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Archive for March 22, 2007
March 22, 2007 at 8:02 am
· City
indianexpress: For the hundreds of farmers gathered at Landewadi village, located 80 kms from here, it was about erasing the painful memories of a 100-year-old tradition that got disrupted last year on account of objections raised by animal rights activists. On Wednesday, they had reason to cheer, and lustily at that, when the hooves of over 300 bullocks thundered down the makeshift racecourse, bringing back to life Bhairavnatha Maharaj Yatra Utsav, a traditional festival that they were forced to skip last year.
The village wore a festive look with farmers from Shirur, Ambegaon, Manchar, Nagar and other taluka places overcrowding the huge ground. Sarpanch of the village Ramdas Adhalrao announced over the mike: “First prize Rs 27,000 and a gold ring. Any takers…”.
The response was overwhelming. Hundreds of bullock carts soon filled the maidan. And the race that pitted three bullock carts at a time began - something that will go on for a good part of the day. There can be any number of winners as those bullock carts that cover the 425-feet-long dirt track will get to divide the prize money.
“We take out processions and honour these animals that till our land. And the race is a source of entertainment for these farmers. There are loads of prizes which are sponsored by villagers themselves,” said Shivajirao Adhalrao, Khed MP who hails from Landewadi village.
Last year the Animal Welfare Board and the Maharashtra government had cracked down on these races and prevented them from being held on the grounds of cruelty against animals. According to Adhlarao the ban was on bull fights and not bullock cart races. “It took us a year to prove them wrong but the government finally issued a fresh resolution allowing these races,” Adhalrao said.
“It is a joyous occasion for us, “ said the chairman of the bullock cart race committee B D Adhalrao. “It is not so much for the money but for their bullocks and this is one way they can show them off,” he said. The celebrations will spill over to the next two days, with a luncheon being hosted at the village primary school and ‘tamasha’ to follow.
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March 22, 2007 at 8:01 am
· City · Education
indianexpress: Parents of students appearing for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination are up in arms over the alleged variable distribution of difficulty levels for mathematics examinations conducted on Tuesday (algebra) and Wednesday (geometry). To avoid copying, the mathematics paper consists of four different sets of question papers, each differing from the other by up to 100 per cent. Students claim that while the question papers A, C, and D were comparatively easy, the B question paper set comprised questions that were not from the syllabus.
Some 80 parents of students from various schools who wrote both the papers held a meeting on Wednesday, following which they went to the office of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, where representatives met with Pune Divisional Board Chairman Digambar Deshmukh on the issue. The parents have also submitted a letter to the Board.
“Initially we thought that although the algebra paper was difficult, we would make up for it in the geometry paper. But the geometry paper was equally tough,” said a student.
Parents contend that having different difficulty levels in different question papers is discriminatory. “How can you use different difficulty levels to evaluate students appearing for the same exam?” demanded a parent.
According to educational experts, the algebra and geometry question papers are in order. As per rules of the State Board, each paper is set according to four difficulty levels Group A, B, C and D. Group A questions are easy and account for 40 marks of 100. Group B and C questions are of moderate difficulty level and account for 20 marks each (amounting to another 40 marks). Finally, the Group D questions are of high difficulty level.
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March 22, 2007 at 8:00 am
· City · Politics
indianexpress: The posts of president and vice president of Pune Zilla Parishad went to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) unanimously on Wednesday, thanks to withdrawal of Congress candidates from the fray and non-participation of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena from the election process.
Vaishali Abane from Daund taluka became the president of Zilla Parishad while Sharad Lende Patil from Junnar taluka became the vice president. Pune Zilla Parishad is getting a woman president after a gap of seven years.
The Zilla Parishad top posts were slated to go to the NCP as with its strength of 45 in the house, the party has a majority. The Congress has 13 members, six of Shiv Sena, two of BJP and Janata Dal each and seven independents.
Because the NCP has clear majority, Abane and Lende Patil’s victory became near certain in the morning when their candidature was approved by the party leadership during the meeting of the parliamentary board. However, wanting to assert itself, the party leaders had discussions with BJP and Shiv Sena leadership. Meanwhile, Congress had announced candidatures of Mahadeo Misal from Indapur taluka for the post of president and Rahul Kapare from Daund taluka for the post of vice president. Accordingly, both filed their nominations.
