Category Archives: Technology

Software Design Contest

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 3, 2012

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Drik ICT initiates software design contest. Students of Bangladesh! Challenge Yourself to Change the World There are many challenges faced by our world today and even in your local communities. But did you ever imagine that you … Continue reading →

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The Great Hiroshima Cover-up

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 7, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Greg Mitchell The Nation In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan sixty-six years ago this week, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and … Continue reading →

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ConocoPhillips Oil Spill

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 16, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews As government faces increasing criticism over its controversial deal with ConnocoPhillips and pressure mounts to force the government to reveal the contract, an oil spill in China lends weight to the protesters claims that the company has … Continue reading →

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The World’s Largest Image: 50 Billion Pixels

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 16, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews The world’s largest image shows a 360 degree view of Vienna. Taken by photographer Julian Kalmar in July of this year and assembled from 3600 shots, the image would need 25,000 television sets to be viewed in … Continue reading →

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The Burka Ban – 1

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 1, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Europe’s Open-face Democracy By Rahnuma Ahmed France bans full-face veils in public. Women wearing the niqab cannot enter government buildings, public transport, streets and markets. Burkas are not “welcome” on French soil, says Sarkozy. It is a … Continue reading →

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His Life

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 13, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Gita L. Vygodskaya Translated from the Russian language by Ilya Gindis Published in School Psychology International, Vol.16 Nobody in our family studied or took up religion. I only knew from the nanny, who took care of … Continue reading →

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THE POLITICS OF WEATHER: LOCAL AND GLOBAL

by Shahidul Alam Posted on April 1, 2010

`Owning’ the weather? PART IX By Rahnuma Ahmed Does something lie behind the global warming agenda, behind the UN Summit at Copenhagen where world leaders had met to agree on how to tackle global climate change? Has weather warfare, as Michel … Continue reading →

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THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WARMING

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 30, 2010

`Owning’ the weather? PART VIII By Rahnuma Ahmed Ten years from now, no, five years from now, you’ll feel ashamed for having written this. Definitely. He hung up. This was last Monday, the day `Global Warming, Or The Greatest Scientific … Continue reading →

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GLOBAL WARMING OR, THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC FRAUD?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 15, 2010

`Owning’ the weather? PART VII By Rahnuma Ahmed The theory of global warming, a `theory’ which we know to be `real,’ according to which the temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and that of its oceans has been rising since … Continue reading →

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