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Archive for May 6, 2007
May 6, 2007 at 8:15 am
· City
indianexpress: THE Pune growth story may soon find space for people’s voice as its civic body has decided to rope in the commoner’s views while drafting the city’s long-term development plan. The public participation initiative is expected to get under way in the next fortnight.
A natural corollary to its efforts last year seeking public viewpoints to be incorporated in the annual municipal budget, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to draft the new Development Plan (DP) as per public aspirations and desires.
“The actual process of preparing new DP will start within next 15 days and for the first time PMC has decided involve common people in the planning. Steering committee will be formed with sub-committees to communicate with people and seek their suggestions for development plans in their localities,” City engineer Prashant Waghmare told Newsline.
Civic activist Vivek Velankar welcomed the idea. “It is a welcome move by the corporation. With peoples participation the planners will be acquainted with the ground reality,” he said.
However activist Sujit Patwardhan was sceptical. “I doubt whether it will be executed in earnest as the civic body will only be going through the motions,” he said adding that it was a long pending demand from the citizens.
The DP is prepared taking into account the existing land use and available vacant land, population and economic growth projections for the city. It assigns land use specifications for all the land that is available within the city and thus becomes a critical tool in managing future growth.
Thus, the DP designates land as residential, commercial, industrial, and reserved and identifies land required for public amenities (schools, hospitals, playgrounds) or public infrastructure (roads, water treatment plants, etc).
“In the earlier DP process, public opinion was sought only after draft plan prepared by experts was published. This time we expect people to come up with specific suggestions on development of their locality. For example if people from a locality feel that their area is congested they should come out with a plan of decongestion,” Waghmare said.
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May 6, 2007 at 8:14 am
· City
indianexpress: Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), considered the world’s largest telescope operating at metre wavelengths, will see its first upgradation in seven years.
Located 80 km from Pune and set up by Pune-based National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), the telescope has been functioning as an international observatory and attracted about 80 scientific projects every year. The upgradation is part of the 11th Five Year Plan.
“The radio telescope comprises 30 fully steerable dishes, each 45 metres in diametre and spread over a 25-km area,” centre director Rajaram Nityananda said. “Its job is to study the variety of astronomical objects like galaxies, pulsars and quasars, emitting radio waves over a wide range of frequencies. We are widening a range of frequencies and improving the processing of the radio signals from 30 antennas.”
Nityananda said several projects have been lined up including two ongoing ones. One includes a collaboration with Bangalore-based Raman Research Institute, that has designed a new set of radio antennas or ‘feed’ to be placed at the focus of the dishes. “These are being tested and show promise for opening up new range of frequencies,” he said.
Sweden-based Chalmers Institute of Technology is bringing a new design of the feed to GMRT, which was tested on the radio telescope for the first time.
In the area of improving the images, a joint project in software correlator has been on for the last two years with scientists from Canada and the United States of America. For the first time they are attempting to improve images from the sky, using a cluster of computers for processing the signals to get better images.
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May 6, 2007 at 8:12 am
· City · Crime
indianexpress: The crime branch of the city police on Friday arrested four persons, including a constable attached to the Jammu & Kashmir police, for possessing of heroin worth Rs 50 lakh in the international market. They were remanded on Saturday to police custody till May 16.
A crime branch team led by police inspectors Bhanu Pratap Barge and Assistant police inspector Raghunath Phuge arrested the accused near hotel Mangal Vihar on East Street Camp and seized 540 gms of heroin.
The accused, identified as constable Gurmail Singh Prem Singh Rajal Dhalya (26), from Rajouri in Jammu & Kashmir, Murali Tirupati Chintal (26), a resident of Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh currently staying at Kolhewadi on Sinhagad Road, Amrik Singh Kehar Singh (19), a resident of Udhampur in Jammu & Kashmir and Sachin Dattatreya Jogdankar (26), a resident of Pratap Nagar in Aurangabad district.
DCP (crime) Anil Kumbhare said, “We got the information that Gurmail Singh along with three of his accomplices will be coming near hotel Mangal Vihar to sell heroin and we laid a trap. We suspect some more persons to be involved in the case.”
According to police, Murali, a waiter in a city hotel and owned the car from which the heroin was seized.
