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Archive for March 25, 2007
March 25, 2007 at 8:19 am
· City
indianexpress: Open spaces in the city seem to be under siege by the city police, no matter that some of these are owned by the state government itself. Close on the heels of the case of the Wanawdi Police encroaching on land owned by UCO Bank for 17 long years coming to be known, another instance of unauthorised and illegal occupation - this time round by the Hadapsar Traffic Police - has been brought to light.
Unlike in the earlier case, it is the state government itself that had to bear the brunt of the police encroachment - the State Irrigation Department, this time the illegal occupation has been going on for eight years, since 1999.
The irregularities of the Hadapsar traffic police came to light after an Right to Information (RTI) activist sought information on the illegal construction of traffic chowki on the irrigation land at Survey No 152/1, Hadapsar on Pune-Solapur Road. In reply to the RTI query, Executive Engineer of Khadakvasla Irrigation Department said the structure was illegal with no prior permission taken by the police department.
The Irrigation Department has till date served four notices to the Police asking them to demolish the illegal construction at the earliest. However, neither the police has bothered to reply to the demand nor removed the unauthorised construction despite. This, despite the Irrigation Department notices categorically stating that unauthorised construction on government land without permission was a crime.
Instead, the police have secured this area and turned the earlier makeshift temporary shed set up in 1999 into a cement concrete structure with a fencing on all sides. As if adding insult to injury, the traffic police have begun utilising the adjoining land for parking towing tempos, dumping unclaimed and towed vehicles there.
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March 25, 2007 at 8:18 am
· City
indianexpress: Slamming the state government in general and Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh in particular for ignoring the water problem in the state, executive chairperson of Maharashtra Pani Parishad, Balasaheb Vikhe-Patil on Saturday demanded an immediate survey of dams, river water-linking and initiating of projects.
“If the water problems in the state are solved, agriculture problems and farmers suicides too will stop,” he said.
Vikhe-Patil said the state should target to provide an additional 680 TMC water to cater to 25 lakh hectare of land in the region that will help create jobs for 1.5 crore people.
Currently the area under irrigation in the state is 225 lakh hectares. Vikhe-Patil also suggested that Godavari and its tributaries be given priority in the survey. “Only 4.6 per cent of Vidarbha and Marathwada region is under irrigation. The survey will help in tapping more water,” he said.
Discussions regarding planning of water and irrigation in the state were organised at the Vikhe-Patil Foundation by the MPP, in the wake of preparation of the Central Budget and 11th Five Year Plan. Vikhe-Patil said that the National Water Development Authority had sent letters to all the states to initiate the survey but it was only Mahrashtra whose letter the authority had not received. “The state government lacks the will and aggression to solve the water and irrigation problem,” he said.
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March 25, 2007 at 8:17 am
· City
indianexpress: Vanita Hadke, 16, walks 14 km to school every day. With no slippers to protect her feet from the sun-scorched tar roads, she braves the commute through arid, deserted landscape just to be in school — a journey that takes her no less than three hours, one way.
For several students like Hadke in the tribal belt of Maval taluka, who fight against all odds to complete their education at Maval’s only secondary school - Varsubai Madhyamik Vidyalaya at Malegaon Budruk –each day at school is a new victory.
Today, moved by their grit and perseverance in following their dream, Hinjewadi-based valve-manufacturing company Virgo Engineers has volunteered to adopt the school, not only providing bicycles to students like Hadke, but facilitating a complete makeover of the school, which is plagued by problems of poor infrastructure and a growing drop-out rate.
“With a total student population of just 53 students, the school runs three classes for standard VIII, IX and X. While the passing percentage is barely 20 per cent, the dropout rate is also very high, with only ten of every 50 students making it to standard X,” says principal Rajesh Gaikwad.
With no electricity except a single supply line to the principal’s makeshift office, students are forced to study in unlit classrooms. This situation is worse for the standard X boys who sleep in the school, spending the night in classrooms that leak during the monsoon. A rickety bamboo-walled library-cum-staff room and open play area add to the dingy classrooms, and all civilization — including a doctor — is miles away.
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March 25, 2007 at 8:16 am
· City
indianexpress: Reacting to recent news reports about the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) CEO SK Sardana being rapped by a former president of the board for recommending an inquiry against a suspended official without his knowledge, newly appointed PCB President, Brigadier RJ Sharma said he would comment on the issue only after studying it.
Brig Sharma said: “Right now, I cannot comment on the letter.” He was addressing media persons on the sidelines of first General Body meeting held under his chairmanship.
