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TOI : PUNE: The Pune branch of the Chartered Accountants of India is planning to make submission of forms for admission to the information technology training (ITT) course an online process. Both Monday and Tuesday witnessed a heavy rush of people submitting forms for the course.

Milind Gramopaddhye, chairman of the Pune branch said, “There was a heavy rush of students on Monday morning, and precautions were taken so that the situation did not get out of hand. A separate window was opened to accept the forms. Being the last day, we had expected that there would be a higher number of students submitting their forms.”

So far, 530 forms have been accepted, he said. “We also accepted forms on Tuesday, even though Monday was the last date for submission.”

Gramopaddhye said that the process of submission of forms is all set to go online soon. This will enable students to fill up and submit the form at home. The online system will also help prevent the last-minute rush at the branch office.

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TOI : PUNE: The Pune branch of the Chartered Accountants of India is planning to make submission of forms for admission to the information technology training (ITT) course an online process. Both Monday and Tuesday witnessed a heavy rush of people submitting forms for the course.

Milind Gramopaddhye, chairman of the Pune branch said, “There was a heavy rush of students on Monday morning, and precautions were taken so that the situation did not get out of hand. A separate window was opened to accept the forms. Being the last day, we had expected that there would be a higher number of students submitting their forms.”

So far, 530 forms have been accepted, he said. “We also accepted forms on Tuesday, even though Monday was the last date for submission.”

Gramopaddhye said that the process of submission of forms is all set to go online soon. This will enable students to fill up and submit the form at home. The online system will also help prevent the last-minute rush at the branch office.

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TOI : PUNE: The Pune branch of the Chartered Accountants of India is planning to make submission of forms for admission to the information technology training (ITT) course an online process. Both Monday and Tuesday witnessed a heavy rush of people submitting forms for the course.

Milind Gramopaddhye, chairman of the Pune branch said, “There was a heavy rush of students on Monday morning, and precautions were taken so that the situation did not get out of hand. A separate window was opened to accept the forms. Being the last day, we had expected that there would be a higher number of students submitting their forms.”

So far, 530 forms have been accepted, he said. “We also accepted forms on Tuesday, even though Monday was the last date for submission.”

Gramopaddhye said that the process of submission of forms is all set to go online soon. This will enable students to fill up and submit the form at home. The online system will also help prevent the last-minute rush at the branch office.

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TOI : PUNE: The Pune branch of the Chartered Accountants of India is planning to make submission of forms for admission to the information technology training (ITT) course an online process. Both Monday and Tuesday witnessed a heavy rush of people submitting forms for the course.

Milind Gramopaddhye, chairman of the Pune branch said, “There was a heavy rush of students on Monday morning, and precautions were taken so that the situation did not get out of hand. A separate window was opened to accept the forms. Being the last day, we had expected that there would be a higher number of students submitting their forms.”

So far, 530 forms have been accepted, he said. “We also accepted forms on Tuesday, even though Monday was the last date for submission.”

Gramopaddhye said that the process of submission of forms is all set to go online soon. This will enable students to fill up and submit the form at home. The online system will also help prevent the last-minute rush at the branch office.

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TOI : PUNE: Two more people, including a pregnant woman, died of H1N1 influenza in the city, taking the death toll to 99.

According to Rajshekhar Iyer, medical director of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), Navnath Motiram Thobre (29), a resident of Rohkal village, Khed taluka, died at 1 pm on Tuesday. The throat swab report of Surekha Dattatray Chaure (28), from Dhamani village in Ambegaon taluka, came in on Monday, showing her positive for the H1N1 influenza. Surekha, who was eight months’ pregnant, died at the YCM hospital at 7 pm on October 31.

“Thobre was admitted to the YCM hospital in Pimpri on October 30. His condition was critical at the time of admission. He was put on a ventilator. His condition deteriorated further, following which he succumbed to the flu on Tuesday,” said Iyer. He had been sick since October 24 and took treatment from three local medical practitioners, he added.

Meanwhile, seven people tested positive for the H1N1 influenza on Tuesday. With this, the total number of infected people in the city has reached 1,587, said Kalyan Deshpande, medical officer of the state health services.

