Sunday, August 09, 2009 GLASGOW: Muslim leaders called for action against the threat of violence from the extreme right after a man was sentenced for threatening to blow up a mosque.Neil MacGregor was given three years probation at Glasgow Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to breaching the peace and failing to appear in court.The 36-year-old admitted telephoning and emailing Strathclyde Police and threatening to blow up Glasgow's Central Mosque in February 2007.
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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