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Archive for March 31, 2007
March 31, 2007 at 8:05 am
· City
indianexpress: THE Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) has shunted out 120 buses with Euro I and Euro II engines to Sangli, Satara, Chandrapur, Amravati and other divisions and brought in 150 buses that are Euro III compliant from the 30 divisions across the State to ply from the city to various destinations.
These buses ply on routes that start from one of the three depots at Swargate, Shivajinagar and Pune station. The buses with Euro I and II engines are more polluting while the Euro III buses conform to pollution norms. The exchanges of buses comes after the Bhurelal Committee on environment pollution suggested that only Euro III complaint buses be allowed to ply from Pune.
“The committee wanted ST buses retrofitted with engines that conform to Euro III norms. Failing which, the buses would have to ply from the highways without entering the city’s three ST depots. It would have led to several problems,” an MSRTC official from Mumbai said.
Each of the 30 divisions has 2 to 4 Euro III buses. “These divisions do not require Euro III buses at present. There are plans to introduce additional buses with Euro III engines in our fleet for the rest of the divisions,” he added.
Divisional Controller P P Nimsarkar said the Euro III buses will be sent to Shivajinagar, Swargate and Pimpri-Chinchwad depots. “While our buses are better maintained and less polluting, they are often under attack for pollution even though there are other vehicles which are more polluting,” he said.
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March 31, 2007 at 8:01 am
· City
indianexpress: OWNER Suvarna Mutha has come down severely on protests against vehicular parking outside Ozone Mall, claiming they had political undertones. Refuting Aundh Vikas Mandal’s linking traffic snarls on ITI road to excess parking outside the mall, Mutha alleged that the protests were organised after former city mayor Dattatrey Gaikwad came into the picture.
The mandal had suggested that the basement of the building, which houses the mall, was being used for storage instead of parking.
But Mutha rubbished the allegations. “From the time the mall came under construction, Gaikwad has been issuing threats to me for financial favours,” Mutha said at a media conference on Friday, before adding that the ITI Road had sufficient parking area that could be converted like on MG and FC roads, ensuring parking for vehicles. “The corporators never considered this possibility. In fact, half the carriageway has been eaten away by rubble around Ozone.”
Mutha said Ozone Mall had been constructed after obtaining permission from the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). “According to the sanctioned building plan, the required area for parking two- and four-wheelers has been provided. There is no violation of this sanctioned plan,” he said. “The mall can accommodate 20 four-wheelers and 100 two-wheelers (including 25 cycles and 75 motorcycles). We try to accommodate as many vehicles in our parking place.”
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March 31, 2007 at 8:00 am
· City
indianexpress: RUMOUR mills were working overtime as the weekend approached bringing with it speculations of Nitin Kareer likely to be replaced by Pravinsinh Pardeshi, former municipal commissioner of Pimpri-Chinchwad and currently attached to the Chief Minister’s office, as the municipal commissioner of Pune.
And if the rumour mongers in official circles are to be believed Pune is the hot destination for many a bureaucrat worth his pound trying desperately to get out of Mumbai for the cooler confines of the Oxford of the East.
It seems everybody from Kareer, his counterpart in Pimpri-Chinchwad Dilip Band and district collector Prabhakar Deshmukh all want to stay put in Pune, while a host of officers in Mumbai were looking to shift here.
That the game of musical chairs had begun became evident with reports coming out that Pardeshi and Amravati divisional commissioner Sudhir Goyal were both eyeing the Pune divisional commissioner’s post that fell vacant after Prabhakar Karandikar quit last month.
When contacted Kareer said he had not received transfer orders but did not deny the rumours either. “It is likely to happen soon. By Saturday, everything should be confirmed, even the orders would have reached us,” he said.
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March 31, 2007 at 7:59 am
· City · Crime
indianexpress: EVEN as the recent rave party bust has brought the issue of increasing narcotic activity in the city into the limelight, the Commissionerate of Customs has declared that narcotic drugs including heroine, ganja and hashish valued at about Rs 1.35 crore have been seized in Pune in 2006-07.
