MORENA: A BJP worker was shot and injured after a dispute with the rival BSP workers over the issue of voting in favour of the saffron party at Budha Chambal village of Morena district here today, police said. The incident occurred when the BJP worker identified as Subedar Singh Sikarwar was coming out of a polling station in the village, police said. When Subedar crossed the poll-booth limits he was confronted by a group of BSP worker led by Prem Singh Sikarwar, they said. Prem Singh confronted Subedar for supporting the BJP candidate and later opened fire at him with a country-made pistol. The bullet hit Subedar on his chest following which he was rushed to Gwalior in serious condition, police said. However, Morena Superintendent of Police (SP) Santosh Singh told PTI that Subedar had an old rivalry with Prem Singh and Thursday's incident was a fall out of it. He said that this incident cannot be termed as a poll-related violence as it took place at a far-off place from the polling station. After Subedar was shot at, BJP and BSP workers clashed in which two more unidentified persons sustained injuries, he added.
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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