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Editorial
Draft police ordinance
Hold public discourse before adoption
A roundtable arranged by this newspaper on the Bangladesh Draft Police Ordinance 2007 on Saturday highlighted some important police reform issues in the country.
 
Editorial
Relief work with a bang!
Special privilege for the new political party?
The authorities' reservations about using banners by political parties while conducting relief operations could be construed as an attempt to keep an essentially humanitarian job above or away from politics.

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Bottom Line
Is India a victim of its own policy?
Harun ur Rashid
Unilateral water diversion, or withdrawal of water from international or common rivers, has been the long-standing policy of India.
 
Closeup Japan
A Japan that can say no
Monzurul Huq
Almost two decades ago, the deceased Sony chief Akio Morita joined hand with the Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara to co-author a book that was much criticized in the West, particularly in the United States, for being too nationalistic in its tone.
 

 
   
 
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