According to the commissioner ate, the city is emerging as not only a transit centre for drugs, but also a consumption centre. “Pune is becoming a consumption point for drugs as there is a huge community of students and foreigners here. We detected four cases in Pune where narcotic drugs valued at about Rs 1.35 crore had been seized. In some of these cases, the modus operandi was using couriers, books and CDs to secretly smuggle drugs abroad,” S K Sawhney, Commissioner of Customs, Pune, said.
With narcotic activity on the rise, Sawhney said the customs commissionerate is maintaining a liaison with other law enforcement agencies to prevent illicit narcotic trade. “The recent rave party bust by the police was a result of close sharing of information between the two departments,” he said.
This year, revenue collections from customs duties imposed on imports at the three Inland Container Depots (ICDs) and CFSs at Dighi, Chinchwad, Pimpri as well as Ratnagiri Port have been Rs 251 crore — a jump of 65 per cent since last year. “The rise in collections has been despite the fact that the peak custom duty rate has been brought down to 10 per cent from 12.5 per cent last year. This is due to the fact that large value and volumes of goods are being imported and also due to the government policy of promoting hinterland ICDs,” said Sawhney.
The major items of import that have contributed to customs revenue collection include chemicals, plastics, iron and steel, electrical machinery and automobile components. Interestingly, chemicals have been the biggest contributors, with duties of Rs 145 crore levied against their import into the city. Recovery of tax arrears has added Rs 69 lakh to the customs kitty this year, whereas commercial frauds relating to undervaluation and misuse of export schemes have contributed Rs 1.5 croreas well.
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March 31, 2007 at 7:58 am
· City
indianexpress: AFTER wrongly collecting property tax from hundreds of citizens for over a decade, the Pune Municipal Corporation will now refund the amount. Citizens can recover their money paid in excess of the property tax — wrongly charged to the tune of Rs 3.59 crore — from the main headquarters at Shivajinagar, ward offices and contact offices between 10 am and 4 pm from Saturday.
The PMC’s blunder was brought to light by activist Vihar Durve when he sought details under Right To Information to know the year-wise cases filed by people in courts contesting their tax assessments.
It was revealed that for over a decade, the PMC has been collecting excess property tax without making a correct assessment of the properties. So much so, that the Small Causes Court directed the PMC to refund over Rs 1.83 crore including interest to the tune of Rs 4.3 lakh.
It was also found that the bureaucratic delays in refunding the excess bills had caused the civic exchequer an additional burden of Rs 4.3 lakh. Durve has sought to know who is responsible for the misuse of public funds and whether the amount will be recovered from them.
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March 31, 2007 at 7:57 am
· City · Environment
indianexpress: A DAY after the temperature in Pune reached its maximum of 39.6 degree Celsius in March on Thursday, Friday saw the maximum temperature drop to 39.2 degree Celsius.
According to deputy director general, weather forecasting, city-based India Meteorological Department (IMD), A B Mazumder, “Though there might be a slight variation, the temperature will hover around 38-39 degree Celsius, three-four degrees above the normal. The cloudiness we see is only in the afternoon after the earth has been sufficiently heated.” Mazumder did not rule out the temperature climbing to 40 degree Celsius in the next 48 hours.
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March 31, 2007 at 7:54 am
· Technology
znet: Opera Software today announced the growing momentum for its Opera Mobile Web browser on devices running the Windows Mobile operating system. Major manufacturers, such as HTC and Toshiba, are including Opera on their handsets to provide their customers with a superior mobile Internet experience. Meanwhile, end-users are eager for better browsing on their mobile phones, resulting in a download increase of more than 50 percent on Opera’s website from February 2006 to February 2007.
Over the last few months the Opera browser has been selected for the following handsets running Windows Mobile:
- Motorola MOTO Q q9
- ASUS V1210 for Vodafone International and the VDA IV for Vodafone Germany
- T-Mobile Ameo
- Dopod U1000 (Asia)
- Toshiba G500 and G900
During the month of February 2007, there were 216,283 downloads of Opera’s browser for Windows Mobile Smartphone and PocketPC editions, up from 142,502 in February 2006. The Opera browser for PocketPC on Windows Mobile 5.0 is the most popular download among Opera’s Windows Mobile browser offerings.
