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Editorial
 
Stopping 'nomination business'
EC's new proposal has meat in it
Coming on top of earlier moves toward political reforms, the new proposal regarding nomination of parliamentary candidates advanced by the Election Commission certainly calls for objective study.
 
Chittagong hillslide
Skeletons in the cupboard revealing
The Chittagong mudslide, which claimed 123 lives, has brought to the fore a host of issues relating to environmental degradation, especially razing of hills in the port city.

Post Editorial
 
Sense & Insensibility
Sorry tale of hill cutting and water logging
Shahnoor Wahid
The people who died in the mudslide at the foot of some decapitated hills in Chittagong were not close relations or friends of any politician or bureaucrat or CIP (Commercially Important Person).
 
Our politics without the top two
A.J.M. Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan
Many newspaper reports are suggesting that there has been a move to free our politics from the two top leaders -- Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia.
 
The plight of rickshaw pullers
Ziaur Rahman
I had been contemplating writing about the plight of the rickshaw pullers of Bangladesh. Two recent issues have made me share my views in this regard.
 

 
   
 
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