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Archive for April 27, 2007
April 27, 2007 at 8:30 am
· City · Special Mention
indianexpress: The Yerawada Central Prison, among the biggest jails in the country with over 3,000 prisoners, boasts of an industry which has 12 units where prisoners work.
The industry, which includes handloom and powerloom, dyeing, tailoring, carpentry, smithy, paper manufacturing, vehicle repair workshop, laundry, bakery, leather items and even a car washing centre and earnings from the open jail, has posted an impressive revenue growth by raking in Rs 5.45 crore in 2006-07 as against Rs 5 crore in the previous year.
The in-house prison industry, which supports the jail, is called Udyog Karagruha. More than 70 products are churned out by 400 chosen prisoners —terracotta, cloth, sarees, bedsheets, hospital-related cloth products, painted bedsheets, stitching school, police and home guard uniforms, wooden furniture, notebooks, files, metal racks and furniture, baking bread, biscuits and other bakery products .
Superintendent of Yerawada Prison Rajendra Dhamane attributed the jump in revenue to utilisation of the prisoners’ skills. “We want the abundant time the prisoners have to be used in gainful employment. Their skills are honed and their potential is used to the fullest extent. Work reduces their boredom and rejuvenates them to increase their performance everyday. It also leads to reformation,” Dhamane said.
Senior jailor Dilip Wasnik, who is in-charge of the factory department that oversees the prison industry said, “All government departments including schools and Pune Municipal Transport are our clients. They submit their requirement and we supply the goods. Visitors and the general public too buy goods though on a small scale.”
The prisoners are divided into skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers and get a daily allowance of Rs 25.50, Rs 17 and Rs 12.75 based on their categories. They are encouraged to give their best. In return, they are given benefits like parole for seven days, promotion as night watchmen and convict overseers. “Our endeavour is to encourage and motivate the prisoners, a small step towards changing their lives,” Wasnik said.
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April 27, 2007 at 8:29 am
· City
indianexpress: Failure on the part of the Pune Municipal Corporation to build a road divider on Sanjay Gandhi Road has led to the traffic police shelving a plan to decongest the Pune Railway Station area.
The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) had sought introduction of two-way traffic on Sanjay Gandhi Road from Pune Railway Station to Maldhakka.
Traffic snarls are common in the vicinity of the railway station. To decongest the area, the city traffic branch and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had agreed to the plan for two-way traffic movement. The PMC was asked to construct a road divider and remove the traffic island opposite the railway station.
“We had communicated our suggestion to the PMC during the meeting of traffic mobility committee last year. It was decided that a road divider will be constructed and the traffic island will be removed,” said police inspector Milind Patil, in-charge of Cantonment division of traffic branch.
The traffic plan, designed by College of Engineering, Pune is yet to see the light of the day. “The Kasba Peth ward office, which was to undertake the job, was closed down and the work got stalled,” said a PMC official.
The Sanjay Gandhi Road has been operating as a one-way since 2005. According to the MSRTC, the road had been reduced to a hub of private transport operators with their buses and taxis occupying a major portion of the carriageway.
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April 27, 2007 at 8:28 am
· City
indianexpress: The Bombay High Court has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to wrap up the enquiry against city-based adoption agency Preet Mandir in three months’ time and submit an over all report.
A decision given by a division bench comprising of Justice Ranjana Desai and DB Bhosale on Thursday issued orders to stop both intra-country and inter-country adoptions for the agency. The court however directed that the 30 adoption applications pending before the Pune district court, processed by Preet Mandir will be expeditiously disposed off by the family courts.
NGO Adwait Foundation had filed a petition in the High Court last year following a sting operation by a news channel that showed alleged malpractices by the adoption agency.
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April 27, 2007 at 8:27 am
· City
indianexpress: An irate mob set a private bus on fire at Wakad after the driver hit a cyclist on Thursday morning.The driver was overtaking a PMT bus ahead of Rakshak Society, when he lost control. The injured cyclist, Balu Vaman Thorat ( 36), a watchman with a transport company and resident of Pimpale Nilakh, was rushed to Sassoon Hospital but proclaimed dead on arrival.
A mob of over 40 people gathered at the spot, stoned the bus and set it afire. Investigation officer PSI Ramdas K Bhonde of Chatuhshrungi police station said, “We are looking for four unidentified persons who arrived on the scene, threatened the bus driver, beat him and escaped. They set the bus on fire with help of others who had gathered.The bus was on its way to pick up Infosys employees from Parihar Chowk when the accident occurred.”
