Wednesday, August 12, 2009 LAHORE: The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) has given approval to appoint a Cuban coach for the national boxers.Coach Francisco Hernandes Roland, belonging to Cuba, will arrive in Pakistan next month.Spokesman of Pakistan Boxing Federation told that the PSB contacted the Cuban coach for the preparations of the SAF Games, the Commonwealth Games and the Olympic Qualifiers and signed a contract with him after obtaining an NOC for signing agreement with the PSB.The spokesman said that coach Francisco Hernandes Roland who is working as assistant coach with the Cuban team will come to Pakistan in the first week of September, just after the World Boxing Championship in Italy, and start training Pakistani boxers here.
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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