GAZA: Israel launched more air strikes in the Gaza Strip and Palestinians kept up rocket fire against southern Israel on Monday in a fourth day of hostilities in which 23 Palestinians have been killed.

Islamabad: A Pakistani court today directed police to take into protective custody a 19-year-old Hindu girl and her Muslim husband, amid allegations that she was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam.

Kandhar: Western forces shot dead 16 civilians including nine children in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, Afghan officials said, in a rampage that witnesses said was carried out by American soldiers who were laughing and appeared drunk.

WASHINGTON: Teachers, the world may not be your oyster, but it can certainly be your classroom. Distance education took a giant leap on Monday with the launch of TEDEd, a non-profit initiative that harnesses the talent of the world's best teachers and visualizers to take great lessons beyond the classroom to anyone with internet access. In other words, if you are a great teacher, you can take your best lessons or tutorials beyond your classroom and be viewed by millions of students.

Dubai/New Delhi: Reacting sharply to a British newspaper claim that the India-Pakistan semifinal in the 2011 cricket World Cup may have been fixed, the ICC tonight dismissed the claim as “spurious”.

MUMBAI: Bollywood starlet Nupur Mehta confirmed on Monday that the picture splashed across newspapers and TV channels in cricket-playing nations was hers, but denied any link with the match-fixing controversy. The actress also threatened to sue the UK newspaper Sunday Times for first using her photograph. "I am really hurt and considering legal action against the paper for using my picture," Nupur told mediapersons.

MIRPUR: The streets of Dhaka wore a deserted look. The rally called by the opposition four-party alliance had brought the city to a standstill and the first piece of information filtering out was that both India and Sri Lanka would not leave the team hotel for the whole day.

Kota. Kanva Rishi Ashram Kansuadham two days 11th and 12th March was faithful to the fair. In two days more than 40 thousand people appeared to be the secret Lingam. Balaji on Monday to be derived from the Kansua procession to the city and district Kavdyatra and the large number of devotees rushed to Views. The water from the Chambal Bholebaba Shivbkton the anointed. On Monday, Baran, Bundi, Jhalawar and remove roadblocks from the faithful Views for the vessel arrived.

Kota. Rajasthan Technical University exam after the students will receive their copies to view. After getting permission from the State Government, Pro Vice-Chancellor. Singh Yadav on Monday issued its order.

Chechat (Kota). Chechat Saledhaklan of police in the village Monday evening while taking Thresr gram crop was to be drawn into the tragic death of a farmer. Kanha Knhiram Gujjar alias Lokendra Paliwal said SHO (40) family on the farm tractor and thresher machine was removed from the gram crop threshers suddenly came into his hands. The part and the head stuck on a thresher.