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Editorial
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Editorial
Six months of caretaker government
Some bright spots, but the real test is timely elections
The caretaker administration headed by Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed completes six months in office today. The time is therefore right to make an assessment of how it has performed during this period.
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Editorial
Manoranjan's release
Social safety net needed for the poor
The release of Manoranjan Roy, the 85-year old man from Nilphamari, who was jailed for failing to pay back a small amount of agricultural loan, certainly assuaged the feeling of discomfort that people had when they heard about the agony that the octogenarian had been subjected to.
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Ground Realities
History is not a patchwork of compromises
Syed Badrul Ahsan
It is not very cheering raising old arguments again and again. There is a point beyond which settled issues need not be prised open, or exhumed.
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The bhodroloke revolution and its discontents
Asif Yousuf and Jyoti Rahman
A bhodroloke revolution is said to have taken place in Bangladesh. At least that is how the events of January11 were advertised to an international audience by the foreign affairs advisor Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury at the Australian National University on June13.
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No Nonsense
Pensioning off the politicians
Abdullah A. Dewan
Weeks before Sheikh Hasina proposed a 60 years age limit for AL politicians to hold important party portfolios and elected offices, I was struck by the same idea after watching BNP's Major General Shawkat Ali speak on this issue, which I find representative of both his advancing age and depleted wisdom.
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