Brig VK Bhatt, who was the officiating president of the board for a month in January, had written a strongly-worded letter saying that while he had approved the suspension of former chief revenue officer SM Pillay, no inquiry had been ordered by him into the matter.
The letter addressed to the Sardana said Bhatt was shocked to see the minutes of the meeting that were circulated to him indicating an inquiry. A copy of the letter is available with Pune Newsline. Pillay was suspended, among other reasons, for brokering a property tax deal that allegedly caused a loss of several crores of rupees to the board.
The letter further says that the inquiry was null and void as it had not been passed by Bhatt and had to be deleted from the CBR.
“You have not produced any preliminary investigation reports into the alleged losses in front of the board or the undersigned till date which is a prerequisite under rule 14 inquiry,” Brig Bhatt said in the letter. He also directed the CEO to bring up the matter before the board at the earliest.
Brig Sharma said: “Don’t give negative publicity to the board. Give us time to provide the public with an efficient and transparent administration.”
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March 25, 2007 at 8:14 am
· City
indianexpress: Located at a picturesque spot at the foothills of Sinhagad fort, Hotel Holiday Inn was one of the most happening places in the vicinity till the third week of January. For the hotel, the business end of the week started on Friday, picked up pace on Saturday before winding up late on Sunday night or in the wee hours of Monday morning. Today, this hotel wears a deserted look, just as is the case with at least 40 other hotels and lodges on Sinhagad road.
The reason: A crackdown by District Superintendent of Police (Pune rural) Vishwas Nangare Patil on January 21 that led to the police picking up 102 couples from 35 hotels/ lodges there. Though the police filed cases of obscene behaviour in public places against the couples, no case of immoral trafficking has been filed against any one of them.
However, the police may soon urge the District Collector to close down the hotels and lodges operating “illegally” in Khadakvasla, Sinhagad Khanapur and Panshet areas.
Additional Superintendent of Police (Pune, Rural) Ashok Morale admitted that such a move was planned. “We are collecting information on cases filed against hotels and lodges for illegal operations to prepare a formal proposal. The proposal will be sent to the District Collector,” he said.
The move is slated to be opposed by the hotel owners who are already worried about the loss of business ever since the police crackdown and its effect on the local economy.
“The hotels are not in any illegal operations. Erroneous impression that they are hubs of prostitution is being made. After January 21, no case of prostitution was filed. Our clientele are decent people who want to spend quality time at the picturesque locations,” said Nana Balkawade, who owns one of the hotels in the area.
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March 25, 2007 at 8:13 am
· City
indianexpress: The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) organised a pre-budget seminar Budget 2007 on Saturday at the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (MCCIA) on Saturday.
The seminar started with a scintillating presentation by IIPM students on Impact Analysis and Pre-Budget Survey that brought out some interesting findings — 46 per cent of the respondents said the service tax be reduced but 43 per cent were of the opinion that the best way to improve the country’s infrastructure is through public-private partnership (PPP), 40 per cent were of the opinion that a ‘Dream Budget’ is the one which creates more employment and leads to increased GDP growth and 47 per cent respondents were of the opinion that P Chidambaram is the India’s best finance minister in recent times.
Speaking on the occasion Madhuri Dandekar, CFO, Tata Toyo Radiators Pvt Ltd explained points in a budget to help the audience understand the budget in a simplified manner when it is presented and spoke about the expectations of the automotive industry from the budget.
Satish Shewalkar, GM, Finance, Alfa Laval, gave an overview of the expectations of the industry from the budget 2007 and Chandrakant Chitale, Treasurer (MCCIA) spoke on Withdrawal Tax and Fringe Benefit Tax and drew attention towards the problems that these taxes would be creating. Vinesh Kriplani, Partner (Direct Taxes), Ernst & Young (E&Y), Pune, shared his views on the tax system in India and its regulatory framework and the EET (Exempt, Exempt, Tax) regime that the finance minister is trying to usher in — while savings and accruals would be exempted, withdrawals would henceforth be taxed.
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March 25, 2007 at 8:10 am
· Technology
cnet: A security researcher at ShmooCon on Saturday demonstrated, but did not release, a tool that turns the PCs of unknowing Web surfers into hacker help.
As expected, SPI Dynamics researcher Billy Hoffman demonstrated a Web application vulnerability scanner written in JavaScript. The tool, called Jikto, can make an unsuspecting Web user’s PC silently crawl and audit public Web sites, and send the results to a third party, Hoffman said.
But, in a change of plans, Hoffman did not publicly release Jikto. “The higher-ups first say we can, and then they change their mind,” he said after his presentation. “We decided to focus on the educational message and show people the danger.”
