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TOI : PUNE: Quitting the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) is likely to get tougher. Cadets wishing to bow out may have to shell out Rs 30 lakh.

“I have recommended a hike in the bond fee to discourage students from leaving in between,” Director General of Armed Force Medical Service (DGAFMS) Lt Gen. Yogendra Singh said on Thursday.

He was speaking to reporters after the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC).

Lt Gen. Singh said students are opting to quit after taking medical training from the AFMC for greener pastures.

Currently, they are required to pay Rs 15 lakh if they wish to avoid signing the bond. Now, a 100 per cent hike has been suggested, he said.

He various reasons due to which the students are opting quit. Asked if money was the reason for doctors to quit, he said the working conditions in the armed forces are tough and that is why they quit.

Dean of the AFMC, Maj Gen G. Rajgopal, said the proposal to hike the fee is likely to be approved by the government within a year. He said nine students had quit before joining the armed forces last year. Print Save EMail Write to Editor Get personalised news s…More

TOI : PUNE: Engineering consultant, Prabhakar Wawge, has developed a solar water heating system which takes much lesser space than the existing ones. The systems that are being used currently can be installed only on the terraces of buildings.

Wawge, who displayed his design to the media on Thursday, said the system manufactured according to his design can be installed even on the window panels of homes or in balconies that are open to sky.

Wawge said one of the reasons why the installations of existing models are limited despite the tax breaks and other incentives, is that they take a lot of space. In multi-storied buildings, individual home owners are not allowed to set up their solar panels on the common terrace. He claimed his design will, besides saving space and offering flexibility, make it possible to price the system for up to Rs 3,500 less than the designs currently available.

Wawge informed he has filed an application for a patent for his water heating panel design. He, however, made it clear he has no intentions of getting into manufacturing of the systems and would instead like to sell the patent to the manufacturers of these systems who can offer it as an additional option to the customers. “Rather than creating a new company, the patented design could be sold to existing, established companies. The existing network thereby increases its reach to the customers,” Wawge said.

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TOI : PUNE: Consumer electronics major and mobile phone handsets manufacturer LG Electronics India Limited (LG) and public sector mobile telephony provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) announced on Thursday an alliance to offer cellphones with bundled BSNL connections.

Anil Arora, GSM phones group business head for LG told media persons that under the offers, buyers of LG’s GSM phone handsets KG -276 and KG-271 will get a free SIM card for a connection from BSNL.

The buyers—, who will become subscribers of BSNL by virtue of buying the handsets, will get free talktime worth Rs 100 per month, for 15 months. Other BSNL options such as Friends and Family will also be available to the subscribers, Arora clarified. Arora said this is the company’s first tie-up with a GSM service provider.

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TOI : PUNE: Timely action by a policeman saved the life of a former school headmaster, who was dismissed from duty on March 31, 2008 for alleged misbehaviour and inefficiency. Sunil Deshmukh, former headmaster of Shri Shivaji Vidyalaya at Karanjkalla in Osmanabad, has been planning to kill himself at the central building here on the occasion of Maharashtra Day on Thursday.

Deshmukh and his cousin Sunil Magar were detained by the police under section 153 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. They will be produced before the court on Friday.

According to senior inspector Ranjit Dhure in-charge of the Bundgarden police station, the police received notices from six people, who felt that injustice has been done to them by the government organisations. The letters said they will commit suicide at government offices on Maharashtra Day.

Ravindra Survase and Shivaji Kamble (both from Solapur), R.P. Nangre of Khed taluka and Sampat Tribhuvan (president of the Shikshak Sanghatana, Pune) were planning to commit suicide at the office of the deputy director, primary education, on Ambedkar road. Former naik tahsildhar P.T. Khadke and Madhukar Govind Bhandge of Ahmednagar had decided to end their lives outside the offices of the divisional commissioner and director of land records, respectively.

Dhure said he had directed the policemen to maintain vigil outside the offices concerned since 6 am onwards. The police also maintained bandobast at the police commissionerate, central building, photo zinco press, district collectorate and social welfare department to prevent suicide attempts.

Head constable H.D. Bagul was on patrolling duty at the central building when he saw two men loitering in a suspicious manner on the premises. Questioning revealed that one of the men, identified as former headmaster Sunil Deshmukh, had come all the way to Pune to end his life. Bagul took Deshmukh and his cousin into custody.
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TOI : PUNE: A police naik died after he fell from the terrace of a two-storeyed building in Chintamani Nagar at Dhankawdi on early Thursday morning.

Balasaheb Shivaji Nagwade (40) was attached to the anti-dacoity cell of the crime branch. He reached home late on Wednesday and went up to the terrace to sleep at around 1 am. What happened after that is not known, but the police suspect that Nagwade was probably sitting on the terrace parapet wall, when he lost balance and fell down from a height of 25 feet. He died on the spot.

The incident came to light only at 6 am when Balasaheb’s father, Shivaji, who lives on the ground floor of the same building, walked out for opening his grocery shop and found his son in a pool of blood.

Sahakarnagar police rushed to the spot and took the victim to a nearby private hospital, but the hospital authorities refused to admit him since he was suffering from multiple injuries. Nagwade was proclaimed dead by the doctors on arrival at Sassoon. He had received multiple injuries on his head and other part of his body.

Additional commissioner of police (south region) Vivek Phansalkar told TOI that investigations have prima facie revealed that Nagwade died accidentally. Medical reports said that Nagwade suffered from epilepsy. His body was handed over to his parents after post-mortem. He is survived by his parents, wife and two children.

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