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...
ISLAMABAD: Britain's foreign office Director Mark Lyall Grant Thursday any decision regarding former president Pervez Musharraf’s fate has to be made by Pakistan political leadership.In a statement issued from British High Commission here, he clarified that the purpose of his visit to Pakistan is not to mediate for Musharraf’s future and that any decision in this regard will be made by Pakistan’s political leadership.He said the objective of his presence in Pakistan is to take ahead the promises made by the British prime minister in connection with Pak-British strategic dialogue. My current visit is in the backdrop of British foreign secretary’s tour to Pakistan in JulyHe termed the violent extremism as a threat to Pakistan’s security, independence and people’s prosperity.
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