Another SPI Dynamics representative at ShmooCon said the company had decided not to release Jikto because that could play into the hands of cybercrooks. “We do not want to release anything that could be used for malicious purposes,” said Michael Sutton, a security evangelist for the company, which sells Web security tools.
Hoffman said he demonstrated Jikto to raise awareness. Vulnerabilities in Web sites could be exploited to inject malicious JavaScript code, which puts users at serious risk, he said. Jikto itself, for example, can be placed on a trusted site by exploiting a common Web security hole known as a cross-site scripting flaw, he said.
“The whole point was to show how scary cross-site scripting has become,” Hoffman said. While some in the security industry claim such flaws are minor, Hoffman has demonstrated that they could be serious, particularly in combination with JavaScript. “This is code execution,” he said. “JavaScript completely blows away the security model.”
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March 25, 2007 at 8:09 am
· Technology
pcworld: Tungle is taking applications for beta users version of its plug-in application, which is designed to let users create a peer-to-peer network of people for the sole purpose of simplifying the process of scheduling meetings.
Tungle, which plugs into calendar applications, allows users to view blocks of time their contacts are free in order to schedule meetings. That can help cut down on the back-and-forth that often happens when people try to coordinate meetings.
Currently, Tungle supports only Microsoft Outlook 2003, but it will work with all Outlook versions by the end of April and with Google’s Google Calendar in June, while support for IBM’s Notes will come later, said Marc Gingras, Tungle’s chief executive officer.
Because Tungle is a PC application, Gingras foresees its adoption will be from the ground up, as opposed to prompted by IT departments. Also, initial users are likely to be individuals in small businesses, which usually lack the money to purchase groupware servers, he said.
The company expects Tungle’s growth to be viral, given that people will encourage whoever they need to coordinate their schedules with to download it: family members, friends, co-workers, clients and the like.
As a P-to-P network, Tungle doesn’t store information on a central server. All data exchanges are encrypted.
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March 25, 2007 at 8:07 am
· Technology
cnet: You can hold Celsia’s new cooling component for about three seconds. Then your fingers start to feel as if they’re getting burned.
It’s part of a new line of components from the San Jose, Calif.-based company that it says will cool off torrid hotspots inside computers and light fixtures running light emitting diodes (LEDs) better than conventional heat pipes or fans.
Feeling is believing. In the corporate demonstration, a person stirs a cup of hot water with a stick of copper. It takes about five seconds or so to feel a gradual warming sensation. The human guinea pig then stirs with one of the company’s heat spreaders: the rapid rise in temperature is noticeable before two seconds elapse. Holding the NanoSpreader for five seconds is nearly impossible.
The sudden rush of heat occurs because steam is being created inside the NanoSpreader, said George Meyer, director of development at the company, which was re-launched in 2006. The exterior of the device is a copper sleeve that absorbs heat from a processor or a hard drive.
The interior consists of a series of vacuum-sealed chambers and channels containing small amounts of water. The water turns to steam, which then conducts the heat from the source to another component, such as an aluminum heat sink, that can dissipate the heat into the ambient atmosphere.
“Steam conducts heat better than almost any substance out there,” he said.
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March 25, 2007 at 8:05 am
· Technology
znet: Samsung Electronics launched its groundbreaking UbiSync LCD monitor (model name: SyncMaster 940UX) which can be connected with monitors using only USB port at CeBIT 2007 in Hanover.
The new concept monitor makes multi-display significantly easier as it can be expanded to six monitors using only USB port without having to add graphic card. Even better the monitor embedded driver software installs automatically a driver into a user’s PC when the monitor and PC are connected, eliminating users inconveniences such as additional graphic card purchases and separate driver downloads and installations.
The new concept monitor makes multi-display significantly easier as it can be expanded to six monitors using only USB port without having to add graphic card. (credit : Samsung Electronics)
Moreover, the monitor’s built-in DVI, D-sub input ports and USB 2.0 hubs facilitates connectivity with other devices and enhances its functionality.The new product is expected to be welcomed by laptop users who are frustrated by small screens as well as hospital or office workers whose daily businesses involves multiple PC screens. By enabling multitasking at work and at home, this new model will be a huge success among B2B as well as among individual clients.
Ha Yoon-ho, Senior Vice President of Samsung Electronics Visual Display Division said, “Samsung Electronics will continue to establish its position as an industry trend-setter in technology by launching innovative and future-oriented products like UbiSync that will also improve users’ lifestyle. “
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