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...
Thursday, July 30, 2009 LAHORE: The chairman national cricket selection committee Iqbal Qaism said Shaid Khan Afridi is the best option to captain national Twenty20 team following Younis Khan’s stepping down as T20 captain.Talking to media here at Gaddafi Stadium on Wednesday, he said Pakistan cricket team is rather experienced in one day cricket format as compared to Test cricket so Pakistan is expected to perform well against Sri Lanka in ODIs.He hoped to set future course of action to bring betterment in Pakistan cricket after Sri Lanka tour, which will surely help form a formidable squad for Champions Trophy.I am not agreed to Wasim Akram’s statement that Shoaib Akhter career has come to end as a fit Shoaib is still a great national asset, he concluded.
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