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, November 30, 2009 HELSINKI: Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and his Indian partner Rohan Bopanna clinched their third ATP Challenger doubles title of the season after defeating Jarkko Nieminen and Henri Kontinen 6-2, 7-6 in the final of the Helsinki event in Finland.The third seed duo split euro 6600 as prize money and secured 110 ranking points each.They had also won the Aachen Challenger event in Germany two weeks back.Qureshi and Bopanna had won their first title this year at the Kohrat Open in Thailand in March.They had also reached the final of the ATP 250 event in San Jose along with Jarkko Nieminen of Finland in February.
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