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...
LONDON: Two British soldiers serving in Afghanistan were killed by an explosion on Saturday while on patrol in Helmand Province in the south of the country, the Ministry of Defence in London announced. One of the soldiers was from the Light Dragoons and the other from the Parachute Regiment and they were serving with the Brigade Reconnaissance Force. They "were killed as a result of an explosion that happened whilst on a deliberate operation near Musa Qal'eh, in Helmand Province on the morning of 30 May 2009," a statement from the ministry said. British troops are in Afghanistan in support of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which is fighting an extremist insurgency and building up the Afghan security forces. The deaths take to 165 the number of British service personnel who have died as part of operations in Afghanistan since 2001.
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