Bus driver Kailash Shivnarayan Kuswaha (36) of Alandi has been arrested.
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April 27, 2007 at 8:26 am
· City · Crime
indianexpress: Four youngsters have been sentenced to life imprisonment by Fast Track court Judge L A Borde for their involvement in the murder of the alleged ringleader of a Hadapsar-based drug cartel, Mohiuddin Sayyed.
Incidentally, the room in the Ramoshi Vasti area of Hadapsar from where the Anti Narcotics Cell of Pune police recovered one tonne Ganja in March during the crackdown following the Donje party bust, was owned by Sayyed.
The convicted youth include Satish Dnyaneshwar Jagtap (27), Umesh Shivaji Pawar (25), Ajay Uttam Kamthe (21) and Anant Pandurang Yeole (32). Except for Yeole, who is a resident of Wadaki on Pune-Saswad road, all others are residents of Bhekarainagar near Phursungi. According to the prosecution’s case, the four had hacked Mohiuddin to death in full public view at a bus stop at Bhekarainagar on November 8, 2004.
The four were arrested after Mohiuddin’s friend Rakesh Chandrakant Sanas lodged a First Information Report (FIR). According to the FIR, the four were angry because Mohiuddin had helped one Laxmi Dhavare lodge an FIR of a rape case against them.
Additional Public Prosecutor Ujjwala Pawar examined 16 prosecution witnesses of which 12 turned hostile. Pawar had then argued that the testimonies of the four prosecution witnesses which narrated elaborate details as to how Mohiuddin was ruthlessly murdered, cannot be ruled out.
Mohiuddin, who was a history-sheeter himself, allegedly led a drug cartel having its base in Ramoshi Vasti.
Later, investigations by the ANC revealed that the drug cartel which used the house as a storage space-cum-packaging centre, had supplied narcotics to the rave party revellers. Moreover, the investigations also revealed that Mohiuddin had set up the drug storage centre-cum-packaging unit with the help of a local resident Maruti Jagtap (62).
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April 27, 2007 at 8:25 am
· City · Education
indianexpress: After at least 100 students from Pune were allocated examination centres in far-flung areas like Lakshadweep, Puducherry, Surat and Vadodara, yet another glitch in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) has Hadapsar student Kavita Kodre and her father Trimbak running from pillar to post, as her admit card came with a wrong photograph.
The AIEEE is an entrance examination for engineering colleges nationwide, and is administered centrally by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in Delhi. When Kodre, a student of the RR Shinde College in Hadapsar, failed to receive her admit card by post like her classmates, she downloaded the same from the AIEEE website. “Since the internet version had no photograph, I stuck one on, and got it attested by the college principal,” said Trimbak.
However when they went to the allocated examination centre to verify the admit card, it was found that the admit card available at the centre had a wrong photograph printed on it. “Although the other particulars like name and application number matched, the superintendent said that he could not do anything, and that we would have to take our complaint to the office in Delhi,” said a concerned Trimbak.
Speaking to Pune Newsline, CBSE’s Special Examination Department Head Pitam Singh said, “It is possible that there is a mistake on the CBSE’s part, but I have issued instructions to the Board representatives in each State to allow students in such cases to sit for the examination. It is assured that the child will not be prevented from giving the examination,” Singh, however, added that the student would need to present some photo identification for verification.
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April 27, 2007 at 8:22 am
· Technology
techtree: Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced the launch of the new Compaq Presario SR5000 series PCs in India.
The company said the Compaq Presario SR5000 series PCs have an enhanced new look, and are the perfect PCs that exude style and substance.
The latest series is defined by sleek, clean lines, and a cool modern Silver finish, and comprises new 17-inch Compaq-branded monitors with integrated speakers.
On this occasion, P Krishnakumar, Country Category Manager of Consumer Desktops, Personal Systems Group, HP India, said that the new range launched is after extensive consumer research to offer the best computing experience to users. The HP design team has combined design philosophy with fashion elements and consumer electronics trends to offer the ideal PCs for the modern home. The new range is set to redefine home computing.
The SR5000 PCs come with a 2.5-inch HP Pocket Media Drive Bay, which does not require additional power supply, and is supported by its 2-feed-USB 2.0 power and data sharing cable.
