Army guns down two BAT personnel in Uri

ARMY HAS HELD THE BAT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KILLING AND BEHEADING OF 2 INDIAN SOLDIERS IN POONCH SECTOR OF KASHMIR ON MAY 1

The Indian army said its troops foiled an attack from across the border on a patrol party along the Line of Control in Uri sector of Kashmir on Friday, killing two personnel of Pakistan’s Border Action Team (BAT).

Officials said that an army patrol spotted suspicious movement along the Line of Control and took up positions.

“BAT action against Indian army patrol along the LoC in Uri sector foiled. Two BAT terrorists killed. Operation continues,” said army’s Srinagarbased spokesman Rajesh Kalia.

The army recovered weapons from the killed BAT members.

The Pakistan army’s elite special services group forms the core of BAT, which is notorious for gruesome attacks across the de facto border between the two countries. Its primary task is to dominate the Line of Control by carrying out disruptive actions in the form of surreptitious raids.

Defence officials have said that the unit is a mix of regular Pakistani soldiers and militants. Islamabad, however, has refuted the claim.

The army has held the BAT responsible for the killing and beheading of two Indian soldiers on frontier posts in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir on May 1.

The gruesome had triggered outrage in India with defence minister Arun Jaitley vowing “appropriate reaction”.

Days after the incident, the Indian army on May 23 said it launched “punitive fire assaults” on Pakistani positions across the LoC, inflicting “serious damage”.

It released a 22-second video apparently showing some structures being reduced to rubble amid plumes of smoke .

The Delhi University may consider increasing the number of seats with the NonCollegiate Women’s Education Board (NCWEB) if they receive a lot of applications.

Currently, there are 12,200 NCWEB seats at 26 of its centres. Manoj Khanna, the convener of the admission committee of the Delhi University, said, “If we see that there are a lot of applicants interested in these courses with the NCWEB, policy may be reviewed to accommodate more students.”

The NCWEB is one of the ‘nonformal’ education centres at the Delhi University, where female students who are residents of NCT Delhi region can get admission to either BA or BCom programmes.

The students attend classes just once a week at the centres, assigned as per the cut-offs. Despite being a ‘non formal’ centre, NCWEB seats at many centres are sought after. Especially with the DU’s cutoffs skyrocketing last year, they had many students who had scored above 90%.