Wednesday, September 30, 2009 MANAMA: Kuwait is planning to deport 17,000 foreigners guilty of overstaying in the country or of involvement in illegal activities that include forgery, embezzlement and prostitution. The decision was suggested by the interior ministry which does not see any reason for keeping them in Kuwait, especially that most of them are free visa labourers, a daily reported on Sunday, quoting unnamed ministry sources. According to the sources, the list of the people to be deported includes 4,000 Bangladeshis, 3,500 Indians, 1,200 Egyptians, 1,000 Filipinos, 1,000 Indonesians, 1,000 Pakistanis, 1,000 Afghanis, 750 Syrians, 500 Thais, 500 Iranians, 500 Chinese, 500 Nepalese and 500 Ethiopians. The remaining people to be deported are from other countries, but their numbers vary between 50 and 100 for each nationality, the sources said.
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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