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Editorial
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Editorial
Providing relief in flood-hit regions
Government should make it an all-inclusive effort
The worsening state of floods in the country clearly calls for an intensification of relief efforts. While the government machinery has been trying to handle the situation, it is fairly obvious that the involvement of the wider community has now become necessary in order for succour to reach as many people as possible in the flood-hit areas.
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Editorial
Listen to voice of business leaders
Yielding to IMF pressure bodes ill for economy
Twelve top businessmen while waxing critical of 'undesirable interference' of the international financing agencies, especially the IMF, in Bangladesh's economic policy-making arena, have counselled the government not to succumb to any diktat.
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Post Editorial
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Straight Talk
Unintended consequences
Zafar Sobhan
I am not sure that I entirely follow the logic of the so-called "minus two" plan to remove Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina from the political arena.
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Cross Talk
A suicide by train
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
Nine members of a family, stitched together by their death wish, hurled themselves under a speeding train and died like a ripped quilt.
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