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BTTB Reform – A Magic Spell

Moshahida Sultana Ritu

Silence! Another magic spell in Fakhruddin’s basket. Land phone subscribers are happy. They used to pay Tk 1.5 per five minutes before. Now they have to pay only Tk 0.15 per minute. It is a magic. Let us check why some people are so happy when some people are so powerlessly lost in the magic spell.

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The State of Governance in Bangladesh 2007

Sanjan Haque

In 2007, the confrontational politics traditionally followed by the leading political parties, the constant need to secure power by means of politicization of state institutions, continuous corruption within the public sector and weak mechanisms of accountability, led to a political impasse which almost brought the country to the brink of civil war. The chain of events that led to ‘1/11’ and the imposition of the State of Emergency by the President, exemplified the state of governance in Bangladesh.

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