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Editorial
 
Editorial
Flaws in fertiliser distribution glaring
Nachole incident rings with lessons to heed
The violent outbursts of farmers on the heels of an incident centring around collection of fertiliser quota slips from Nachole upazila office has brought to the fore the issue of chronic mismanagement in the distribution of the important input to the agriculturists.
 
Editorial
The release of Alan Johnston
Journalists can beat terror by defying it
The release of the BBC journalist Alan Johnston after 114 days of captivity at the hands of his abductors has caused relief everywhere.

Post Editorial
 
Straight Talk
Three down, one to go
Zafar Sobhan
The recent contretemps in the JP, with party founder and long-time chief Hussein Muhammad Ershad calling it quits after 25 years in the political arena and leaving his estranged wife Rawshan Ershad and his hand-picked successor Anisul Islam Mahmud to duke it out over the party leadership, indicated clearly that it is not only the AL and BNP that the current powers-that-be have their sights trained on.
 
Cross Talk
An amusing Ayub
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
Saul Bellow writes in Ravelstein that it was odd how mankind's benefactors should be amusing people. Then he said that anyone who wanted to govern the country had to entertain it.
 
Straight Line
Speed is the need
Muhammad Nurul Huda
The subject of police reforms has attracted large-scale media attention, and is believed to be one aspect of the regulatory administration in which the chief executive has evinced considerable interest.
 

 
   
 
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