Saturday, July 04, 2009 KOLKATA: At least eight people died after the bus in which they were travelling fell off a bridge on the rail tracks near the Howrah station in West Bengal on Saturday, Indian police said here. The accident took place around 4pm when the bus fell from Bankim Setu on the railway tracks, almost 50 feet below the bridge. "Rescue operation is on. We are apprehending that at least six to seven people are dead in the accident and another five or more are injured," a police official said. Police and railway medical teams have rushed to the spot. "The bus fell between the two platforms (11 and 12). We have stalled operations in platforms from Platform No 10 to 23. But local trains are plying normally," Eastern Railway's chief public relations officer Samir Goswami said. "Operations on those platforms have been stopped because we have cut the electricity supply following the accident," Goswami added. A number of long distance trains were held up.
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
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