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Editorial
 
Editorial
Strengthening local government
Key to development & good governance
We note with satisfaction that the chief adviser (CA) of the caretaker government has asked an expert committee to put forward recommendations for recasting the country's local government institutions so that they may serve the people at the grassroots level better.
 
Editorial
Unauthorised recruitment
University authorities can't flout rules
Twelve public universities in the country have appointed 2,000 teachers and employees without due approval from the University Grants Commission (UGC), which means an annual financial burden of Tk 16 crore on the universities.

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Strategically Speaking
Corruption -- is it a systemic or human failure?
Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd)
Anatomy of corruption is an enigma, or is it? Why is it that after having topped the list of the most corrupt (government I hasten to add, not the country Bangladesh) we have, until very recently, done nothing worthy of note to arrest its endemic influence.
 
As I See It
Coping with the backlash
Ikram Sehgal writes from Karachi
After the cordoning of Lal Masjid on July 3, intercepted messages confirmed information about a likely strike in Swat to seize control of the mountainous region in and around Kanju, a fairly recently built satellite town of Mingora housing the offices of many foreign NGOs, and Matta, a small town 15 or so miles north of Mingora and west of the Swat River.
 
Closeup Japan
Film festival focuses on plight of refugees
Monzurul Huq writes from Tokyo
The world is witnessing a disturbing trend of people being uprooted from their homes and forced to flee for fear of their lives.
 

 
   
 
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