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Editorial
 
Editorial
The governance issue
Accountability in high places must be ensured
The decision by the council of advisers to do away with the import of duty free vehicles for lawmakers raises anew the matter of corruption in high places.
 
Editorial
Hill flattened for housing plots
Telling upon eco-system
District authorities of Cox's Bazar allegedly bypassing rules and despite protests by the forest department, demolished a hill near Cox's Bazar beach to create housing plots for bureaucrats.

Post Editorial
 
Ground Realities
The history our children must know
Syed Badrul Ahsan
A nation that teaches false history to its young is a society condemned to perdition, or worse. In Bangladesh, especially since the coups d'etat of 1975, a palpable distortion of history has been going on with, of course, a slight intermission during the period of Awami League government between 1996 and 2001.
 
Bottom Line
After New Delhi
Harun ur Rashid
The just-concluded New Delhi summit (April 3-4) appears to have injected a new dynamism in Saarc. This is evident from the speeches made by all the eight leaders of Saarc.
 
BJP plumbs the lower depths
Praful Bidwai
The Bharatiya Janata Party has resorted to foul communal means to win votes by producing a virulently anti-Muslim compact disc.
 

 
   
 
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