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...
Tuesday, December 01, 2009 PESHAWAR: NWFP minister for sports & culture Syed Aqil Shah said that the Tehmas Football Ground of Peshawar would be converted into the Tehmas International Football Stadium.He was talking with media during his visit to the Tehmas Football Ground here on Tuesday.He told that the preparations for the 31st National Games are in full swing and the players would have the facilities of international standard at the Tehmas Football Ground.Syed Aqil Shah said that 23 projects for promotion of sports in the province are in progress.He said that the federation has provided Rs1.5 billion for construction of stadiums in Punjab and Sindh whereas NWFP and Balochistan would not get any share of this amount.
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