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...
Monday, October 12, 2009 TEHRAN: The president of Iran says failure of upcoming nuclear talks would hurt the West more than Iran.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says October 19th conference in Vienna will be a test for additional "fruitful" work on the issue of Iran's nuclear program.Western nations are continuing to urge Iran to curtail any nuclear efforts toward weaponry.Sanctions have already been imposed on Iran, and there's talk of stiffer measures if Tehran doesn't abandon disputed elements of its nuclear program.Iran has insisted its nuclear efforts are geared solely toward energy production.
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