Canberra
Thousands of students have joined mass rallies on the streets of Australia's regional capitals to protest about the violence in East Timor. They are calling for UN troops to enter East Timor immediately and for Indonesian soldiers to withdraw.
New Delhi
India's supreme court has ordered an end to positive discrimination in favour of lower-caste students seeking places on specialised postgraduate and PhD programmes, ruling that merit alone should be the criterion for admission.
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