“Currently, 383 suspected patients across various screening centres in Pune district are being administered Tamiflu tablets, while around 36,501 people have been given the tablets so far,” said Deshpande. Forty-three patients were discharged on Tuesday. As many as 16 critical patients are being treated at the isolation ICUs of various private and government hospitals. Of them, eight patients are on ventilators, added Deshpande.

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TOI : PUNE: Two more people, including a pregnant woman, died of H1N1 influenza in the city, taking the death toll to 99.

According to Rajshekhar Iyer, medical director of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), Navnath Motiram Thobre (29), a resident of Rohkal village, Khed taluka, died at 1 pm on Tuesday. The throat swab report of Surekha Dattatray Chaure (28), from Dhamani village in Ambegaon taluka, came in on Monday, showing her positive for the H1N1 influenza. Surekha, who was eight months’ pregnant, died at the YCM hospital at 7 pm on October 31.

“Thobre was admitted to the YCM hospital in Pimpri on October 30. His condition was critical at the time of admission. He was put on a ventilator. His condition deteriorated further, following which he succumbed to the flu on Tuesday,” said Iyer. He had been sick since October 24 and took treatment from three local medical practitioners, he added.

Meanwhile, seven people tested positive for the H1N1 influenza on Tuesday. With this, the total number of infected people in the city has reached 1,587, said Kalyan Deshpande, medical officer of the state health services.

“Currently, 383 suspected patients across various screening centres in Pune district are being administered Tamiflu tablets, while around 36,501 people have been given the tablets so far,” said Deshpande. Forty-three patients were discharged on Tuesday. As many as 16 critical patients are being treated at the isolation ICUs of various private and government hospitals. Of them, eight patients are on ventilators, added Deshpande.

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TOI : PUNE: As many as 61 students participated in the annual river clean up’ activity of the Mercedes Benz International school recently.

Students from MYP 4 and 5 (IX and X graders) and DP (diploma) 1 and 2 (XI and XII standards), many of whom from countries like Korea, US, Canada and Germany, participated in the activity to clean up the river Mula-Mutha at Kalyaninagar. Though students from all grades participate in the activity every year, this year most of the participants were older students.

School director Michael Thompson, who participate in the river clean up activity every year, was present this year also. The head of the upper division, Michael Brown, DP co-ordinator Avi Nanda, Vijay Nanda and some Rotary Club members were also present on the occasion.

The event got good support from commodore (retd.) Panjak Mehrotra, who is part of the Indian Maritime Foundation, the organisers of the river clean up activity every year,

The staff and students of the school collected 32 bags of garbage from the river. The items collected included cloth, bones, glass, wood, plastic, idols of gods, ropes, tyres, bottles, bulbs, diapers, syringes, batteries, cigarette butts, etc.

Some family members of the students also participated in the event.

While most of the students were cleaning the banks of the river others stood on the Kalyaninagar bridge and spread awareness to the passers by using posters, etc.

Petit boys win U-16 soccer

The J.N. Petit Technical High School under-16 football team beat Terna Public School, Osmanabad, 1-0 to win the SAI state-level football tournament held in Osmanabad recently.

The Petit team will represent the state in the national-level matches to be held in Patiala this month.

During the state-level tournament, the J.N. Petit team beat Kolhapur 1-0 in the quarter finals and defending champions Don Bosco School, Matunga, in the semi-finals for 4-2.

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TOI : PUNE: As many as 61 students participated in the annual river clean up’ activity of the Mercedes Benz International school recently.

Students from MYP 4 and 5 (IX and X graders) and DP (diploma) 1 and 2 (XI and XII standards), many of whom from countries like Korea, US, Canada and Germany, participated in the activity to clean up the river Mula-Mutha at Kalyaninagar. Though students from all grades participate in the activity every year, this year most of the participants were older students.

School director Michael Thompson, who participate in the river clean up activity every year, was present this year also. The head of the upper division, Michael Brown, DP co-ordinator Avi Nanda, Vijay Nanda and some Rotary Club members were also present on the occasion.

The event got good support from commodore (retd.) Panjak Mehrotra, who is part of the Indian Maritime Foundation, the organisers of the river clean up activity every year,

The staff and students of the school collected 32 bags of garbage from the river. The items collected included cloth, bones, glass, wood, plastic, idols of gods, ropes, tyres, bottles, bulbs, diapers, syringes, batteries, cigarette butts, etc.

Some family members of the students also participated in the event.

