Indonesia and India on Tuesday were named as the world's biggest catchers of sharks in an EU-backed probe into implementing a new pact to protect seven threatened species of sharks and rays.

Indonesia and India account for more than a fifth of global shark catches, according to the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC.

Indian troops shot and killed one Pakistani soldier and injured another in an "unprovoked" attack across the countries' disputed border in Kashmir, Pakistan's army said Saturday.

"A soldier embraced martyrdom while another was seriously injured due to unprovoked firing by Indian troops in Rawala Kot area at the Line of Control (LoC) on Saturday," the army said in a statement.

Police on Wednesday arrested the head of a school in eastern India where 23 children died after eating a free meal laced with a lethal pesticide, an officer said.

The children, aged four to 12, fell ill within minutes of eating the lunch of lentils, potatoes and rice cooked at their primary school in a poverty-stricken village in Bihar state on July 16.

Officials from India and China held talks Tuesday on steps to strengthen "peace and tranquility" along their border, following a stand-off in May over troop movements.

Defense and foreign affairs officials from both sides started two days of meetings in New Delhi.

Oil used to cook a school lunch that killed 23 pupils in eastern India contained a "highly toxic", concentrated form of insecticide, a forensic report and police said Saturday.

The children died after eating lentils, potatoes and rice cooked at the school last Tuesday with oil containing an agricultural insecticide that was five times the strength sold in the market place, the report said.

Six men accused in the gang-rape and robbery of a 39-year-old Swiss woman cyclist holidaying in India were sentenced to life terms Saturday by a fast-track Indian court.

"All the accused have been convicted and we are satisfied with the judgement," said the public prosecutor in the case, Rajendra Tiwari, after the court ruling in central India, the semi-official Press Trust of India and other local media reported.

Indian Kashmir was gripped by curfew Saturday, two days after security forces shot dead four demonstrators, triggering widespread protests across the Muslim-majority region.

The security forces fired Thursday on demonstrators protesting against the alleged desecration of the Koran during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan by Indian troopers during a search operation. Some 37 people were also injured.

Twenty children were hospitalized Friday after they ate lunch at school in the state of Goa, days after 23 pupils died after eating food cooked in an eastern Indian school.

Police said the incident was reported in a privately-run school in the village of Usgao, 40 kilometers (29 miles) from Panaji, capital of the western Indian state.

Indian Kashmir largely shut down amid heavy security on Friday after troops shot dead four people during a protest over a paramilitary raid on an Islamic school.

Shops, banks, schools and most government offices were closed in towns across the region, after a separatist leader called a three-day strike to protest Thursday's killings.

Indian paramilitary troops Thursday shot dead six people protesting outside a Border Security Force station in Kashmir, two police officers said.

The incident happened in Gool, 230 kilometers (143 miles) south of the main city of Srinagar, the officers said on condition of anonymity.