 25 while that for the distance between airport to Deccan Gymkhana is Rs 40. There is no extra charge for luggage.
Pardeshi said the timings of bus are to be finalised after studying the load factor on the route for a couple of days.
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February 6, 2007 at 7:48 am
· Technology
contentsutra: Finnish handset maker Nokia plans to do a trial of its mobile television broadcasting in India. The trial, using Nokia’s open standards based digital video broadcast handheld technology (DVB-H), is expected to be done early 2007 in association with state-run Doordarshan, reports Reuters. Nokia has chosen India because it’s the world’s fastest growing mobile market and it also has a significant marketshare in India.
“During this pilot, Doordarshan will test the reception quality of the broadcast coverage, and explore the myriad of options of supporting different service schemes, such as advertising and interactive services,” Nokia said in a statement. In India, other mobile TV technologies are also in the process of being readied for trials. Koreans are pushing T-DMB in India, while Qualcomm is pushing MediaFlo. On the other hand, European vendors favour DVB-H for mobile TV.
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February 6, 2007 at 7:47 am
· Technology
contentsutra: Yahoo is currently beta testing OurCity, a city based mashups project in Bangalore and New Delhi, reports Techmag [via GigaOm]
There are also local language mashups for Hindi and Kannada which have bookmarks served up by Yahoo owned del.icio.us; photos are (but, of course), from Flickr, City info is from Wikipedia, events from Upcoming.org and answers from, well, Yahoo Answers. Blog content is sourced from Technorati, Delhi Livejournal Community’s Journal, Sampada Online Kannada Community and others.
Well, I’m wondering if this system is open to abuse, particularly the communities that are not entirely in Yahoo’s control or are tag based. Anyway, contextual aggregation is already here…editorial aggregation is next.
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February 6, 2007 at 7:45 am
· Technology
bbc: Riding the world’s first purpose-built hydrogen-powered motorbike may be environmentally friendly - and fun - but where does it leave its more traditional petrol-driven cousin?
The bike’s makers are confident drawbacks will be ironed out
Weird. Weird and fun. That’s what it’s like to ride the world’s first purpose-built hydrogen fuel cell motorbike.
The only noise is from the tyres and the wind whistling through your crash helmet. People don’t look around as you approach - they just stare after you’ve gone past.
The ENV (Emissions Neutral Vehicle, envy for short) accelerates like a 125cc scooter. It’s smooth and easy to control, will do 50mph and has a range of 100 miles.
All that, and the only garbage you’re belching into the atmosphere is water vapour.
There are three great big catches though.
Firstly, the bike itself may be completely green, but producing hydrogen isn’t.
At present, the bulk of it comes from using up fossil fuels. The whole process isn’t as polluting as producing oil but it still has an impact.
Secondly, where do you fill up? Hydrogen is easy to buy, costs about the same as petrol, but virtually no petrol stations sell it.
So unless you’re prepared to carry a spare canister around with you, you’d better be careful where you ride.
Thirdly, the first bikes could cost you upwards of £6,000. That’s a lot for a small bike.
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February 6, 2007 at 7:43 am
· Technology
itwire: Despite deals with Google and Yahoo, mobile phone operators want to create their own search engine, ensuring more of the advertising revenue flows to operators rather than the established search engines.
At the upcoming 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, a yearly conference put on by most of the world’s major mobile/cell phone operators, a new initiative is planned – a mobile operator search engine to compete with Google and Yahoo.
Given the mobile phone operators’ propensity to try and fence users into a walled-garden of content, questions are arising as to how good this idea really is, especially in an age where no-one seems to be able to outsearch Google – not even Microsoft after years of trying.
However the aim is to make money – a powerful motivator in times of declining revenue from voice minutes, in the face of competition from the likes of Skype and other VoIP providers.
In recent times, mobile operators seem to be trying everything and anything to make money, from mobile TV services, music download services and more realistic (cheaper!) roaming plans, as operator 3 mobile has undertaken with its ‘3 like home’ service, guaranteeing the same call rates as home when overseas, and when on a network also owned by 3 mobile.
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