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March 22, 2007 at 7:59 am
· City
indianexpress: The Pune Regional Transport Office (RTO) faced a difficult time as its electricity supply was cut off resulting in a black out for around 36 hours since Tuesday afternoon. The black out was the result of a technical snag in the transformer of the RTO.
The Pune RTO is considered to be one of the transport authorities with the highest workload in the state. With the new system of Smart Cards, over 1,000 people visit the RTO daily to obtain learning and smart license and also renewal of their old licenses.
However, on Tuesday afternoon, after the electricity supply was hit, the Optical Smart Card and Smart Card system collapsed, as the system operates on biometrics — photograph, signature and thumb impression — to be saved in the chip.
The visitors were then requested to come on Wednesday assuming that the supply will resume by evening. However, till Wednesday morning, the supply was not brought to normal.
Meanwhile, the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Corporation Limited (MSEDCL) and Public Works Department (PWD) officials visited the transformer to check on the snag. Deputy RTO Jeevan Bansod said that the situation worsened as the backup generator had also failed on Tuesday. Further, the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) also exhausted after some time.
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March 22, 2007 at 7:58 am
· City · Environment
indianexpress: ”There is no one individual, no one organisation, no committee behind this initiative. Every citizen of Pune who is willing to cycle for a better environment is this movement’s leader,” says an appeal issued by a group of cycle enthusiasts here on Wednesday.
Taking inspiration from Copenhagen, Denmark, where 36 per cent of the citizens commute by bicycle, these enthusiasts have appealed to Puneites to observe the first Sunday of the every month as a ‘Green Day’ by riding their bicycles instead of automobiles.
The ‘Green Day’ will commence from April 1, which coincides with the beginning of a new financial year, Chaitra Poornima, Hanuman Jayanti and Id-e-Milad. The idea is to introduce a day every month which is free of pollution caused by private vehicles.
“The motorists can use cycles or enjoy a walk on Sunday with their family and friends,” says the appeal, signed among others by Subhash Karmarkar, Colonel Satish Kumar, Prabha Nene, Sadhana Khadilkar and many more
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March 22, 2007 at 7:57 am
· City · Mishaps
indianexpress: Two persons were killed in a road accident when the motorcycle they were riding was hit by a speeding truck in a head-on collision near Empress Botanical Garden on Tuesday night.
The deceased have been identified as Ravi Harish Chandra Rathod (30) and Subhash Kisan Rathod (35), both residents of a slum near Jagtap Chowk in Wanavdi. According to the Wanavdi police, the deceased along with their friend Narayan Bandar Rathod (25), who escaped unhurt were on their way to Pune railway station from their residence when the mishap took place near the octroi post close to Morwada bridge. Ravi Rathod, who collapsed on the road, tried to get up but was run over by another unidentified speeding truck. He died on the spot. Subhash Rathod who was seriously injured was rushed to Sassoon Hospital where he succumbed to injuries, the police said.
Meanwhile, the police have a registered a case against the two unidentified truck drivers and charged them for rash and negligent driving. PSI HY Patil is investigating the case.
“All three are from Andhra Pradesh and were working as construction labourers. They were riding triple seat on a two-wheeler when the truck hit them, killing two,” he said.
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March 22, 2007 at 7:54 am
· Technology
techtree: Kingston Technology has announced its new DataTraveler Reader.
The company says the DataTraveler Reader is a USB 2.0 flash memory drive that provides up to 4GB of flash storage, and includes an onboard SD/MMC expansion slot for reading nine different flash memory card formats, including SD, SDHC, miniSD, microSD, MMC, MMCplus, RS-MMC, MMCmobile, and MMCmicro card formats.
Speaking on the occasion, Rajesh Panicker, Country Manager - India, Kingston, said, “Consumers today are more mobile than ever before, and the need to store and share digital information has increased dramatically. The DataTraveler Reader is a powerful way to capture, save, and share pictures, videos, and documents in a safe and ultra-compact form factor.”
