NEW DELHI: After taunting the Congress with his "budhiya" (aged woman) comments, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has termed the 125-year-old national party a "gudiya" (doll), eliciting sharp reaction from the opposite camp.Addressing a poll rally in Uttar Pradesh's Shrawasti district, Modi said: "Ab mein Congress ko budhiya nahin, gudiya kahoonga. Aisa karne se kya woh jawan ho jayegi (Now I will refer to the Congress not as an aged woman, but a doll. Will it make the party younger?)"Reacting to Modi's political barbs, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi told media persons that Modi had "lost his balance" and was "causing humiliation to himself" every time he insulted the Congress.Referring to Modi's "budhiya" comment, Singhvi said that besides all the elderly people and women in the country, "he (Modi) should also apologise to L.K. Advani, who did not fall in the youth category." Advani, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, is 81 years old.
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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