LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PBC) Ijaz Butt during the current month.will go to India where he will talk with the high officials of the Indian cricket board regarding Pak-India series.Talking with media at the National Cricket Academy, Lahore, chief operating officer PCB Saleem Altaf said that he is hopeful that the Indian cricket team would tour Pakistan in January as per schedule.Chairman PCB Ijaz Butt has met with the Indian high commissioner and Pakistan’s prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani regarding the cricket series between the countries.He will now again give briefing to India’s high commissioner Satyabrata Pal in Islamabad next week regarding security arrangements.Later, he will go to India for meeting with the Indian board officials on the series while a security delegation from India will come to Pakistan next month.Saleem Altaf said that talks have been held with concerned countries regarding neutral venues.He said that the PCB has to review the financial matters for playing series in India while it has already an offer from England for playing a series there.
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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