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...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 NEW DELHI: After her engagement last week, Sania Mirza is back on court. This time she was accompanied by her fiance Sohrab Mirza and her father.While Mirza practiced at the Lal Bahadur tennis stadium, Sohrab watched from the sidelines.Sania admitted that Sohrab isn't too interested in Tennis but did follow her career. The 23-year- old will be back on tour and prepare herself for The US open with a few tournaments before that. She had crashed out of Wimbledon in the second round earlier this month and will be hoping that the luck of her new companion rubs off on her.
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