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Editorial
 
Editorial
Grand alliance's poll boycott
Uncertainty stares us in the face
THE decision of the grand alliance -- announced by Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina yesterday -- to boycott the January 22 parliamentary election has created great political uncertainty.
 
Editorial
A fuel crunch out of the blue
Govt needs to look into the matter and fix responsibility
ALTHOUGH the closure of the oil companies' fuel supply depots for five days since December 29 officially ended on January 2, the chain impact it has had on the economy cannot be sloughed off so easily.

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No Nonsense
Flirting with bigots: BNP vs AL
Dr. Abdullah A. Dewan
No sooner was my defense of objective journalism archived before I found myself faced with an opportunity to prove the even-handedness of my column.
 
Ground Realities
Awami League, fatwa and our self-esteem
Syed Badrul Ahsan
A section of the Awami League leadership, if not the whole leadership, would like us to think that the Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish has finally come round to accepting secularism as a plank of state policy.
 
Byline
Year end jottings
M J Akbar
SOME odds and ends from a jumble of books picked up during a year's rummage of bookshops. Opening thought: can any piece of information be totally useless? The emphatic answer is no.
 

 
   
 
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