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Editorial
 
Editorial
Warding off epidemic
Crying need for planned approach
Appalling statistics are pouring in from different hospitals about the incidence of diarrhoea and cholera. Absence of potable water and lack of food are forcing people to drink contaminated water and eat anything they can lay their hands on.
 
Editorial
Ban on unauthorised campuses
Proper monitoring and evaluation are a necessity
A number of unauthorised branches or outer campuses of some private universities will soon be closed down. The move clearly points to some of the things that have been going wrong with private universities in Bangladesh, especially where proper affiliation and maintenance of standards are concerned.

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Straight Talk
Ten thousand whispering and nobody listening
Zafar Sobhan
The flooding that we periodically suffer and are in the midst of right now are a poignant illustration of both the best and the worst in us as a people and as a nation.
 
Cross Talk
Open guilt and secret shame
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
I had mixed feelings when I heard the news. My chest swelled after a former prime minister declared her undisclosed income and came forward to pay taxes.
 
Letter From Europe
The complex world of mortgage market
Chaklader Mahboob-ul Alam writes from Madrid
A few years ago, the mortgage market was not at all complicated, at least in principle. Buying a house was and still is probably the single most important investment an ordinary person makes in his whole lifetime.
 

 
   
 
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