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Archive for April 19, 2007
April 19, 2007 at 7:33 am
· City
indianexpress: COMMUTERS continued to have a bad time at Parihar, Bremen, Range Hills and University chowks— the connecting corridors between Pashan, Aundh and Baner — on Wednesday, the second day after traffic diversions were introduced on Tuesday to ensure speedy work on the University flyovers.
The only saving grace was smooth flow of vehicles on Ganeskhind Road from the University which the traffic police, with support from Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation’s (MSRDC) 25 traffic wardens, ensured.
The opening of private roads belonging to NCL Colony and Sindh Housing Society brought some more relief.
Police inspector Prabhakar Dhamale said, “The NCL Colony gate has been opened for traffic from Baner to Pashan and vice-versa. Similarly, Sindh Housing Society in Aundh too opened its gates from the Bremen chowk side to allow traffic to pass in both directions from Pashan and Baner. However, the Armament Colony gate connecting it to YASHADA on Baner Road was closed. Officials said they would require permission from their headquarters in New Delhi.”
“The Baner-ITI Road is undergoing repairs. Work on installing the stormwater drains is a hindrance and ITI Road’s resurfacing is shoddy,”said a traffic official.
The situation will ease only after June 15. Speaking to Pune Newsline, MSRDC’s superintending engineer Manoj Khairkar said, “We expect to finish by June 15,” he said.
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April 19, 2007 at 7:32 am
· City
indianexpress: PUNE straddles two worlds — it’s wadas, temples, forts and other heritage structures come from the old world, while the malls, population composition and growing stature in the IT industry present its changing face.
With rapid urbanisation in the Peth areas, many of the city’s heritage buildings are in danger of getting lost and forgotten, since there is no action plan drawn up to conserve them.
Firstly, the official heritage list has been stuck in bureaucratic hurdles for the past 16 years. It is now pending approval with the State government. Meanwhile, plans to preserve the existing heritage structures are gathering dust.
The heritage committee set up in 1995 had drawn up a list of heritage structures dividing them into grade I, II and III according to the significance or importance. A total of 174 structures, temples, buildings and precincts were identified. This included Shaniwarwada, Vishrambaugwada, Nanawada, Parvati temple, Kasba Ganpati, Nagar Vachan Mandir, SP College, Fergusson College, Kumbharwada, Shimpi Ali and Tambat Ali.
The State government officials, in 2003 verified the list after physical inspection and submitted it for the final approval. It’s been four years and the PMC is still waiting for the nod. PMC heritage cell chief Shyam Dhavale said the list is in the final stages of approval. “We are yet to receive it and are told by the state officials that it is in the final stages of approval,” he said.
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April 19, 2007 at 7:31 am
· City
indianexpress: THE PUNE Cantonment Board (PCB) drive against hawkers — especially handcart owners and squatters — is bearing results, going by the quantity of goods confiscated.
The week-old eviction drive saw the PCB storeroom at Babajan Chowk overflowing with seized goods estimated at over Rs 2 lakh. The drive was launched following strict orders issued by PCB president Brigadier RJ Sharma.
The seizure includes 29 paan kiosks, 40 handcarts, two refrigerators, seven neon sign boards, three trolleys, five ice-cream vans and three electricity generators.
PCB Revenue Superintendent VS Satpute said: “It has been observed time and again that the hawkers return despite paying a heavy fine. So this time we have not released a single item.”
The PCB crackdown squad comprises one staffer each from health, revenue and tax departments along with a mukadam and 20 members of the Nuisance Prevention Squad (NPS). The board is considering a major move against illegal vendors around Shivaji Market.
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April 19, 2007 at 7:30 am
· City
indianexpress: ALTHOUGH the district administration has launched a campaign to make Pune district tanker-free, the water woes of rural Pune are slated to come up for discussion at the General Body (GB) meeting of the Zilla Parishad (ZP) to be held in a fortnight.
Opposition parties have demanded that a special GB meeting of the Pune ZP be summoned to discuss water woes of rural Pune. Twenty-two of the 75 ZP members on Wednesday submitted a letter containing the demand to ZP president Vaishali Abane. As per the rules, the president has to call a special GB meeting within 45 days from the date of receiving a requisition signed by more than a third of the total number of members. The letter has been signed by members of the Congress, Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party.
As of now, only one tanker is being deployed for water supply to a few villages in Junnar taluka. Demands for deployment of tankers made by a few villages and hamlets in Purandhar and Khed talukas are pending.
