Tuesday, June 02, 2009 NEW DELHI: Sources in the Indian Government reacted with dismay on hearing the news of the Lahore High Court ending the house arrest of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed on Tuesday.Most of them described Saeed’s arrest by the Pakistani authorities for his role in the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008 as eyewash.They said that the High Court’s view that there was just not enough evidence to continue the detention of Saeed certified that similar arrests made in the past have also ended in similar releases.They said the Lahore High Court order showed that Pakistan is back to backing terrorism from its soil again, despite the evidence supplied by New Delhi indicating Saeed’s clear role in 26/11.An official reaction from the Ministry of External Affairs is expected later in the day.
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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