While most of the students were cleaning the banks of the river others stood on the Kalyaninagar bridge and spread awareness to the passers by using posters, etc.

Petit boys win U-16 soccer

The J.N. Petit Technical High School under-16 football team beat Terna Public School, Osmanabad, 1-0 to win the SAI state-level football tournament held in Osmanabad recently.

The Petit team will represent the state in the national-level matches to be held in Patiala this month.

During the state-level tournament, the J.N. Petit team beat Kolhapur 1-0 in the quarter finals and defending champions Don Bosco School, Matunga, in the semi-finals for 4-2.

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TOI : PUNE: An exclusive 14-CD set of Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi’s timeless renditions, called The Complete Works Pandit Bhimsen Joshi,’ is to be released next week. The programme will be followed by Kanan Daras Karo,’ a tribute by the maestro’s son and disciple, Shrinivas Joshi.

The programme will be held at 6.30 pm on November 10 at the SM Joshi auditorium. In order to pay tribute to his father-guru, Shrinivas has conceptualised and composed bandish’ that reflect his various facets, versatility and personality, both as a person and as a classical vocalist.

“I thought of exploring the relevance of the medium called a bandish’ and if it could be used potently to describe Panditji’s personality, his singing, habits and nature,” says Shrinivas, who has written and composed 10 bandishein’.

In order to make his bandishein’ all the more interesting, Shrinivas has used statements on Panditji’s gayaki’ made by other renowned personalities from the field of music and literature. These include Ustad Vilayat Khan, playwright Vijay Tendulkar, poets Vinda Karandikar and Mangesh Padgaonkar and music enthusiast, Ramubhaiyya Date. “I will be explaining every bandish’ before performing it,” says Shrinivas.

The CD set includes vocal gems like the 78 rpm records in Raga Multani, Bhairavi, Puriya and Suhakanada. Fans can also catch up on his live performance at a concert in Nehru Centre, Mumbai; Hindi devotional songs sung by Panditji along with Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar as well as a unique collection of Marathi and Kannada devotional songs.

Equally extraordinary are Panditji’s vocal renditions on Raga Yaman Kalyan and Raga Shankara, which includes the popular bhairavi’, Boli Na Bol.’ Given his versatility, Panditji also did playback singing and sang film songs with eminent singers Manna Dey, Laxmi Shankar, Asha Bhonsle, Vasantrao Deshpande and Pandit Jasraj, among others. The CD set includes a collection of these songs.

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TOI : PUNE: An exclusive 14-CD set of Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi’s timeless renditions, called The Complete Works Pandit Bhimsen Joshi,’ is to be released next week. The programme will be followed by Kanan Daras Karo,’ a tribute by the maestro’s son and disciple, Shrinivas Joshi.

The programme will be held at 6.30 pm on November 10 at the SM Joshi auditorium. In order to pay tribute to his father-guru, Shrinivas has conceptualised and composed bandish’ that reflect his various facets, versatility and personality, both as a person and as a classical vocalist.

“I thought of exploring the relevance of the medium called a bandish’ and if it could be used potently to describe Panditji’s personality, his singing, habits and nature,” says Shrinivas, who has written and composed 10 bandishein’.

In order to make his bandishein’ all the more interesting, Shrinivas has used statements on Panditji’s gayaki’ made by other renowned personalities from the field of music and literature. These include Ustad Vilayat Khan, playwright Vijay Tendulkar, poets Vinda Karandikar and Mangesh Padgaonkar and music enthusiast, Ramubhaiyya Date. “I will be explaining every bandish’ before performing it,” says Shrinivas.

The CD set includes vocal gems like the 78 rpm records in Raga Multani, Bhairavi, Puriya and Suhakanada. Fans can also catch up on his live performance at a concert in Nehru Centre, Mumbai; Hindi devotional songs sung by Panditji along with Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar as well as a unique collection of Marathi and Kannada devotional songs.

Equally extraordinary are Panditji’s vocal renditions on Raga Yaman Kalyan and Raga Shankara, which includes the popular bhairavi’, Boli Na Bol.’ Given his versatility, Panditji also did playback singing and sang film songs with eminent singers Manna Dey, Laxmi Shankar, Asha Bhonsle, Vasantrao Deshpande and Pandit Jasraj, among others. The CD set includes a collection of these songs.

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