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April 19, 2007 at 7:28 am
· City · Education
indianexpress: For state board students of classes six, 10 and 12 it’s turning out to be a double whammy. First the change in their syllabus and now the unavailability of certain key textbooks.
And while the new academic session will be begin from June 2007, most schools are yet to receive Geography, Sanskrit and Hindi Composite textbooks for class 10 and the new books in all languages for class 12. Class six is the worst hit as not a single textbook is with students or schools.
Teachers and parents are naturally worried. And all agree that since the board had decided to change the syllabus in 2006 all books should have been ready by now.
As for the State Board of Education, which is responsible for ensuring that the textbooks are made available to students and teachers in time, it doesn’t have much to say. “I agree all the books are not out in the market as yet. But the matter is on top priority and efforts are on to bring out these books on time,” said board chairman Vijay S Sardesai.
It’s already late. For, most schools start vacation batches in April for classes 10 and 12 immediately after the class 9 and class 11 annual exams in order to finish a major part of the syllabus by the end of first term. “We start right away so that students get a lot of time for revision,” said Sucheta Bhawalkar, principal, V N Sule Guruji English Medium School.
Some of the major changes in the syllabus for classes 10 and 12 include introduction of “environment education” as a 100-mark subject which has increased the grand total from 600 to 700. Also, students will have to complete a compulsory project work on any one topic from any one subject. The project will be of two-year durations for classes 9,10 and classes 11,12 and will be a graded subject.
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April 19, 2007 at 7:27 am
· City · Crime
indianexpress: WHAT does a jewellery shop employee do when three men arrive in a white Sumo with a flashing beacon and stop the State Transport bus he is travelling in at night, pull him out and decamp with gold jewellery worth Rs. 7.52 lakh.
The man rushed to the nearest police station and filed a complaint recalling the beacon and the words ‘POLICE’ clearly inscribed on the front and rear of the vehicle leading to arrest of three policemen within ten hours of the crime.
The culprits —Vijay Devdan Kale, 33, a police naik with group II of State Reserve Police Force (SRPF), Navnath Prabhakar Pingale, 28, a police constable with the dog squad at city police commissionerate, and Pratap Hanumant Gaikwad, 29, a driver with motor transport section of the city police — were arrested by the Pune rural police and charged with committing robbery and booked under sections 395 ( punishment for dacoity ) and 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement ) of the Indian Penal Code.
Kale and Gaikwad are both on deputation to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and so was the vehicle (MH 12 AH 7257) used by them in the crime.
The victim, Yuvaraj Singh Balraj Singh Bayas (65), who worked for a jeweller in Solapur, recalled his nightmare as his home-bound bus was chased by the Sumo till the Manjari toll naka on Pune-Solapur Road.
Two plainclothesmen — Kale and Pingale — entered the bus and pulled him down. They questioned him about the jewellery in his possession, asking him to produce the receipts. Then they beat him up for stealing the gold and forcibly took it away.
Bayas was left stranded at a secluded spot off the highway till a motorcyclist helped him reach the nearest chowki at Hadapsar. The police there refused to register his complaint as the incident had occurred in the jurisdiction of Loni Kalbhor police station.
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April 19, 2007 at 7:25 am
· Technology
techtree: Gigabyte has announced the launch of three new graphics accelerators: GV-NX85T256H, which bundles the game, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Dark Crusade; GV-NX86S256H, which bundles the game, Supreme Commander, touted as the first real-time strategy computer game to deliver a truly strategic and tactical experience; and GV-NX86T256D, featuring a brand new thermal design, Silent-Pipe II single-slot version, and also bundling Supreme Commander.
Gigabyte Silent-Pipe II, when combined with the company’s Screen-Cooling technologies, utilizes natural convection currents created from the front of case, with system fans drawing cool air over the GPU for unequalled fanless cooling.
The GV-NX85T256H features GeForce 8500 GT with DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 support. The GV-NX86S256H features GeForce 8600 GTS with 256MB GDDR3 memory and DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 support. Whereas, the GV-NX86T256D features GeForce 8600 GT with 256MB GDDR3 memory and DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 support. All three graphics accelerators enable full support for Microsoft Windows Vista Premium.
The Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT, GeForce 8600 GTS, and GeForce 8600 GT feature a dedicated ‘on-chip’ video processor for superb picture quality and ultra smooth video playback.
