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Archive for April 5, 2007
April 5, 2007 at 7:56 am
· City
indianexpress: THE Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Transport merger that has been approved by Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has encountered a new roadblock.
The State government has failed to waive off the passenger tax dues of the two transport bodies.
As such, road permits for the buses of the new transport body are unlikely to be issued unless the dues are settled as the Regional Transport Authority had passed a resolution to this effect in May last year.
Road permits are necessary for the buses to ply in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad.
In May 2006, the RTA’s resolution asked both the bodies to clear their passenger tax dues. “The new transport body formed after the amalgamation of PMT and PCMT should have its dues clear, failing which their buses will not be granted permits,” the resolution said.
The PMT has to pay Rs 48.48 crore to the State government while PCMT has dues amounting to Rs 3.68 crore as passenger tax over the last four years. Till February 2007, the PMT’s dues had risen to Rs 55 crore. It is a blow for both transport bodies that were hoping that the State government would waive their dues.
Urban Development Department’s principal secretary J M Phatak confirmed that the State government has not waived the pending dues. “The parent bodies will have to bear the burden. The transport department has also confirmed that there is no waiver of the passenger tax dues,” he further added.
The officials on the RTA panel said the State government knew about the pending dues.
As of now, the officials said they were awaiting the State government’s decision while the nitty-gritties of the merger is being worked out.
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April 5, 2007 at 7:55 am
· City
indianexpress: THE dipping child sex ratio in the country — it is 927 girls per 1,000 boys according to the 2001 census — despite planned advocacy efforts and the amended Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC-PNDT) Act, is a cause for concern.
At a discussion in the city on Wednesday on the missing girls, lead consultant and executive member of the National Centre for Advocacy Studies Jose Antony Joseph faulted the appropriate authorities appointed to implement the PC-PNDT Act and said efforts must be stepped up to save the girl child.
“Medical records of the patient who is undergoing sonography must be maintained. Doctors who have been appointed as appropriate authorities do not check this irregularity,”Joseph said.
“A study has revealed that 3.5 million girls aged zero to six years have gone missing in ten years. It is high time the campaign against sex determination is taken to a logical conclusion,” he said. The study, though not a formal research, was conducted across nine states in the country.
The United Nations Population Fund has studied the reasons behind the declining child sex ratio and explore strategies for the campaign to save the girl child, Joseph added at the meet organised by Centre for Youth Development and Activities at the Patrakar Bhavan on Wednesday.
“We found there is lack of knowledge among the medical community and people about the PC-PNDT Act and even among the legal community,” he said. While abortion is disapproved, the son preference and patriarchal mindsets are so powerful that people do not mind going in for sex selective elimination of the girl child in the womb.
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April 5, 2007 at 7:54 am
· City · Special Mention
indianexpress: SAMPLE this. Upto $40 billion is spent on herbal medicines in the United States of America every year. In India though, the figures stand at $1 billion annually. “Ironically, India is known for its ayurvedic medicines. But it is countries like China, South Korea and Mexico that have captured the alternative medicine market in the USA,” says Dr Navin Shah, founder and past president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin in the US. It was this that prompted him to set off an Ayurvedic programme in which ayurveda experts from Mumbai and Pune will conduct a six-week course in traditional Indian medicine across nine medical schools in the US. These schools include prestigious names like the Harvard and Rutgers University.
The pilot project that spans six weeks will begin from the last week of April. The Ministry of Health will send two ayurveda professors — Tanuja Nesari from Pune and HS Palep from Mumbai. Nesari, who is a professor at the city-based Tilak Ayurved College, says, “This pilot project is being conducted by the Ministry of Health, department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH).”
But as Shah says, “There are thousands of ayurvedic practitioners in India who claim a lot of things. But for this particular programme, we wanted evidence-based studies. That was the first condition we laid. Secondly, we wanted the course to be free of cost to encourage doctors and students to attend.”
When in the US, Nesari and Palep will be talking about diseases like diabetes, arthritis, heart diseases and hypertension and the ayurvedic remedies for the same. “We want to introduce the system of detoxification procedures like the panchakarma and massages along with yoga. Rasayanas are also an aspect that we will be talking about,” says Naseri.
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April 5, 2007 at 7:53 am
· City
indianexpress: THE Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) officials faced stiff opposition from members of the Nagori Muslim Misagar Jamat Trust and other members of the Muslim population in the city on Wednesday when they reached the spot that houses the Adam Baug Masjid to remove the board that the trust had put up claiming that the land was private property.
The land near Sarasbaug that is the bone of contention between the PMC and the trust was reserved for a hanging garden as per the Development Plan, 1987. Although the civic administration acquired the land under the Town Planning Scheme, the trust refused to vacate the place claiming it to be private property.
City engineer Prashant Waghmare said although civic officials had gone to the site to take action, they could not do so owing to pressure from the large crowd. “We will take help from the police department in this matter. Municipal Commissioner Nitin Kareer will personally talk to the DCP in this regard and seek protection,” he said.
Meanwhile, various delegations of the muslim community met Mayor Rajlaxmi Bhosale on Wednesday claiming that the said land belonged to the trust and not the PMC. The trust members also claimed that all the property of the Muslim community in the city belongs to the Waqf board, so the PMC could not force relocation of the masjid.
The mayor on her part appealed to the delegations saying that the city’s peace was of importance and that it should not be disturbed. “If need be, we will take legal opinion in the matter. Also in a few days time, there will be a meeting of trust members and civic officials,” she said.
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April 5, 2007 at 7:52 am
· City
indianexpress: THE hot weather conditions in the city which began around late March continued to prevail in April with the mercury touching 40. 4 degrees Celsius on Wednesday. The city recorded 39.7 degrees Celsius on Tuesday.
