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...
MIRPURKHAS/Pakistan: A farmer has successfully grown mango trees in Mirpurkhas that can bear fruit throughout the year. The mangoes can be seen hanging by these trees even in the winter season.Mir Ali, a farmer of Mirpuskhas, has prepared saplings of mango trees in Dehkak area which can bear fruit in all the seasons of Pakistan.These saplings are now being sold on a small scale.Regular saplings of mango trees are sold for Pak/Rs50 to Pak/Rs60 while the price of these have been fixed at Pak/Rs100.
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