Professional courses selection list out
SRINAGAR, Feb 17 — It has been a hectic week for the student community in the Kashmir valley as results of matriculation and bachelors degree courses were announced. The selection list for various professional courses was also announced here today.

‘Make report on J&K autonomy public’
NEW DELHI, Feb 17 — Former Working Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Regional Autonomy Committee Balraj Puri today asked the Farooq Abdullah Government to make public the interim report submitted by the committee some months ago.

Professional courses selection list out
Tribune News Service

SRINAGAR, Feb 17 — It has been a hectic week for the student community in the Kashmir valley as results of matriculation and bachelors degree courses were announced. The selection list for various professional courses was also announced here today by the Competent Authority Entrance Examinations.

The much talked about controversy over the selection for the MBBS course to the two medical colleges in Jammu and Kashmir last year is yet to be settled. The authority came out with the list of selected candidates for the two medical colleges today in addition to those selected for BDS, B.Sc (Agr), B.V. Sc and AH, and B.Sc Forestry degree.

As per this combined selection list as many as 725 candidates have been nominated for training in various professional courses including MBBS, BE, B.V.Sc and AH, and B.Sc Forestry in different colleges within and outside the state. As many as 299 candidates, both have been selected for the Bachelor of Engineering (BE), 308 for MBBS and 118 for other three courses. Out of the 308 candidates selected for MBBS, 65 have been selected for admission to Jhelum Valley Medical College in Srinagar. The college, a private institution, established in 1989, was recently accorded recognition by the Medical Council of India.

The University of Kashmir announced the result of the bachelors degree of arts, science and commerce on Monday, with a pass percentage of 31.53 per cent. The examination to the final year of the BA, B.Sc and B.Com were held from November last year till early January this year.

A total of 9168 candidates appeared, out of whom 2891 candidates were declared successful; 5625 candidates appeared in science courses out of whom 1805 candidates succeeded, with a pass percentage of 32.08. In the Arts faculty, 934 candidates were declared successful out of a total of 2928 with a pass percentage of 31.89. In the Commerce Faculty the lowest pass percentage of 24 was registered with the success of 152 students out of 615.

The Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education on Monday also came out with the declaration of the results of matriculation or higher secondary examination (Class X). It has recorded a pass percentage of only 23 per cent. The examinations to the Class Tenth were conducted in November last year. Out of a total of 46,586 candidates appearing in the Class X examination from the Kashmir valley, only 10,596 candidates were declared successful.

The officials at the State Board of School Education here are satisfied over the performance of the students this year as compared to the result of last year.

With the declaration of these results, the University of Kashmir and the educational institutions will reopen on a busy note on March 1 next on the expiry of the three-month-long winter vacations.

Six militants killed in J&K
Tribune News Service

SRINAGAR, Feb 17 — Six militants were killed and five security personnel were injured in separate incidents in Jammu and Kashmir since yesterday.

Four militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba were killed in an encounter with security forces at Gandoah in Doda district today. Reports said that the encounter started when militants were intercepted by security forces while trying to enter Doda from the Paghla sector. The identity of those killed was yet to be ascertained. Three security forces jawans were injured in the encounter, reports said.

Another militant was also killed in an encounter at Bodpal in Doda district. Two security forces personnel were injured in the encounter. An AK rifle and some ammunition was found from the site of the encounter.

One militant was killed in an encounter with the security forces at Panzthan in the Chhatragul area of Anantnag.

Security forces found a large quantity of arms and ammunition during search operations across the valley. Security forces raided a hideout of militants in Anantnag district yesterday and found a rocket launcher and two hand grenades. In another raid at a hideout in Anantnag town one militant was apprehended.

Security forces and the Special Task Force of the Jammu and Kashmir Police have apprehended nearly a dozen suspects from different areas in the valley since yesterday.

‘Make report on J&K autonomy public’

NEW DELHI, Feb 17 (PTI) — Former Working Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Regional Autonomy Committee Balraj Puri today asked the Farooq Abdullah Government to make public the interim report submitted by the committee some months ago.

Expressing concern about the “unusual” delay in making the report public, Mr Puri, who was sacked last month, said there were “serious doubts” about the sincerity of the Abdullah administration in giving regional autonomy to the state.

“The regional autonomy seemed to be a distant dream for people of the state,” Mr Puri said in a statement here.

He said while framing the report he had kept in mind the political, cultural and economic diversities of the region.

Mr Abdullah, while taking the oath in October, 1996, had said regional autonomy would be accorded to the three regions of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh within a year.

Stressing that regional autonomy was an essential pre-requisite for peace and balanced development in the state, Mr Puri warned any further delay in its implementation would lead to fresh complications in solving the Kashmir problem.