LAHORE: A District and Session Judge and Home Secretary on Thursday allowed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to take Munaf Kalia and Javed Khanani to Karachi.Earlier, they were produced before a Judicial Magistrate, Faisal Jameel who sent them to jail on judicial remand. According to reports, Munaf Kalia and Javed Khanani accused of being involved in financial scam were presented in the court of District and Session Judge, Syed Nasir Ali Shah who granted permission to hand over them to FIA Karachi. It may by recalled here that FIA Karachi, on the directive of DG FIA, had registered one more F.I.R. against the accused after finding more evidences against them and sent a team to Lahore for further interrogation.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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