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TOI : PUNE: The Pune Zilla Parishad (ZP) will soon go high-tech with the launch of their website. The website will be the first ever dynamic and data-driven website in any ZP in the country. The website, which is about 90 per cent complete, will be launched at a grand function later this month.

Shyam Wardhane, chief executive officer, Pune ZP, said, “The website will be more useful to the villagers who can now view their applications on-line, know the status of their applications, besides, downloading the forms straight from the website. This will save a lot of their time, because presently they have been coming all the way to the Zilla Parishad office in Pune for all these procedures”.

The website will be updated on the new initiatives, schemes etc of the ZP on a daily basis unlike rest of the websites of various ZPs in the country which are static and provide basic information. It will also have the necessary data, contact details and e-mail ids of all the 75 elected members of the ZP as well as non-officials.

This will be listed according to the talukas and panchayat samitis. Moreover, the geographical description as well as the map of all the talukas in Pune district will also be made available.

“We have included minute details like the infrastructural facilities in every village, hospitals and their contact numbers, nearest highway, water supply and so on. The population of each village will also be listed along with details such as families below poverty line to men-women ratio in each village,” Wardhane informed.

Suhas Chatane, an official who is working on the website said, “A special link to the self help groups run by village women and anganwadis will be provided. There are about 15,000 to 20,000 self help groups and information such as the amount of…More

TOI : PUNE: Fast-track court judge S.T. Mahajan recently granted anticipatory bail to advocate Vishal Vijayrao Kale, son of a leading civil lawyer, in an alleged extortion case.

Kale was released on a personal bond of Rs 15,000. Kale had moved the district and sessions court here to get bail, after one Rajesh Shashikant Nanavati registered a complaint against him and others with the Deccan Gymkhana police station on January 24.

Opposing the plea, the prosecution alleged Kale and the others had held Nanavati and his friend Sachin Kokane captive at gunpoint in a hotel and had obtained their signatures on a cancellation deed which was executed between Nanavati and one Laxman Gange on Jan 21. Print Save EMail Write to Editor Get personalised news s…More

TOI : PUNE: Pakistan-sponsored Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agent Syed Ahmed Desai was subjected to the narco analysis test at the forensic science laboratory (FSL), in Mumbai on Monday.

Inspector Bhanupratap Barge of the special operations wing, Pune, told TOI over telephone that Desai’s test will continue on Tuesday.

Barge said Desai will be kept in a police station near the FSL. Police had obtained permission from the court for subjecting the ISI agent to scientific tests because he had refused to co-operate with the them in conducting investigations in the alleged spying case.

Desai had given vague and misleading replies to the police during interrogation and he had refused to divulge details of ISI agents operating in India. Print Save EMail Write to Editor Get personalised news s…More

TOI : PUNE: The city police on Monday arrested Chandan Mohan Lalwani (20), first year commerce student of D.Y. Patil College for his alleged complicity in the first year B.Com paper leak.

A police team led by sub-inspector Shaukatali Sayyed of the Chatushrungi police station picked up Lalwani who originally hails from Nanded from his hideout in the city, following a tip-off.

Lalwani had gone missing after the police had arrested his six associates, all students of various colleges, after the paper leak was unearthed by the crime branch, Pune.

Police had maintained vigil at the college as Lalwani was supposed to appear for the first year exam ever since his involvement had surfaced, but he did not turn up fearing arrest.

The six suspects, during interrogation, had told the police that Lalwani had provided them with copies of the
question paper.

The suspects have charged Lalwani for alleged leaking of other papers of first year B.Com.
Lalwani is the 11th suspect arrested in the paper leak case.

Police have so far arrested five students of DY Patil college including one from the same ayurvedic college, two students from the Indira college and four others including a principal and three exam officials of the Genba Sopanrao Moze Trust’s Arts, Science and Commerce College at Wadhmukhwadi, Bhosari.

Police have invoked section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code against the suspects.

Meanwhile, the police have claimed that internal supervisor Rajendra Balaji Shinde had admitted his involvement in breaking the seal of the paper for helping the students on the grounds that they were known to him.

Shinde has further admitted that he had thrown the paper packet containing the final exam of first year B.com optional papers of Maths and Statistics and Computer Concepts and Programming which was…More

TOI : PUNE: Puneites may need candles and emergency lamps from April 5, as the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (Merc) on Monday declined to give any interim order to avoid load shedding in the city till such time as additional power was sourced and contracted to tide over the demand supply gap.

However, whether the city will face load shedding or not will become clear only after the next 48 hours. In case load shedding starts from April 5, it will be done in two shifts of one-and-a-half-hour each during the morning (9 am to noon ) and evening (6 pm to 10 pm) peak hours everyday.

A detailed time-table of load shedding will be published by the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) later. A statement released by MSEDCL late in the evening said that, as the additional power could not be arranged by March 31, the MSEDCL had no option but to start load shedding in Pune from April 5 if breakthrough was not achieved in the interim period.

“The MSEDCL will fully co-operate with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Mahratta Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture, Prayas and the Sajag Nagrik Manch in working out a solution to avoid load shedding,” the statement said.

Merc made it clear that if the CII, which had initiated the Pune model involving use of captive power to prevent load shedding in Pune from June 2006, and the MSEDCL can find an interim or permanent franchisee and additional power required in the next 48 hours, load shedding could be prevented. Print Save EMail Write to Editor Get personalised news s…More