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 09, 2009 NEW DELHI: The death toll from a case of mass poisoning involving home-brewed alcohol in the western Indian state of Gujarat jumped to 71 on Thursday, police said. The number of deaths rose from 25 on Wednesday. A police officer in the state's largest city Ahmedabad told foreign news agency that another five people were seriously ill in hospital after consuming the contaminated liquor at a party on Sunday. The official news agency reported six police officers in the city had been suspended and transferred for failing to crack down on illegal distilleries. The state's home minister on Wednesday announced an inquiry into the easy availability of bootleg liquor in the region.
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