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...
WASHINGTON: The United States is working with the United Nations to help hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons of the NWFP, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday. “The United Nations brings relief, they (UN) bring humanitarian aid. We are looking at what can be done to help the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the region because of the Taliban and the Pakistani Army’s offensive,” she said. Speaking at the Annual Global Classrooms DC Model UN Conference, the chief US diplomat referred to places experiencing conflict and violence and said, “We worry about displaced people anywhere and everywhere and looking for what more could be done for Swat IDPs.
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