In addition, Opera Software is releasing a preview of the latest public version of the Opera browser for Windows Mobile. With Opera Mobile 8.65 (beta), users across all the PocketPC and Smartphone versions of Windows Mobile get a faster and more user-friendly Web experience. Users can enjoy new features such as searching directly in the address bar, grab and scroll (PocketPC only), copy text, save function for images and the ability to import IE bookmarks
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March 31, 2007 at 7:50 am
· Technology
bbc: Technology giant, IBM, is soon to launch a multimedia browser to make audio and video content accessible to people with vision impairments.
Codenamed the Accessibility Browser - or A-Browser - the software was created by a blind employee in Japan.
The A-Browser will give blind and partially-sighted people the same control over multimedia content that sighted people have using a mouse.
IBM says it will be available later this year and hopes it will be free.
The A-Browser is the creation of Dr Chieko Asakawa, a blind employee at IBM’s research laboratory in Tokyo.
For the time being, she and her team are concentrating on content that is compatible with Real Player and Windows Media Player.
Screen readers and self-talking browsers are not able to deal with video and animation, some of which starts playing as soon as a page is loaded.
The player can be controlled entirely from the keyboard
This often interferes with the synthesised speech output from the screen-reader software.
Using the A-Browser, a vision-impaired person can control media content by using predefined shortcut keys, rather than having to look for the control buttons using a mouse.
The browser also allows video to be slowed down, speeded up and can accommodate an additional audio description or narration track that is often included to make films and television programmes more comprehensible to blind people.
The volume controls also allow the user to adjust the sound of various sources independently - for example the main audio track, an audio description track and output from a screen reader.
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March 31, 2007 at 7:49 am
· Technology
techtree: According to reports, Dell has finally agreed on selling select PCs and laptops with pre-installed open source Linux OS.
In a statement released on the company’s website, Dell said that it has heard its consumers and the first step in this effort is offering Linux preinstalled on select desktop and notebook systems. Further, they plan to expand the Linux support beyond the existing servers and Precision workstation line.
This move, reportedly, is a result of customer feedback and demand. Earlier this year, the company had conducted a survey wherein 1,00,000 people took part and more than 70 percent of survey respondents said they would prefer using a Dell system with a Linux OS for both home and office use.
Moreover, a majority of survey respondents said that existing community-based support forums would meet their technical support needs for a tested and validated Linux OS on a Dell PC and indicated that improved hardware support for Linux machines is as important as the distribution offered.
Dell said that customers are more concerned about driver compatibility and Linux kernel support than they are about which distribution Dell would choose for its PCs and notebooks.
As of now, the company has not released the details as to which PCs and laptops will come with pre-installed Linux and also which version of Linux will be used. Further details including testing and certification efforts and the Linux distribution or distributions, are expected to be available in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, this move by Linux is welcomed by members of the Linux community. Nick Veitch, senior editor of Linux Format magazine, describes this as a significant move.
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March 31, 2007 at 7:47 am
· Technology
techtree: AMD has announced the availability of its M690 chipset along with Turion 64 X2 dual-core mobile technology.
The M690 chipset, a new mobile platform, incorporates innovative memory technology known as Display Cache, which is designed to allow the CPU to operate in low-power mode without accessing system memory.
This new platform is coupled with the energy efficient processor design of Turion 64 X2 dual-core mobile technologies, thus extending battery life by up to 30 minutes over previous mobile technologies from AMD.
In addition, the M690 is powered by the ATI Radeon X120S0 series graphics processor, delivering seamless access to any of the visually rich features found in Windows Vista and strong gaming performance.
As the first mobile AMD chipset to support ATI Avivo technology and integrated HDMI and DVI connectivity options, the M690 series provides smooth video playback and vivid images for all multimedia applications, including HD content.
Combined with Turion 64 X2 dual-core mobile technology and a superior wireless connectivity solution, AMD promises to deliver the ultimate mobile computing experience, optimized for the new demands of Vista.
According to AMD, each component of the new mobile platform is designed from the ground up to deliver a superior computing experience, resulting in increased application stability, higher performance, improved visual experience, longer battery life and greater system value than AMD has ever offered before.
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