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Justice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by
positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin

 


 

Student indiscipline in universities

Today, a significant proportion of students, for that matter, come from rural backgrounds and the lower middle class and poor social backgrounds. The demand for education is based upon the size of the child population and the expansion of education benefits to all social classes. Because of this, their aspirations and preferences for employment are entirely different; these factors too have contributed to the visible deterioration of discipline among the undergraduates.

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2.6 Billion wait in line for sanitary facilities

There are more than 2.6 billion people, roughly 42 percent of the world's population, waiting in line for toilets that just do not exist, writes Thalif Deen. That's a reality, says the United Nations, which will launch the "International Year of Sanitation", come November.

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