12th language added in online dictionary

12th language added in online dictionary

Vaishali Balajiwale / DNA

December 13, 3:53 IST

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Mumbai: Digital dictionary khandbahale.com added the 12th language to their database and launched the-first-of-its-kind Indian language dictionary online on 12.12.12 at 12:12:12pm.

Founder of the site Sunil Khandbahale made the launch atIMRT college in Nashik in a laboratory. The exact time was counted down by 12 known personalities in the city. “The launch was planned to resemble a satellite launch to show that language can also be exciting,” he said. Khandbahale.com already operates online word dictionaries in 11 languages. With the addition of Urdu, the website has 12 languages with 16 domains and 60 lakh words.

 

2 more suspected dengue cases put schools on alert

2 more suspected dengue cases put schools on alert

Maitri Porecha & Puja Pednekar / DNA

December 11, 22:34 IST

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Mumbai: Two more children from the Malwani MHADA colony, suspected to have dengue, were admitted to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Andheri on Tuesday. Alarmed city schools are on alert.
Brothers Mohammed Faiz, 17, and Mohammed Faiz Idris, 15, were admitted to the hospital after their condition worsened in a private nursing home in Malad over the past two-three days. Idris is a Std IX student at Ryan International School, Malad.
Schools, especially those in the western suburbs, are taking preemptive measures to ensure that dengue, and other such diseases, don’t spread among students. With BMC’s help, school authorities are conducting fogging sessions on their premises.
Yogesh Patel, director of Swami Vivekananda International School in Gorai and Borivli, said, “School premises need to be completely safe and germ-free for children. Suburbs have a big mosquito problem. The BMC is supposed to do fogging regularly, but it doesn’t. Hence, we have scheduled fogging sessions in the next few days.”
Avnita Bir, principal of RN Podar School, Santa Cruz, said as such mosquitoes are found in stagnant pools of water and dusty corners, such as under the benches, they have alerted their housekeeping staff to clean classrooms well.
Schools with a sprawling green campus, such as Rajhans Vidyalaya and Holy Family School, in Andheri, have doubled their efforts to maintain a safe, mosquito-free environment for students. Father Francis Swamy of Holy Family School, said, “Ever since reports about dengue have resurfaced, we are taking care to ensure that students don’t fall sick. We held fogging sessions and took other preventive measures as well.

 

Mobile net service all set to be faster

Mobile net service all set to be faster

Kanchan Srivastava / DNA

December 11, 7:00 IST

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Mumbai: Are you fed up with mobile service providers whose claims of high internet speed don’t match what you receive? You don’t have to worry anymore as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has finally come up with stringent rules which will force operators to maintain the quality and speed of wireless data services available on your phone.

Through a notification released on December 4, TRAI has made it mandatory for all operators to maintain the quality of services provided by them and, more importantly, to set up a system to keep trackof a user’s data transmission details, download/upload attempts from a test server, minimum download and output speed from a test server covering all tariff plans, data drop rate etc.

The notification states: “Operators will have to compulsorily maintain a test set up comprising of servers and test probes to cover the entire licensed service area.”

The move aims to force the providers to have a ‘reporting tool’ to track and maintain the quality of wireless data services. Rajan Srivastava, a telecom expert associated with an MNC, says, “This will also make consumers more aware about the value for their money, as they usually get fooled by advertisements which claim to give a certain data speed, which is never provided.”

Rajan Mathews, director general, Cellular Operators Association of India, says, “India is the second-largest market in the world, so it’s good that we are coming up with a system which others can follow. Operators are already maintaining the quality, but with the new tool, consumers will have clarity on what to expect from providers. They will know about minimum, maximum and average speed now.”

Mathews added that the tool is already integrated into the system. “We will now have to report on the basis of parameters set by TRAI.”

Trai has also mad eit compulsory for service providers to publish on their websites, the details of all data services offered along with tariffs, clearly indicating the cities and towns where such data services and tariff plans are applicable. The service providers shall not offer new data services or modify the existing data services without publishing it on the website

 

BMC's dengue drive goes up in smoke

BMC’s dengue drive goes up in smoke

Maitri Porecha / DNA

December 10, 6:04 IST

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Mumbai: Five deaths and at least 1,000 cases of dengue since January this year has spread panic among residents in the city. Residents of Mhada colony in Malwani complain that even though two persons from their locality succumbed to the deadly disease in the last week alone, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has failed to step up measures to control the situation.

Tariq Jafri (32), a resident of Samuha (society no 136) in Malwani, succumbed to dengue shock syndrome on Wednesday, while his four-year-old daughter Tasneem died three days later.

In the past one month, nine persons from the society fall ill due to dengue. BMS student Bhavna Kamble (18), who stays two blocks away from the Jafris, was detected positive for dengue last month. She was admitted to Surana Hospital for 15 days.

"I had to miss my semester exams. I was vomiting incessantly and had high grade fever. There is a high proliferation of mosquitoes in and around the houses," said Bhavna.

Doctors say Dengue Shock Syndrome can fatally affect an individual within as less as three days of contracting it.

Even as the probability of residents contracting dengue in the Mhada colony is very high, the residents complain that the BMC has not made them aware as to how to prevent the disease. Close to 35,000 residents reside in 6,000 tenements in the Malwani Mhada colonies.

"After two deaths in the colony, BMC officials hung two to three posters. They did not even distribute temephos insecticide to kill larvae of mosquitoes. There is no awareness programme," rued Akhtar Khan, a resident.

"The residents should take care that no stagnant water collects in potted plants or buckets," said Dr Mangala Gomare, epidemiology head, BMC.

 

4-yr-old still critical with dengue

4-yr-old still critical with dengue

Maitri Porecha

December 8, 4:51 IST

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Mumbai: Four-year-old Tasneem Jafri, daughter of Malwani resident Tariq who died of dengue on Wednesday, is also suffering from the deadly disease. She was shifted from the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital to the BMC-run Nair Hospital on Friday evening.

Deceased Tariq, 32, his widow Shakila, 30, and Tasneem have been suffering from dengue since December 1. “Tasneem is in respiratory distress and has also fluid accumulation in her right chest. She is in the intensive care unit,” said a doctor from Nair Hospital adding that the mother, Shakila is stable.

Tasneem's mother Shakila has been admitted in the general ward. “Tasneem's liver is swollen heavily, and she is on oxygen support in the ICU at Nair Hospital. We are praying that she will recover,” said Tasneem's uncle Sakib.

At least 11 residents from a Mhada residential colony in Malwani have contracted dengue over the past month. After the sudden death of Tariq within five days of acquiring high grade fever, BMC workers were seen fogging the houses in the colony.

The residents are upset that it took a death for the civic body to wake up. “The BMC has done nothing to educate the masses as to how to prevent dengue. It was only after Tariq's death that the officials fumigated the area for the sake of it,” said a resident, Akhtar Khan.