Monday, September 21, 2009 ROME: At least 200 people have been arrested in Italy for illegally entering into the country; most of them are Pakistanis.At least 44 people hailing from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Turkey have been arrested from a truck en route to enter Italy via Greece.42 people have been returned to Greece and two minor among them have been handed to City Social Services Department.Furthermore, 138 people were arrested from near Sicily; most belong to Libya.The arrested people said they have paid one thousand dollars to the human smugglers.
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...
Comments