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Editorial
Rehabilitating slum-dwellers
Make it part of overall vision for urban development
The government's plan to rehabilitate at least 7,000-8,000 evicted slum-dwellers through constructing buildings on two plots of the works ministry land in Mohakhali and Mirpur areas in the city is a welcome step, if only because it is for the first time that an initiative on such scale has been taken towards providing concrete roofs for the homeless to live under.
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Editorial
Date-expired food handout
Contemptible lack of sensitivity
A leading Bangla daily has carried an investigative report revealing detection of a consignment of seven and a half thousand metric tonnes of substandard rice, with the year of production shown as 2002, arriving at Chittagong port.
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Strategically Speaking
Baffling utterances
Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd)
We have again been confronted with some baffling utterances. And this time confusion is being created by remarks from all quarters -- the political parties, the government and the election commissioners.
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The rickshaw conundrum
Md. Masum Billah
The passage for plying rickshaw in the city streets is getting narrower day by day. Does it mean that we are heading towards development? Or does it show real improvement of our traffic system?
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We need to come to terms with HIV
Zulfiquer Ahmed Amin
Since time immemorial, human kind has been ravaged by waves of pandemic diseases at frequent intervals: with most mysterious, unknowable and uncontrolled tragedies, the thin veneer of human rationality was peeled back to expose a dark surface capable of incomprehensible horrors and unimaginable evil.
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