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Editorial
 
Editorial
Right to Information
A strong safeguard against corruption, misgovernance
Fulfillment of the people's right to information is now universally recognised as a precondition for not only ensuring good governance but also eliminating corruption and anomalies that are inextricably linked to official secrecy.
 
Editorial
Pull back from a retrograde step
Duty proposals on computer, telecommunication need to be dropped
It is ironical that two mutually contrary, if not contradictory, patterns of emphases should have found place in the finance and planning adviser's budgetary proposals relating to information and communication technology (ICT).

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Strategically Speaking
The reform-wave and the crisis for the leaders
Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd)
While it is not uncommon for nations to suffer occasionally from crisis of leadership, and we have had a fair share of it too, what we are seeing at present, in the midst of all the turmoil and political turbulence is a crisis for the leaders, particularly for the chiefs of the two major parties.
 
Chronicle
Coal policy and energy security
Nururddin Mahmud Kamal
Natural forces in previous geological eras determined the distribution of energy resources in the earth's crust. Men, however, make the decision to mine the resources they discover.
 
Between The Lines
Will Bangladesh go Pakistan way?
Kuldip Nayar writes from New Delhi
Nobody hides it. Everyone at Dhaka assumes that you know about the army's presence behind the caretaker government. Chief Advisor Iftekhar Ahmed himself tells you about it.
 

 
   
 
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