The three graphics accelerators also feature Nvidia’s latest advanced technologies, including its GigaThread Technology, which, through the use of massively multi-threaded architecture, is able to create thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency for advanced, next generation Shader programs.
Additionally, the awesome threesome support Quantum Effects Technology, enabling a new level of Physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU, as well as support for Nvidia’s Lumenex engine, which introduces 16x Anti-aliasing and 128-bit floating point High-Dynamic-Range (HDR), rendering the most realistic lighting effects.
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April 19, 2007 at 7:24 am
· Technology
techtree: APC has announced introduction of their Universal Notebook Batteries, the UPB 10 and UPB 60.
Pankaj Sharma, Country Manager of APC India, said, “It is a very common problem for everyone traveling on work that the battery of their notebook runs out after a certain period of time. APC Universal Mobile Device Batteries can be used as emergency batteries, or simply as a way to get extra runtime, so you can leave your heavy charging adapters home.”
The UPB 10 includes a USB Power Adapter and a User Manual, and comes with LED Status indicators. It weighs 0.20 lbs (0.09 kg), and supports mobile phones.
“The UPB 10 is a small and handy product that supports all your mobile devices. These external battery packs supply power via a USB port to any mobile device that can be powered using a USB charging cable like mobile phones, iPods, PDAs, and more. Now you never have to be stranded without the battery power to make a call on your mobile phone or retrieve data from your PDA,” Sharma said.
The UPB60 packs key features such as LED status indicators, multiple output voltages, etc, and is compatible with most laptop computers. The product weighs less than 750 grams, and supports upto 6 hours of runtime. It recharges in less than 3 hours.
APC notebook batteries are now available for certain Acer, Apple, Compaq, Comp USA, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, HP, IBM, Sony, and Toshiba notebook models.
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April 19, 2007 at 7:23 am
· Technology
techtree: A new portal, Cafegadgets.in, is being launched today by AXAAN Systems. Cafegadgets, an online shopping portal, will offer a comprehensive range of technology and digital lifestyle products at discounted prices.
The products on offer include: CD/DVD drives, PDAs, mobile phones, storage drives, desktop PCs, digital cameras, motherboards, iPods, laptops, and CPUs, among others.
Cafegadgets will provide extensive information on an array of products, including technical specifications, related products, reviews, and user testimonials, so that buyers can compare and evaluate products, and make informed choices.
Besides, the portal’s homepage will feature best buys and new buys that can be availed at the click of the mouse.
AXAAN says the discounts on Cafegadgets have been made possible via direct business tie-ups with leading IT manufacturers, vendors, and distributors. And, the portal has to its credit, a fully evolved logistic network panning across the country.
The new portal promises free doorstep delivery of products in the shortest possible time, so that deliveries in metros would take about three days, while those in other places a maximum of seven days from payment realization.
All products sold on Cafegadgets carry original manufacturer warranties, along with the facility for servicing products from the respective manufacturer authorized center.
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April 19, 2007 at 7:22 am
· Technology
techtree: IBM and Apollo Hospitals Group have announced a joint go-to-market initiative to build a National Health Data Network called “Health Hiway” that will provide a diverse set of software applications for the healthcare segment.
Conceptualised and developed by Apollo, based on IBM’s IT infrastructure, the “Health Hiway” initiative will facilitate the roll out of hosted applications that are global best-in-class, with the objective of creating a basket of offerings that will create maximum impact on hospitals’ clinical and financial performance. IBM will offer its hardware, middleware, and services infrastructure, while Apollo Hospitals Group will offer its healthcare domain expertise.
According to sources, the wide range of applications on “Health Hiway” are of tremendous value to mid-sized hospitals, physician practices, pharmacy, and third party administrators who will benefit from the array of services with minimal investment.
Commenting on the initiative, Mohammed H Naseem, Vice President of Healthcare, IBM India, said, “Other than a few large hospitals in India that have successfully implemented IT, most seem to be grappling with too much choice and very little understanding to evaluate the options. Vendor approach also does not make things simpler, and most
implementations do not last beyond a few years. Our technology experience coupled with Apollo’s domain expertise, will enable us to serve the industry with efficient and effective solutions.”
Sources say the “Health Hiway” applications are extremely simple to deploy and use, and can be customised to facilitate learning and transformation to enable users to get the most out of various software applications.
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