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Coal mining debate
A very interesting debate has started among your readers regarding coal mining methods and Phulbari AEC contract.
 
POWER CRISIS
The entire electricity generation, transmission and distribution system is highly inefficient and ridden with corruption.
 
Darfur massacres
The whole world is watching the incidents in Darfur, Sudan, and no one seems to have any headache about the issue. It seems we really do not care whether these innocent people live or die.
 
Unbearable load-shedding
Nowadays, it's common that electricity goes 8 or 10 times in a day. It's not a problem of a particular area. It's a problem of whole Bangladesh.
 
Iraq's hijacked future
Prof. Mansoor Moaddel, professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University and an Iraqi-American, recently wrote: "While neither American nor Iraqi security officials have yet found a way to tame the militias, the Iraqi public is increasingly drawn toward a vision of a democratic, non-sectarian government for the country."
 
Pearl Harbour and 9/11
The 9/11 attacks and air raids on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese in 1941 have many things in common.
 
Helping good guys
At the end of his article, Mr. Asif Salehi says that the educated middle class needs to help the good guys and he seems to be very vehement about this. My question to Mr.
 
Month of Ramadan
It has become a common phenomenon in our country that with the arrival of the Ramadan, the prices of the essentials soar up alarmingly.
 
Distorting history
Some people create history, others write it. But those who try to distort it are thrown down its gutters. This is the cruel lesson of history.
 
Air India passengers' plight
I have recently come across a letter on the above subject written by Mr. Aly Zaker published in your daily.
 
Attack on Saber Chowdhury
The lion and the tiger kill the prey in one stroke, but a pack of hyenas kill by merciless biting that takes hours for the prey to die.
 
Rush for admission forms
Every year we face lot of difficulties in collecting admission forms from different educational institutions. Last year, I went to Udayan School at around 8:00am to collect admission form for my son.
 
Reducing traffic congestion
To reduce traffic congestion in Dhaka, we need both sound planning and good performance at the implementation level.
 
Chief of next caretaker government
Some former advisers commented on the above subject. The irony of fate is, if we ask the same question to senior members of the coalition, the answer would be just opposite, we apprehend.
 
Whither democracy?
You could hardly find any political dictionary or encyclopaedia to define our political parochialism.
 
The price of power
We are observing a very sorry state of affairs in the energy and power sector.
 

 
   
 
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