The World Health Organisation has given $2 million to a Pune-based vaccine-making firm to develop and manufacture swine flu vaccine.

Poor Contact Tracing, Cool Climate To Blame

Mumbai: Parents in Pune have pressed the panic button after the death of Rida Shaikh, the first in the country to fall to swine flu, on August 3. On Wednesday over hundreds of people thronged Pune

With over 70 of the 112 swine flu cases reported till Tuesday being detected in schools, almost every student with a hint of a cough or sore throat is being screened.

Pune, Aug. 4 The Maharashtra Government has invoked the Epidemic Control Act in Pune and Satara districts to check the spread of the H1N1 virus that causes swine flu, which claimed its first victim in India, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, here on Monday.

Will Empower State Officials To Undertake Stringent Action

Aug. 4: A day after 14-year-old Pune schoolgirl Reeda Shaikh became the first person in India to die of the H1N1 flu, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday invoked the century-old Epidemic Diseases Act in Pune and Satara districts to arm itself with special powers to compel those suspected of having the disease to get themselves admitted to government hospitals for treatment.

MUMBAI: A huge visionary project, Innovation Park, which could change the way research and development is done in western India, was given a boost on Monday with the appointment of the Science and Technology Park, Pune, as the consultant for the venture.

The H1N1 virus or swine flu claimed its first life in India when a 14-year-old girl died of multiple organ failure today at the Jehangir Hospital in Pune. She was a Class IX student of St Anne

Siddhesh Inamdar

Mumbai: Project-displaced people from Pune, Hingoli, Nandurbar, Satara and other districts of Maharashtra gathered at the Azad Maidan here on Thursday and announced the start of an indefinite demonstration, asking for justice. The agitation has been organised by the National Alliance of Peoples Movements and is being led by activist Medha Patkar.