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...
Thursday, October 08, 2009 KARACHI: Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves swelled owing to the loan tranches of $410 million from Asian Development Bank (ADB) and World Bank (WB), Geo News reported Thursday.Talking to Geo News, the spokesman of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Syed Wasimud Din said the national forex reserves surged to the level of $14.74 billion with an addition of $257.7 million within the week ending on October 3.Of these reserves, the central bank has $11.16 billion and commercial banks have $3.58 billion.Syed Wasim said Pakistan received tranches of a total of $410 billion from Asian Development Bank (ADB) and World Bank (WB) in the last trading week.
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