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Year: 2012
Cities hold key to Doha climate gateway
ICLEI press release Bonn, Germany: The UN Climate Change Summit ended in Doha last Saturday after negotiators agreed to the Doha Climate Gateway – a deal that extends the Kyoto Protocol for eight more years, introduces new principles on compensation…
Climate change and the unrestrained elite
George Monbiot Neoliberalism is not the root of the problem: it is the ideology used to justify a global grab of power, public assets and natural resources by an unrestrained elite. Humankind’s greatest crisis coincides with the rise of an…
Nepal’s first Green City
Bhrikuri Rai in Ilam Nepal’s easternmost district of Ilam is known for its diligent citizens and scenic tea gardens, but it is also showing the way about how towns can be cleaner and greener with community participation and competent leadership.…
Questions about Connecticut school shooting
Juan Cole I ask myself, “Why?” Why do US cable news networks intensively cover these mass shootings, making it the only story for a day or two and prying into every detail of them, when they aren’t interested in preventing…
Bring peace to Afghanistan
Mairead Maguire Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire Goes to Afghanistan to Join Afghan Peace Volunteers’ Demand for Cease Fire and Negotiation I have come here to give my support to the campaign for 2 million friends of the Afghan people. You…
Big, old trees decline impacts forest ecosystems
Big, old trees are in decline throughout the world, which spells trouble for the forests in which they play such an important role, a new study finds.
Microchip technology takes another leap forward
A new tiny silicon microchip has been developed by electrical engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) which can generate high-frequency electromagnetic waves capable of penetrating a host of materials without the ionizing damage of x-rays. The practical applications…
Rapid urbanisation pose challenges: Worldwatch
Washington, D.C.-The world’s urban population is expected to grow by 2.6 billion people between 2011 and 2050, bringing the total number of urbanites to 6.3 billion, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online…
UK’s 630MW wind energy site completed
ClickGreen staff/ENN Construction of the 125th and last turbine at the London Array Offshore Wind Farm has been completed, marking the end of major construction activities at the massive 630MW renewable energy site. Turbine installation began in January 2012 and…
Monitoring air pollutants up in Himalayas
Smriti Mallapaty The Himalayan countries of Nepal and Bhutan will, in 2013, have two permanent air monitoring observatories set up by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) as part of a programme to reduce black carbon and other…
The future of New York after sandy
Andy Soos, ENN It will take tens of billions of dollars to repair the damage of Superstorm Sandy. Will this be the norm of the future as climate changes and the sea level rises? If it is the new norm…
Egyptians vote in referendum on Constitution
bdnews24.com/Reuters Egyptians voted on Saturday December 15 on a constitution promoted by its Islamist backers as the way out of a prolonged political crisis and rejected by opponents as a recipe for further divisions in the Arab world’s biggest nation.…
Mandela recovering after gall stones removed
bdnews24.com/Reuters Nelson Mandela, the 94-year-old former South African president and Nobel Peace laureate hospitalised with a lung infection, has successfully undergone a procedure to have gall stones removed, the South African government said on Saturday December 15. “The former president…
Armsdrop story returns to haunt Gen Bhuiyan
bdnews24.com A Kolkata newspaper has resurrected the 1995 Purulia armsdrop controversy, implicating the leader of a Bangladesh freedom fighters’ team now there in the Victory Day celebrations of the Indian army. Retired Maj Gen Shubid Ali Bhuiyan is leading a…
Haze over murder during blockade
bdnews24.com The haze over how many people have been detained over the killing of Old Dhaka youth Biswajit Das refuses to recede as the government contradicts police. Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad echoed Home Minister MK Alamgir’s claim…
Don’t report Skype chat, ICT asks media
bdnews24.com The International Crimes Tribunal-II on Thursday barred the media from publishing or broadcasting anything related to reported conversation between former Chairman of the first tribunal and a Brussels-based legal expert. The order came at the first sitting of the…
HC show cause Amar Desh
bdnews24.com A High Court bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday sought explanations why orders will not be issued to detain and try those behind the publication of an alleged conversation between a former ICT judge and an expatriate legal…
Khaleda wants businesses to break silence
bdnews24.com The leader of the opposition Begum Khaleda Zia on Thursday responded to the call of the businesses to shun shutdowns by asking them to join the anti-government movement instead. The BNP Chairperson said this at the closing ceremony of…
Priyanka named World’s Sexiest Asian Woman
Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra has won the ‘Worlds Sexiest Asian Woman’ crown, according to an on-line survey conducted by a weekly magazine. Priyanka, 30, defeated reigning champion Kareena Kapoor and three-times winner Katrina Kaif to claim the crown of sexiest…
Britney top female music earner in 2012
Pop star Britney Spears edged past Taylor Swift to claim the title of top-earning woman in music after bringing in an estimated $58 million from her album, endorsements and a perfume in the past year. Forbes said on Wednesday, gulfnews.com…
No strike before 26th: BNP
BNP Standing Committee Member Tariqul Islam said on Thursday that the BNP-led 18-Party Alliance was unlikely to announce any fresh agitation until Dec 26 to allow for peaceful observance of the Victory Day programmes. ”The Victory Day programmes will begin…
Police show 4 arrested over Biswajit’s murder
Police on Thursday informed a Dhaka court that they had arrested four suspects allegedly involved in the murder of Biswajit Das. But Home Minister M K Alamgir insisted that 11 arrests have been made in this connection so far. The…
Extra fee issue: 3 principals face music
The government on Wednesday temporarily suspended the Monthly Pay Order (MPO) of the principals of three better known non-government schools and colleges of Dhaka for not returning the additional admission fees they charged this year.
Justice Nizam resigns as ICT chair
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.
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
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