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Editorial
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Editorial
Big task before the new EC
They must prove equal to it
The acting chief of the Election Commission with his four commissioners quitting the Election Commission after the resignation of CEC Justice MA Aziz on leave, the deck has been cleared at last for a reconstituted EC to take charge.
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Editorial
Slum-dwellers' eviction
Rehabilitation is obligatory
As many as 5.4 million people live in the slums spread over six metropolitan cities of the country, namely, Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet and Barisal in as many as 9048 slums.
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Post Editorial
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Straight Talk
By their deeds shall ye know them
Zafar Sobhan
Once upon a time, the conventional wisdom went, the Bangladeshi polity and society were divided largely along bi-polar BNP-AL lines.
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Cross Talk
Fumes of remorse
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
The portly woman of middle age, who was the mother of two grownup daughters, started to walk in the morning after the doctor told her that she needed to watch her weight.
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Conscience & Society
Democratic dictators
Muslehuddin Ahmad
Democracy is a system of governance where people are supposed to rule themselves through their representatives, who honestly, diligently and selflessly run the system according to the views expressed by them, and for which the representatives made electoral commitments.
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