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May 6, 2007 at 8:11 am
· City
indianexpress: TO prepare officials for search and rescue operations during floods, the Talegaon-based 145 Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is training officials from 18 districts of the State.
“Not only search and rescue, we also impart training on how to apply first aid as it is essential after rescuing the flood victims,” said assistant commandant of training Jai Singh. Grassroot-level officials who will have to handle rescue, search and relief operations in case of any eventuality have been selected for training. Officials from Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Satara, Kolhapur, Thane, Sangli, Nashik, Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, Solapur, Latur, Dhule, Beed, Nanded, Amravati, Akola, Pune, Raigad and Thane are eligible for the training.
As of now four such courses have been conducted with around 196 people participating. The battalion has plans to conduct another 18 such five-day training programmes that will teach at least 700 officials to gear up for the search and rescue operations. In the month of March, the unit trained some 800 volunteers from eight talukas and 400 gram panchayats of Sindhudurg district. Apart from officials, the battalion has already trained about 100 volunteers in flood water search and rescue form Kolhapur so far. About 200 more volunteers will be trained before the onset of monsoon. In the coming month, two teams of 36 persons each from district police and Home Guards will be trained in a seven-day course who in turn will train volunteers in their respective areas.
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May 6, 2007 at 8:10 am
· City
indianexpress: MINISTER for Technical and Higher Education Dilip Walse-Patil on Saturday said the role of universities was to act as a bridge between the emerging urban-rural divide and not just to conduct examinations and churn out degree certificates.
In his address to a students’ gathering at the launch of Samartha Bharat Abhiyan — a youth empowerment movement started by the University of Pune (UoP) — Walse-Patil advised youngsters to stamp out divisions in the society. He also said the University syllabus needed rewriting considering times are changing.
While praising the UoP for their adoption of a 12-point programme as a part of its Samartha Bharat Abhiyan, Walse-Patil cautioned Vice Chancellor Narendra Jadhav against overburdening students with extra work. He also urged the UoP to focus on rural development programmes aimed at empowering the youth and water conservation programmes.
Stressing on the need to create a literacy drive pertaining to saving electricity, Walse-Patil said that the State was grappling with a crunch of 70,000 MW of electricity. “There is a need to save every unit of electricity and spread awareness amongst the commoners,” he said.
Earlier, Jadhav gave a brief outline of the Samartha Bharat Abhiyan. “A 12-point programme comprising Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan or women’s empowerment, sanitation and hygiene, environmental awareness and prohibition, has been chalked out by the University that will cover 433 colleges from Ahmednagar, Nashik and Pune districts. They will adopt 500 villages where a socio-economic survey will be conducted,” he said.
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May 6, 2007 at 8:09 am
· City
indianexpress: Farmers in the region can purchase two-wheelers through loans, thanks to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Bank of India and Hero Honda Motors Ltd.
Under the bank’s Kisan Vahan Scheme, BoI and Hero Honda have extended credit support to agriculturists for purchase of two-wheelers through its branches spread across the country. BoI priority sector GM K Pothiraj and and Hero Honda zonal head west Sanjay Mittal exchanged the MoU on April 27 in the presence of BoI executive director K R Kamath and Chairman and MD M Balachandran.
The BoI has entered into an MoU with the Hero Honda company to provide credit support for acquiring two-wheelers to farmers and persons engaged in agriculture and other allied activities.
The bank has also decided to cover all eligible farmers under its Kisan Vahan Scheme throughout the country. The bank has a total of 2,681 branches of which 1,711 are in rural and semi-urban areas through which the scheme would be implemented, a press release issued by the company said.
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May 6, 2007 at 8:02 am
· Technology
techtree: Creative has reportedly introduced its newest MP3 player, the tiny, featherweight, 1GB ‘Zen Stone,’ available in 6 colors; namely, Black, White, Red, Blue, Pink, and Green.
Up to 500 songs can be dragged and dropped to the Zen Stone, and using either ‘play’ or ‘random,’ consumers can enjoy up to 10 hours of their favorite music with just a single charge of the rechargeable built-in battery, according to Creative sources.
With the Zen Stone, users can skip through tracks/albums/artists while on-the-go, or play music randomly in ’shuffle’ mode.
Besides, the Zen Stone can be personalized with things like attractive translucent skins available in matching colors, sporty armbands that come with a skin, and fashionable keychains accompanied by a tiny case to carry the player.
