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Bangladesh sentences to death six 1971 war crimes accused

A special Bangladeshi tribunal today sentenced to death six hardline Islamists, including a former lawmaker, for committing crimes against humanity and siding with the Pakistani troops in carrying out the genocide in 1971. A three-judge panel of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) handed down the capital punishment to the six members of the Jamaat-e-Islami saying, …

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November 22, 2017

Countdown starts for Bangla Jamaat stalwart’s execution

The countdown for the execution of 1971 Bangladesh war crimes convict and fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami-linked business tycoon Mir Quasem Ali began as prison authorities on Wednesday conveyed to him the Supreme Court decision sealing his fate. "We received the copy of the verdict and read it out before him at 7.30 am today," Superintendent of suburban …

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August 31, 2016

The Internet’s bounty

Written by Nicholas Carr, an American journalist, and published in 2010, The Shallows was declared a New York Times bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. As the sub-title reveals, the book is about what the Internet is doing to our brains. Major US publications like Newsweek described it as “Grade …

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August 19, 2016