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Three militants shot on LoC
Poonch, Jammu, November 28
Barely 48 hours after Pakistan declared ceasefire along the Indo-Pak border, Indian soldiers shot dead three heavily armed infiltrating terrorists near the Betaar nullah along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district late last night.

BEd students seek recognition
Jammu, November 28
Students of private BEd Colleges of the state staged a dharna on the campus of the university here today after realising that the course for which they had paid heavy fees was not recognised by the National Council of Teaching Education.

The Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University, Mr Amitabh Mattoo, tries to pacify the students of B.Ed colleges protesting against the non-recognition of their course The Vice- Chancellor of Jammu University, Mr Amitabh Mattoo, tries to pacify the students of B.Ed colleges protesting against the non-recognition of their course.
— Photo by N.R. Sharma

General Vij visits forward areas
Jammu, November 28
The Army chief, Gen N.C. Vij, today visited the forward areas in Kupwara district of the Kashmir valley to assess the situation following the ceasefire between Indian and Pakistani troops. The ceasefire has been complete for the past three days. General Vij will visit the border areas of Poonch and Rajouri districts in Jammu division tomorrow. — TNS

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Three militants shot on LoC

Poonch, Jammu, November 28
Barely 48 hours after Pakistan declared ceasefire along the Indo-Pak border, Indian soldiers shot dead three heavily armed infiltrating terrorists near the Betaar nullah along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district late last night. One Laskar-e-Toiba militant was killed today in Udhampur.

Official sources said today troops manning the LoC saw a group of heavily armed militants trying to enter by crossing the LoC late last night. When challanged the terrorists opened fire on the jawans and in the ensuing exchange of fire two ultras were shot dead last night while another was gunned down in the wee hours today.

The slain infiltrators were identified as Bansher Ali, an district commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen Pir Panjal Regiment, Saif Ullah, a resident of Trakli village in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), and a guide, Nazir Hussain a resident of Banchh village in Poonch district.

Two AK-47 rifles, six magazines, four hand grenades and one wireless set were seized from them, sources added.

Meanwhile, in the continuing encounter in the Narmala area under Gool police station since last evening in which four ultras, two each of the Let and Hiz-bul-Mujahideen were shot dead, jawans today gunned down one more LeT terrorist.

In other incidents, two women were injured when militants hurled a grenade on a school in Poonch district today.

Militants lobbed the explosive on the school also housing families of two surrendered ultras in Surankote town. No student was present in the school at the time.

Four members of a family, including a woman, were seriously injured as suspected militants lobbed a grenade on a house in Kandi village of Kupwara district in north Kashmir this morning.

Four security personnel were seriously injured in an ambush by militants in the Beerwah area of Badgam district today. — UNI, PTI

BEd students seek recognition
Tribune News Service

Jammu, November 28
Students of private BEd Colleges of the state staged a dharna on the campus of the university here today after realising that the course for which they had paid heavy fees was not recognised by the National Council of Teaching Education (NCTE).

They raised slogans against the authorities and demanded that steps should be taken to get the course recognised by the NCTE, without which their future prospects would be bleak.

They are 41 B.Ed colleges in the Jammu region and 32 in the Kashmir valley. Most of the students in these institutions are from Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal and Delhi.

The Vice-Chancellor, Mr Amitabh Matto, said a team of university officials would be despatched to Jaipur on Monday to settle the issue with the NCTE and the Rajasthan Government, which had disqualified from government jobs the candidates who did the course in this state.

A student, Vinod Suryawanshi, who has come here from Ludhiana for the B.Ed course, said he had already paid Rs 30,000 for the course, which would go waste as the course was not recognised by the NCTE.

Another student, Susheel Kumar, from Mangarh in Rajasthan, said he had arranged the fee for the course with difficulty, but it would all be in vain.

The fact came to light recently when a few students with a B.Ed degree from here were denied government jobs in Rajasthan on the plea that the NCTE did not recognise the institutions in this state.

The university authorities said the NCTE Act of 1994, passed by Parliament, was not applicable to Jammu and Kashmir as the state assembly had not ratified it.

Mr Matoo said the problem had come up for the first time. No student had faced any problem in the past about 10 years, during which more than 80,000 students had received training in these institutions.