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LAHORE: The Punjab government would start various programmes to provide opportunity to about 38 million illiterate/out-of-school people in order to achieve the millennium development goals, officials said on Saturday.
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BANGALORE: A young man allegedly stabbed his lover to death, before killing himself at HBR Layout, Subhash Nagar, in KG Halli police limits on Tuesday night. He was upset that his lover had entered into a marriage alliance with another boy, the police said.

The deceased have been identified as Geetha (24), resident of HBR Layout and Shakir Hussein (24), a resident of Govindanagar. Geetha hailed from Hosadurga in Chitradurga district, while Hussein was from Guntkal in Andhra Pradesh.

Both were colleagues in the Bajaj Allianz insurance company at Shanthinagar.
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California State University System, Dartmouth are the Newest Schools to Recognize the Leading English Language Test

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 (PRNewswire) The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) today announced that more than 2,000 U.S. academic faculties, colleges and universities accept its English language proficiency test. Most recently Dartmouth College undergraduate admissions and the 23-campus California State University graduate school system recognized the test further proving its efficacy.
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KATHMANDU - A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet.

“The footprints were about 20 centimetres (eight inches) long and looked like a human’s,” Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of the Yeti Project Japan, told AFP in Kathmandu on Monday.
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BANGALORE: A fire that damaged a Bangalore church was part of a radical Hindu attack, Archbishop Bernard Moras said, refuting police claims that it was an accident.

After visiting the site of the blaze at St Anthony’s Church, Archbishop Moras told UCA News the incident was a well planned attack on the church and not caused by an electrical short circuit as the police claimed. “If it was so, how could the lights and fans work even now?” he asked.
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