As of now, Creative’s Zen Stone is available in Singapore through authorized dealers, as also at the online store at sg.store.creative.com. It is expected to hit Indian shores later this year.
Initially only the Black color Zen Stone will be available, with other colors expected to arrive mid-May onwards. The various Zen Stone accessories will also be available beginning mid-May.
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May 6, 2007 at 8:00 am
· Technology
techtree: Research In Motion (RIM) has announced its newest ‘BlackBerry Curve,’ calling it the smallest and lightest full QWERTY BlackBerry smart phone yet.
With a liquid Silver finish, chrome highlights, smooth edges, and soft curves, the full-featured ‘BlackBerry Curve’ comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, a large display, and an innovative trackball navigation system, at a size of 4.2 x 2.4 x 036 inches, and a weight of approximately 3.9 oz.
The ultra-bright 320 x 240 display includes RIM’s light sensing technology, which automatically adjusts backlighting levels for indoor, outdoor, and dark environments.
The ‘Curve’ features a 2 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom, built-in flash, self-portrait mirror, and full screen viewfinder. The camera can capture images in up to three picture quality and size resolutions that can be shared instantly by email, MMS, or BlackBerry Messenger, and transferred over Bluetooth or USB cable.
The new BlackBerry has a crisp and clear audio system, and music and videos are played through the handset’s integrated speaker, or the 3.5 mm stereo jack. The Bluetooth stereo audio profile (A2DP/AVRCP) is supported, and dedicated volume controls are conveniently located on the side of the handset.
The ‘BlackBerry Curve’ includes a powerful new desktop media manager called the Roxio Media Manager for BlackBerry, which was developed with Sonic. This media manager allows users easily search for media files on their computers, view and organize them, create MP3 music files from CDs, add audio tages, create playlists, and automatically copy or convert pictures, music, and videos for optimal playback on the ‘Curve’.
The media manager also includes Roxio Photosuite 9 LE, which is a comprehensive tool that makes it easier editing pictures and creating photo albums.
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May 6, 2007 at 7:58 am
· Technology
techtree: Logitech has reportedly unveiled the V270 Cordless Optical Notebook Mouse, its first cordless mouse that does not require a receiver of its own.
The V270 connects with notebook PCs and Apple PowerBook notebooks with an integrated Bluetooth receiver by using wireless technology.
According to Logitech, the V270 offers a one-piece, ultra-portable alternative to the touchpad.
Charcoal Gray in color, the V270 draws from the design of Logitech’s Cordless Optical Mouse for Notebooks. It uses Bluetooth 1.2 wireless technology that features adaptive frequency to reduce possibilities of interference from other 2.4GHz wireless devices like Wi-Fi notebooks and cordless telephones.
The V270 has a normal battery life of up to three months, which can be extended using an on/off switch. The mouse features a low-battery indicator for removing dead batteries, and a 1000 dpi optical engine for smooth, precision tracking on a wide variety of surfaces.
Moninder Jain, Director, South Asia, Logitech, said, “We’ve taken our best-selling notebook mouse design, and removed the receiver to come up with a product that delivers the ultimate in convenience for those who have notebooks enabled with Bluetooth wireless technology.”
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May 6, 2007 at 7:57 am
· Technology
techtree: Gigabyte today announced completing a series of “Build your PC Contest” programs for students across leading engineering colleges in the country.
Held in Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore towards late March’07, Gigabyte’s campus tours drew wide participation from students and faculty members.
Reportedly, over 1,200 students participated in the daylong program at each college, the mainstay of which was a series of 60-minute contests to build the fastest PC using components that were provided by Gigabyte, Kingston, and Intel.
The prizes won included: Gigabyte motherboards, Intel Core2Duo Processors, and Kingston HyperX memory modules for the top three fastest PC building teams at each college.
Besides, consolation prizes were given away to those who participated in the random quiz held prior to the 60-minute PC building contests.
With the country’s technical institutions churning out nearly more than half a million graduates every year, India has become a virtual hot bed for do-it-yourself (DIY) activities, in particular, building personal computers for use during campus life.
Gigabyte’s initiative is built around the concept that DIY communities - moreso in growing economies like India, can help impart valuable IT knowledge to those ‘less technically inclined,’ as also improve overall PC penetration across newer market verticals and geographies.
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