The DataTraveler Reader, which is available in storage capacities of 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB, is compatible with both Mac (OS 10.x or later), and Windows (2000, XP, and Vista) platforms.
When the DataTraveler Reader is inserted into a computer’s USB port, it is assigned two drive letters (for example, G:\ and H:\). One drive letter is assigned to the Reader’s internal storage, while the other is designated for the expansion slot. Users can quickly and easily work with both drives to either transfer files to the computer, or between the USB drive and the flash memory card inside the DataTraveler Reader.
Meanwhile, the DataTraveler Reader will be available in India by the end of this month through a network of the company’s distributors, including AA Infoways, Avnet India, Ingram Micro, Kobian Electronics, and Transtek Infoways. Pricing will be revealed upon availability
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March 22, 2007 at 7:53 am
· Technology
techtree: IBM and Idea Cellular Limited (Idea) have entered into a 10-year business transformation partnership, wherein IBM would integrate, innovate, and transform Idea’s business processes and IT infrastructure.
The deal, which has been designed on an innovative risk-reward revenue sharing model, covers all of Idea’s existing operations and potential new additions. It is learnt the 10-year partnership size will be around $600 million to $800 million, depending upon Idea’s business revenues and circle expansion.
Speaking on the occasion, Sanjeev Aga, Managing Director, Idea Cellular, said, “Idea is focused on innovation-led growth. Our partnership with IBM will bring value to our customers, employees, and shareholders. And by getting IBM’s platform, we will not only be better positioned in this competitive market, but will also improve our service levels that directly go to our customers.”
“We will harness IBM’s power to support Idea’s explosive growth with robust, best-in-class solutions that address scalability, complexity, accountability, innovation, and cost control, to provide Idea with the most advanced business processes globally,” added Aga.
The partnership between Idea and IBM will enable Idea to accelerate time-to-market of new services; leverage opportunities from convergence of voice, data, video, and wireless technologies; add new revenue streams; empower business with analytics tools; improve end-to-end customer management; and provide advanced revenue assurance capabilities.
The deal will also allow Idea to meet the needs of its 14 million current subscribers.
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March 22, 2007 at 7:52 am
· Technology
itwire: Images from the Hinode space observatory show the Sun’s magnetic field is more turbulent than previously thought.
By taking coordinated measurements with Hinode’s optical, x-ray and ultraviolet instruments, researchers are learning how changes in the Sun’s magnetic field release energy that travels into space.
This energy is important as it drives space weather, which affects communications on Earth and can damage satellites and have adverse health consequences for astronauts.
“Hinode images are revealing irrefutable evidence for the presence of turbulence-driven processes that are bringing magnetic fields, on all scales, to the sun’s surface, resulting in an extremely dynamic chromosphere or gaseous envelope around the sun,” said Alan Title, a corporate senior fellow at Lockheed Martin and consulting professor of physics at Stanford University.
Hinode (Japanese for ’sunrise’) was launched on 23 September 2006. The mission is led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and involves institutes in the United States (coordinated by NASA), and in the United Kingdom (coordinated by PPARC).
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March 22, 2007 at 7:50 am
· Technology
dailytech: Skype made it easy for members to send money but did not indicate whether the service would be free
Skype’s co-founder Niklas Zennstrom announced this week that beginning shortly, Skype will offer its users the ability to send money to other Skype users via PayPal. Zennstom spoke at a technology conference in the San Francisco Bay Area and said that his company had entered into a partnership with PayPal since PayPal’s online money transferring service was deemed as the most popular.
What users are wondering at this time is whether or not Skype users will be forced to pay the same fees as regular PayPal users. PayPal has a long history of complaints from its users, primarily eBay merchants that complain about rates and fees being too high.
Zennstrom did not speak of any fees but also did not confirm that the new service would be free. “You can send money over Skype. This is basically connecting the Skype community over PayPal. All the user needs is a PayPal account,” said Zennstrom.
Both Skype and PayPal belong to eBay and Skype currently holds roughly 171 million registered users worldwide. No formal announcements have been made in regards to the Skype-PayPal service but Zennstrom indicated that the service would officially launch in roughly one month’s time.
“A lot of people using Skype are people who have friends and family on the other side of the world,” Zennstrom said.
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