The War Crimes Tribunal-1 Chairman Justice Mohammed Nizamul Huq resigned on Tuesday in the wake of a controversy over his reported Skype conversation with an expatriate war crimes expert.
Day: December 12, 2012
ICT ‘has some explaining to do’
London: ON 6th DECEMBER 2012 the presiding judge of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal, Mohammed Nizamul Huq, passed an order requiring two members of The Economist to appear before the court, demanding that they explain how we have come by e-mails…
High US tariff blamed for poor garment safety
Agency An opinion article in the New York Times has blamed the poor safety conditions in Bangladesh garment factories to high American import duties that forces contractors to “scrimp on labour standards to stay competitive”.
Druggists protest licence fee hike
Drug sellers across Bangladesh on Wednesday shut down their business to protest a hike in their license fee. They say the shutdown is for a day to press for revoking the hike.
Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar dead
bdnews24.com/Reuters Los Angeles — Sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died near his home in Southern California on Tuesday, December 11 his family said. He was…
2.4b people using the Internet
banglanews24.com If a maven is, as Wikipedia maintains, “a trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass knowledge on to others”, then Mary Meeker is definitely a maven.
Prehistoric lizard named Obamadon
Reuters Researchers have named a newly discovered, prehistoric lizard “Obamadon gracilis” in honour of the 44th president’s toothy grin.
SSC exams from Feb 3
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations will start from Feb 3 next year.
Govt guideline for school admission
Agencies The government on in late November issued the guideline for admission to government high schools, making admission to grade one through lottery mandatory.