According to India Meteorological Department director (weather forecasting) Rohini Lele, the rise in temperature was because of the dry winds blowing from North and North Westerly directions besides the prevalence of an anti cyclonic condition over central Maharashtra.
Heat conditions in the city will remain constant for another day, said Lele.
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April 5, 2007 at 7:51 am
· City
indianexpress: FOR the past four weeks, 61 students of geoinformatics at the University of Pune have been learning about technologies like Remote Sensing (RS), Geographical Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) from over 15 scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) along with their peers from 12 other universities across the country — all this without moving out of their university premises.
The six-week ISRO-sponsored course on ‘Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System and Global Positioning System’, which will conclude on April 19, is based on the virtual classroom concept with lectures and practical demonstrations telecast over the EDUSAT satellite network.
It was conducted by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun, and Pune University was selected as one of the centres for conducting the virtual classrooms. Among the other 12 centres are universities like the Madurai Kamaraj University and Rajiv Gandhi University.
“The objective of the course was to bring thematic experts from the user community, including academic institutions, to train students in the technology and its applications with the overall goal of technology transfer and user awareness,” said course coordinator Vrishali Deosthali.
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April 5, 2007 at 7:46 am
· Technology
techtree: Western Digital (WD) has introduced its My Book World Edition family of shared storage appliances in the country.
The new products, including My Book World Edition and My Book World Edition II, allow consumers and home office workers to securely access their digital content, such as photos, home videos, and documents.
The My Book World Edition has a capacity of 500 GB, while the My Book World Edition II includes all of the features of My Book World Edition in a dual-drive configuration for 1 TB of capacity and RAID capability.
The products incorporate new software called ‘WD Anywhere Access,’ which simplifies access to digital content, breaking the barriers to physical proximity to that content.
Anywhere Access comes with a unique feature called Data OnHand, which makes My Book World Edition active in Windows Explorer and Windows ‘Save As’ and ‘Open’ options when connected to the Internet. This simplifies access to content, even if the user is thousands of miles away from his/her My Book World Edition appliance.
Commenting on the launch, Sharad Srivastava, Sales Director for South Asia and India, WD, said, “The My Book World Edition shared storage appliances eliminate the limits of traditional external hard drives. With these appliances, a user can carry one terabyte of data wherever he/she goes, and also have his/her personal content safe at home. This new concept in storage enables virtually limitless accessibility to family, friends, and associates for sharing and backup.”
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April 5, 2007 at 7:45 am
· Technology
techtree: According to an IANS report, Chennai-based California Software Company (Calsoft) has tied-up with a Chinese company, U-Eyes Media Technology (Shenzhen), to develop a car window visor or sun shield that doubles as a small television screen.
The device incorporates a flash player, and the company claims the content can be changed in real time using the Internet supported by a data center.
Calsoft says this utility will enable people watch films or music videos or advertisements from within their cars or cabs.
Calsoft Managing Director and CEO, S Sam Santosh, said the new software will firmly place Calsoft on the software innovation map.
Meanwhile, CEO of Calsoft’s partner, U-Eyes Media Technology (Shenzhen), Edmund Wu, said Calsoft was the obvious choice for their company’s Smart Mobile TV.
For starters, cabs plying in China will be getting ‘Smart Mobile TV’ visors.
Calsoft, founded in 1992, has development centres at Chennai and Bangalore in India; Pleasanton in California; and Boston and Omaha in the US.
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April 5, 2007 at 7:44 am
· Technology
itnews: The processor for laptops and handheld devices will have increased IT management and security features as well as an 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter.
Intel said it would launch this quarter a Centrino Pro mobile processor that includes the company’s vPro technology, which increases previous security levels and gives an IT staff the ability to manage a notebook over a wireless network.
Code-named Santa Rosa, the new package includes a Core 2 Duo processor, an improved graphics chipset code-named Crestline, and an 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter.
The vPro technology includes Intel’s Active Management Technology, which in conjunction with third-party applications provides for controlling PCs from a central location to fix problems. Also built into the platform is technology for discovering a PC even when it is powered off. advertisement
The Active Management Technology also includes security features such as the ability to block incoming buffer overflow threats, and to contain infected clients before they cause damage to a network.
The platform also makes it possible to set up alerts when critical software agents are removed. In addition, security vendors can make use of the firmware’s nonvolatile memory to store information for automatic off-hours virus protection or other software updates.
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April 5, 2007 at 7:43 am
· Technology
computerworld: Addonics Technologies Inc. today introduced a new family of CF Hard Drive Adapters, priced from $24.99 to $35.99. The devices enable you to replace notebook hard disk drives with compact flash (CF) cards instead. The adapter is compatible with Macintoshes or PCs.
The adapter has the same 2.5-in. drive pin connector as a typical laptop has, and it can simply be inserted into the existing hard drive slot, allowing for up to two flash drives to be connected at once. “There’s no software needed. Once you attach it to the system, it will detect it, and it will appear as an ordinary hard drive to the system,” an Addonics spokesman said.
The spokesman said the advantage of replacing a hard disk drive with a flash drive is not so much in faster read/write speeds, but the ruggedness of the drive, which has no moving parts, lower power consumption and the lighter weight of the flash drive.
“You could reduce battery consumption by 30% to 40% on a laptop, and obviously the CF is lighter than the 2.5 inch hard drive,” he said.
The new adapters replace 2.5-in. integrated development environment (IDE) or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard disk drives normally used in notebook computers, and they’re compatible with Mac, Windows, Linux and Solaris operating systems, without requiring any special device drivers.
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