Wednesday, September 23, 2009 NEW YORK: One Pakistani amid six persons was kept into custody for 10 hours for investigations during FBI raids against the suspects in Qeens area here.Geo News correspondent, Sami Ibrahim in his report said that FBI raiding Queens area here arrested six persons, of them, included one Pakistani also. The report said that this string of raids had started, when a few days ago some Afghans were arrested in U.S. from whom such a laptop was recovered in which bomb making devices were found saved and on the basis of the information obtained from laptop, FBI raided a flat located in Queens area here and arrested the six persons present over there.The correspondent said that FBI released the five Afghans after initial interrogation, but one Pakistani, Abdul Mannan, hailing from Quetta and living in U.S. for the last 15 years, was still in their custody.
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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