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Editorial
 
Editorial
No dialogue until parties reform?
EC's shifting positions perplexing
Election Commissioner Sohul Hussain's statement that the EC will not engage in a dialogue with the political parties until intra-party reforms are carried out raises a very clear question: whether it is the commission's job to set its pace of work on the basis of what the parties undertake to do within or among themselves.
 
Editorial
Declining RMG export
Heed the signals
A report appearing in a Bangla daily indicating a 30 percent decrease in the orders for Bangladeshi apparels reads disquieting. A whole range of events have combined to cause shrinkage in the demand of our readymade garments.

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Ground Realities
Why the Anti-Corruption Commission matters . . .
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Mahbubur Rahman's decision to walk way from the position of chief prosecutor to the Anti-Corruption Commission certainly saves the country a whole lot of embarrassment.
 
No Nonsense
Shame
Abdullah A. Dewan
Referring to BNP-Jamaat's free-for-party loyalists' impudent corruption and looting of state properties and assets, Maulana Obaidul Haque, in his Friday khutba deliberations at the Baitul Mukarram mosque, pronounced the most amusing words yet.
 
Closeup Japan
Cry Hiroshima! Cry Nagasaki!
Monzurul Huq
How long does it take for a person enjoying a relatively good life to understand the sufferings of others? To borrow the words from Bob Dylan, we can say in a vague way that the "answer is blowing in the wind."
 

 
   
 
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