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Tough policy prompted by repeated complaints from wealthy neighbours Rowdy students who live in a wealthy Halifax neighbourhood that is home to two Supreme Court judges and several Dalhousie University alumni have prompted a tough new policy that could see them lose scholarships and on-campus jobs and even risk expulsion for disrupting the community. A Dalhousie official said yesterday the school was forced to take extreme measures after a particularly rambunctious autumn. Unseasonably warm weather and a hurricane that swept through Nova Scotia in late September have led to many students being more interested in partying than studying. "It's a...

CHENNAI OCT. 2... The 2,000-odd residents of Jamarah Thottam off Walltax Road here are terrorised by a handful of women rowdies living in 20-odd huts, so much so that not even local leaders dare to speak about them. The locality is a cramming with illegal lodges, buildings and slums, choking the already narrow streets. According to residents, it is a market for stolen goods, breeding ground for illnesses, history-sheeters, drug peddlers, addicts and lower-rung politicians and hideout for criminals from outside.But the residents and businessmen here are not as fearful of them as they are of the “women rowdies” of...