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Apprehending arson, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has requested the Pune rural police to probe the reasons for the outbreak of the fire at the garbage depot at Uruli Devachi, about 20 km from the city.The civic administration on Tuesday lodged a complaint application at Loni Kalbhor police station on the issue. Solid waste management head Suresh Jagtap said that the PMC has given a complaint for a probe into the outbreak of the fire. The fire broke out on Sunday at the process…

Mumbai

May 26, 2010 Worldsnap Staff

Cyber crime: victims don’t know whom to call

What do you do in case you come across a cyber crime? Well, 79% of the educated Mumbai residents do not have an answer, as was found out during a survey conducted by a team of experts from the KPMG Advisory Services. The survey was conducted by speaking to Mumbaikars and contacting them through email. The results of the survey were released at a round table conference held on Tuesday at the Indian Merchants’ Chamber. The conference was part of the Cyber Safety Week organised by Mumbai …

Mumbai

May 25, 2010 Worldsnap Staff

GenNext should be entrusted with the job of collecting census data

I was reading about the current problem faced by the government in collating the census data and had a ‘Zara Saa Hatke’ solution for the same. Every problem is simple and only out of a problem is born an innovation, and to get to solutions we need to be different.Firstly, I believe that teachers must not be entrusted with something that they do not cherish doing and in my opinion the quality of output may not be satisfactory, if one is forced into doing these kinds of activities. Employ…

Pune

May 25, 2010 Worldsnap Staff

Six held for making vulgar calls on 100

Six youths have landed in the police lock-up in the last two months for calling up the emergency number 100 and passing vulgar comments on women police personnel on duty. The women police personnel filed complaints against the youths. Additional commissioner of police (administration) Sanjeev Singhal told DNA that the police have decided to take the matter seriously and stern action would be taken against the pranksters. "So far we have filed six cases and stern action will be tak…

Mumbai

May 25, 2010 Worldsnap Staff

One body is still to be identified

Even 15 months after the terrorists attacked Mumbai, one body has remained unidentified.The 1,500-page judgment in the 26⁄11 case, which was made available by the special court on Monday, mentions that one body at CST, where Kasab and his accomplice Abu Ismail killed 54 people, is still unidentified.The judgment, delivered by special judge ML Tahaliyani, has also stated that the said body is of an unidentified male who succumbed to firearm injuries.All the bodies have been identified…