Pune, November 21 : Engineering Expo 2008, a trade fair, was inaugurated by Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Commissioenr Asheesh Sharma and Krishna Tewari, executive vice president, Publishing, Infomedia 18 Limited in Pimpri.

Also present on the occasion were Uday Jadhav, deputy CEO, MIDC, Saurabh Shukla, MD, Phoenix Mecano, B K Bose, vice president, purchasing, Cummins, Neeraj Madhekar, zonal head, Emerging Cluster Group, ICICI Bank and senior journalist Senthil Chengalvarayan.

PUNE: Pune, touted as the IT hub of India, seems to be a bit lax about WiFi security.

The Pune police and wireless security professional
Rohit Srivastwa together
conducted a wardriving exercise in Pune, which revealed that 81% of WiFi users in Pune are using unsecured or partially-secured access points.

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PUNE: The multi-role strike fighter squadrons of Sukhoi 30MKI, which had moved out of Lohegaon Air Force station have now returned in style — after a successful Red Flag excercise in the US. In the next few months, the fleet will be enforced with a third squadron, making it one of the strongest airbases in the western region.

Although the squadrons returned from Jodhpur a few weeks ago Saturday's comeback was more apt following the multinational air exercise in the US.

MUMBAI: The Naresh Goyal-promoted Jet Airways has set ambitious goals of achieving a turnover of $4 bn (over Rs 18,000 crore) by the end of the current fiscal and breakeven in 2010.

Last year, it recorded a turnover of Rs 10,000 crore while the combined loss of Jet and JetLite stood at $152 mn (nearly Rs 690 crore) for the year ended March 31.

Just when Volkswagen India is gearing up to roll out its cars from Chakan in Pune by next year, one of its key vendors, the Indian arm of Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr (IAV) GmbH is drawing a blueprint to set up a development center in the same city to serve the German luxury carmaker efficiently.

A space crunch at its BPO facility here has prompted Infosys Technologies to send 3,000 of the company's new recruits to Chennai, a top official has said.

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rey Matter India Technologies, a reputed IT outsourcing provider based in Mumbai officially announced the opening of its new captive technical ODC in Baner, Pune. This is the second operational unit in the satellite city and is in conjunction with GMI's aggressive business expansion plans. Spread over an area of 2500 sq ft, the new unit expands GMI's technical talent pool by 60 engineers.

PUNE: Two Pune scientists are among 11 from across the country who will be honoured by the National Academy of Sciences (NASI) for their researches in physical sciences.

The academy initiated the NASI Young Scientist Awards last year to honour budding scientists below the age of 35.

Siddhartha Gadgil and Yogesh Joshi, the outstanding scientists from Pune, will be presented a medal and cash prize of Rs 25,000 each in end-November .