According to HP, SR5000 PCs’ intuitive easy access design makes computing simpler and natural, with several user-friendly innovations. The new range breaks away from the traditional ‘box’ PC, and offers great features at an affordable price.
Meanwhile, the new range of SR5000 PCs that are available in 80GB and 120GB, for additional storage capacity, are priced between Rs 30,990 and Rs 37,490.
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April 27, 2007 at 8:21 am
· Technology
techtree: Home movie making just got easier, with the launch of Studio Plus Events Pro Deluxe from Pinnacle.
Pinnacle Studio Plus Events Pro Deluxe is an advanced, powerful home video editing solution launched exclusively for the Indian market. It is aimed at advanced video enthusiasts, who require additional power, control, and quality to create professional looking results.
The new software enables users make stunning movies on their PCs, with effects and transitions in minutes, through a simple three-step process of capture, edit, and share, the company said.
According to Ashish Bakshi, Country Manager for Pinnacle India, “With Studio Plus Events Pro Deluxe, we have taken a quantum leap forward by providing consumers a wider range of formats such as HDV, and a robust new set of features including Pan and Zoom.”
Using this software, users can: capture photos, videos, and audio from a wide array of consumer electronic devices, both analogue and digital; edit and convert them into blockbuster home movies on PC using innovative effects; and then preserve and share the movies by transferring them on DVD on the Web, and beyond.
The software can also be used to animate digital photos with close-ups and pans in any direction to create captivating video sequences.
Pinnacle Studio Plus also includes hundreds of standard and bonus extraordinary keyframeable and format independent real-time effects and transitions powered by both legendary and professional Pinnacle Liquid Effects Engine. With added keyframing, users can actually control the characteristics and parameters of an effect on a frame-by-frame basis.
Pinnacle Studio Plus Events Pro Deluxe Internal is priced at Rs 17,900, and External at Rs 19,900.
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April 27, 2007 at 8:19 am
· Technology
bbc: Attempts to understand diseases such as Alzheimers have got a boost from Sony’s PlayStation 3 console.
More than 250,000 PS3 owners have enrolled their console in the Folding@Home project which uses it to study the shapes proteins assume.
So many have signed up that the project has carried out a year’s worth of research in a month.
Proteins that do not fold correctly have been implicated in diseases such as Alzheimers and BSE.
The Folding@Home (F@H) project uses idle machines, be they PCs or game consoles, to simulate how proteins, the building blocks of life, assume the forms that play key roles in living tissue.
A better understanding of these folded forms could help tackle disease or help manipulate or mimic these vital structures.
The project, like many others, tries to solve hugely complicated problems by splitting them up into thousands of much smaller tasks.
By harnessing thousands of idle machines to do hundreds of thousands of these smaller tasks it becomes possible to do analysis that would take years to complete on a single supercomputer.
“Thanks to PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate,” said Vijay Pande, Associate Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and leader of the Folding@Home project.
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April 27, 2007 at 8:18 am
· Technology
cnet: Adobe Systems plans to open-source Flex, its development framework for building Flash and Apollo-based applications.
The company on Wednesday is expected to announce the move, which will start when it releases a beta of the next version of Flex, code-named Moxie, in June.
By the time Adobe releases the final version of Moxie, which will be called Flex 3, near the end of the year, it expects to have a fully functioning open-source project, company executives said Tuesday. Adobe intends to use the Mozilla Public License.
The company said it will open-source the Flex software development kit, which includes a compiler and libraries designed to speed up development. It plans to continue to sell Flex Builder, an Eclipse-based development tool, and Flex Data Services, server software for accessing corporate databases.
Flex is one of a growing number of alternatives for building so-called rich Internet applications, which sport an interactive front-end interface. Using the development framework, programmers create an application that can run within Adobe’s Flash Player or Apollo, its “player” for desktop applications.
The company chose to create an open-source project for the Flex software to garner good ideas and contributions from developers outside Adobe, said Jeff Whatcott, vice president for product marketing at Adobe’s enterprise and developer business unit.
The move is also meant to appeal to open-source developers who shun closed-source and proprietary products. Adobe already offers the Flex software development kit for free and provides the source code.
“For some people, (open source) is a philosophical requirement, a sign of integrity and trust in a vendor,” Whatcott said. “This will close that gap and address any lingering doubts they have about our openness and commitment to community.”
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