New York Times Founded in 1851 and has since been continuously
been published USA Has an international version called the
International Herald Tribune Won various international awards/
great international coverage (112 Pulitzer prizes) 3 rd largest
newspaper (after USA Today and The Wall Street Journal
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Dawn News Founded by M.A. Jinnah in 1942 Pakistans oldest and
most widely read English Newspaper
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Fonts Dawn NewsNew York Times Use normal Times New Roman (TNR)
fonts TNR fonts, sometimes headings/subheadings italicized
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Front page Layout Dawn NewsNew York Times There are
advertisements flanking the two sides of the Mast Head. No
advertisements are present on the sides of Mast Head The layout is
different in the organization of pictures/news columns More story
pictures
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Language Dawn NewsNew York Times English is the medium of
communication though sometimes Urdu words are given in inverted
commas to elucidate concepts. Relatively simple language used
English is the medium of communication. It is grammatically more
complex than the counterpart and uses a wider vocabulary
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List of Contents Dawn NewsNew York Times Usually a list of
contents within the paper is given at the bottom corners of the
frontpage (in boxes) List of contents is not given on the bottom
corners of the front page.
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Type of News Dawn NewsNew York Times Usually hard news is given
related to economy or politics on the front page Front page
sometimes contains news relating to sports and entertainment in
addition to hard news
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Structural Organization Dawn News New York Times (3 sections)
Front page (highlights) Pg2-5 (National) Pg 6-7 Editorial Pg 8.
Adverts Pg 9-11 business Pg 12-14 international Metropolitan
(separate section for local city news, sports and entertainment)
News: Includes International, National, Washington, Business,
Technology, Science, Health, Sports, The Metro Section, Education,
Weather, and Obituaries.WashingtonMetro Opinion: Includes
Editorials, Op- Eds and Letters to the Editor.EditorialsOp-
EdsLetters to the Editor Features: Includes Arts, Movies, Theater,
Travel, NYC Guide, Dining & Wine, Home & Garden, Fashion
& Style,
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152 Bangladeshi Border Guards Get Death Penalty Over Revolt
DHAKA, Bangladesh In an apparently unprecedented ruling, 152 former
members of the Bangladesh Rifles, a paramilitary border security
force, were sentenced to death on Tuesday in connection with a
bloody 2009 mutiny in which several thousand troops took control of
their headquarters, demanding better working conditions, and killed
scores of people.bloody 2009 mutiny Some of the border guards broke
down in tears after hearing their sentence, pronounced by Judge
Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman in a crowded Dhaka courtroom under heavy
security, and others shouted at the judge, saying the verdict was
unfair. Allah will deliver justice of this injustice, they said.
Judge Akhtaruzzaman said the testimony of some witnesses who
described the blood bath was hair-raising. The slain people were
not merely killed, he said. The dead bodies did not get the respect
they deserve according to the law. The mutiny began suddenly, at an
annual conference of the border force, as a number of guards took
their commanders, officers of the Bangladeshi Army, hostage. As
soldiers massed around the building, the border guards announced a
list of demands, among them better pay, permission to participate
in lucrative United Nations peacekeeping missions, and changes in
the forces command and control structure. The revolt sprang from
the border guards longstanding jealousy of regular army troops, who
had better quarters and pay. After the mutiny, the force, which
guards the 2,500-mile border with India and Myanmar, was renamed
the Border Guard Bangladesh. The revolt collapsed 33 hours later,
after army tanks surrounded the border guards headquarters in the
heart of this crowded capital. As the uprising ended, many border
guards reportedly shed their uniforms and fled the site, while
security forces combed the area for fugitives.collapsed Police
officers entering the building found a mass grave containing the
bodies of officers in combat fatigues who had been seized as
hostages. Seventy-four people were killed in the uprising,
including 57 top-ranking and midranking army officers. The rest
were civilians. The mutiny posed a stark test for the countrys
leadership, elected after two years of army- backed emergency rule.
Rights advocates said they could not recall a time when so many
defendants were sentenced to the death penalty in one single court
proceeding. They were particularly struck by both the severity and
the scope of the punishment in a country that has an established
legal system and is not in a state of war. Its possible that theres
some civil war situation where this might have happened, but theres
nobody whos thought of it, said Brad Adams, the executive director
of Human Rights Watchs Asia division. We cant think of anything
like it. Prosecutors originally brought charges against 850 people
827 men serving in the Bangladesh Rifles and 23 civilians but 277
were acquitted on Tuesday in the mass trial, which began in August
2011. Of those convicted, 256 were given sentences of 20 years or
less and 161, including Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, a former opposition
member of Parliament, were sentenced to life in prison. Four of the
accused died during the course of the trial. Defense lawyers said
they would appeal, but relatives of the commanders killed applauded
the sentences. We cant be satisfied until the verdict is
implemented, said Nehreen Ferdousi, the widow of one slain officer,
Col. Mujibul Huq. Bangladesh has been one of the least frequent
users of the death penalty in countries that still have capital
punishment, according to Amnesty International. If all the
defendants sentenced to death on Tuesday are executed, Bangladesh
would rocket to third place in Amnestys annual ranking of death
penalty countries, surpassing Iraq, but still below Iran and China.
Julfikar Ali Manik reported from Dhaka, and Ellen Barry from New
Delhi. Rick Gladstone contributed reporting from New York.
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Bangladesh court sentences 152 to death for 2009 mutiny A court
in Dhaka awarded death to 152 including Bangladesh Rifles (BDR)
deputy assistant director Towhidul Islam and life-term to 160
including former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu and ward-level
Awami League leader Torab Ali for their role in the February 2009
carnage at then BDR headquarters. Earlier this morning, 813 people
detained in the mutiny case were produced before the makeshift
court at Bakshibazar in the capital. Besides, the 10 more accused
who are on bail also appeared before the Court of Third Additional
Metropolitan Sessions Judges, Dhaka. Three others accused Zohora
Khatun, Abdus Salam and Runa Akhtar Bithi who had also granted bail
in the case could not appear before the court due to the ongoing
60-hour strike of the BNP-led 18-party opposition combine. Several
contingents of security men guarded the detained accused including
BNP leader Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu to the court around 10:00 in the
morning. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman started reading out the verdict
around 12:30pm. Security has been beefed up on the court premises
and its adjacent areas following the pronouncement of the verdict.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Aziz
Ahmed and nearly 20 persons from the victim army officials family
came to the court to attend todays trial. In the February 2009
mutiny, 74 people including 57 top and mid-ranking army officers
were killed by the rebel BDR personnel. The border guard members
also looted arms and ammunition from armouries during the 33- hour
bloodbath at the Pilkhana headquarters of the erstwhile BDR (now
Border Guard Bangladesh, BGB,) on February 25-26. The killers later
dumped the victims bodies in sewers and shallow graves, looted
officers houses and held their family members hostage at gunpoint.
A total of 850 people including 823 BDR jawans and 23 civilians
were accused in the case. Among the accused are BNP leader Pintu,
city ward unit Awami League leader Torab Ali and the then BDR
deputy assistant director Mohammad Towhidul Islam. Of the accused,
813 are detained, 13 are on bail, 20 are on the run while four have
died in custody. Earlier, the verdict was scheduled to be delivered
on October 30. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman deferred the date today for
delivery of the verdict as he required some more time to prepare
the judgement after reading around 10,000 pages containing
depositions of 654 witnesses and their cross-examinations. By
arrangment with the The Daily Star/ANN
