Vol. 4 Num 301 Fri. April 02, 2004       Home  News Today's Index Front Page Business Sports Point-counterpoint Culture General Views Editorial Letters to Editor Write to Editor Sections Environment World Others About Us Contact Advertisement Supplements Archives Editorial   Editorial Yes to dialogue No to hartals, no to repression of opposition The business community has called upon the government and the opposition to iron out their differences through dialogue.   Editorial Potable water scarcity Act beyond crisis management The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) in Dhaka is taking resort to a contingency measure that rings familiar almost as an annual feature. Post Editorial   Straight talk Is now the right time for a new political force? Zafar Sobhan These are troubled times in Bangladesh. The entire country waits on tenterhooks to see what the month of April holds for us.   Cross talk Should writers write anything they want? Mohammad Badrul Ahsan Taslima Nasrin wrote a book, which got her banned from the country, and then she wrote another one to make it worse.   Opinion ‘Pak army attacked Joydevpur...’ Qauzi Abdur Raqib Iread with interest the article "Pak Army attacked Joydevpur on 19 March, 1971" written by Mr Nuruddin Mahmud Kamal, a Muktijoddha, published in your esteemed daily 25 March, 2004.     Advertisement