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    Reaching new heights  Laying claim to being the tallest in a particular category has always had a certain allure for architects, whether they're building skyscraper-style hotels such as Dubai's Burj Khalifa or landmarks like Seattle's Space Needle. The Al Noor Tower, designed by French firm Valode & Pistre, will be the tallest building in Africa once it's been completed — these artistic renderings from the Paris-based Iceberg design studio give you an idea of how it's going to look when it's finished at some point in 2018. The development companies involved have announced that ground will be broken on the project in June 2015, with the structure costing around $1 billion (£640 million) to build.

Dhaka Central Jail will be shifted to Keraniganj from Lalbagh by June next while nine acres land of the existing prison will be utilized for construction of a park with opening of two museums in central jail for public. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said this while inaugurating 'Kara Saptaha-2014' (prison week-2014) at Kashimpur Prison Campus Parade Field here today. Sheikh Hasina said her government is running the jail administration with the principle - 'Hate the Sin not the Sinner'. So the government is implementing massive programmes for improvement of jail atmosphere. In the ancient age, she said, the concept of prison came to award punishment to the offenders. But, in the civilized world the prisons are used as centres of correction and rehabilitation. Congratulating the prison ...

  Former state minister Syed Mohammad Qaisar was sentenced to death on seven charges of killing and rape during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. 14 out of 16 charges proved Death penalty on 7 charges Jail until death on 4 charges 10, 7 and 5 years’ imprisonment for three other charges The 73-year-old has also been awarded jail until death on four charges while different terms of imprisonment on three other charges. However, he was acquitted of two charges. While reading out the summery of the 484-page verdict, Chairman of International Crimes Tribunal-2 Justice Obaidul Hassan said, “Wrongdoers deserve appropriate punishment.” An alleged local leader of anti-liberation forces Razakar and Peace Committee, Qaisar was founder of Qaisar Bahini, which had 400-500 collabora...

  Five dead bodies, including those of two females, were found on the railway tracks through Dhaka and Gazipur within a span of 24 hours until this noon. Bangladesh railway police and Dhaka police confirmed the news but could not ascertain their identity, reports our district correspondent and Bangla daily Prothom Alo. A male, around 35 years of age, was found on the rail tracks in Ahaki area of Kaliakoir upazila, Gazipur yesterday noon, reports our Gazipur correspondent quoting Dadan Mia, an assistant sub-inspector of Joydebpur Railway Police Station. “He might have fallen from a train and crushed under its wheels,” he said. The body of a female was found from Malibagh rail crossing around 8:30pm last night. Hours afterwards, a man was found dead at Jowarshara crossing, said A...

Penang Immigration has rounded up 55 foreigners including 12 Bangladeshis in Bukit Mertajam of Malaysia on charge of working there without work permit and for overstay, the Malaysian daily The Star reported. The other workers are from Myanmar and one from Nepal, Penang Immigration sources said. During a two-hour operation codenamed Ops Bersepadu started at 10:00pm (local time) on Friday, the workers were arrested from Bukit Mertajam Fish Wholesalers Association’s market in Jalan Padang Lalang. Eighty-one personnel from the department and Seberang Prai Municipal Council took part in the operation. “Some of the workers tried to escape by hiding inside the boxes in trucks but failed. Two were caught inside a water tank,” an immigration official said, adding that the illegal workers had ...

A Habiganj court today issued arrest warrant against 11 people including Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury and BNP leader Harris Chowdhury in former finance minister SAMS Kibria murder case. After receiving the supplementary charge sheet from Criminal Investigation Department, Senior Judicial Magistrate Rashid Ahmed Milon passed the order. The court came up with the order after CID Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Meherunnesa Parul, investigation officer of the case, filed a petition seeking arrest warrant for the accused. On November 12, the CID submitted the supplementary charge-sheet against 35 people, including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s political secretary Harris and Sylhet Mayor Ariful Haque, ...

  The main reason I began to cycle around London years ago was to save myself some cash. I was a student and just getting myself to Central to go to lectures and back was costing me more than a fiver every day. So I dragged out the bike of my teenage years, raised the seat and set about learning how to safely cycle the busy roads and navigate the confusing one-way systems of my city. And I caught the cycling bug. Over the next few years, I went through three bikes – but made substantial travel savings. The Old Bike Knocking Around In The Shed Though very basic, my first bike saw me through my first year of cycling around London. It cost me nothing, though I did invest in a helmet, decent lock and hi-viz jacket at around £70 for the lot. But after this initial cost, cycling sa...

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  The situation of governance and economy of the country is now “abnormal”, said Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain, urging for a constructive national dialogue to overcome the condition. “To institutionalise democracy, we need better education and the environment of the educational institutions ….. it is very much absent there,” he said. Dr Kamal, also an eminent jurist, was addressing a programme on releasing a study on The State of Governance Bangladesh 2013: Democracy Party Politics organised by the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development of BRAC University today. He said no elections were held in the student unions of the universities. Regular elections in the universities and good environment for education provide formation for the future leaders to be democratic, ...

Abdullah Mamun: Mobile operators said they will be able to let users switch from one operator to another without changing their numbers within two to three years. Bangladesh Telecommu-nication Regulatory Commi-ssion is now taking opinions of stakeholders, including subscribers and operators, to introduce the service -- mobile number portability (MNP). More than 70 countries have MNP, which increases competition among operators in terms of service quality, said Md Sarwar Alam, BTRC secretary and spokesperson. The process of taking the opinions on whether the service would be viable for Bangladesh, when it should be introduced and how it will benefit users started a month ago and will run till tomorrow, he said. TIM Nurul Kabir, secretary general of Association of Mobile Telecom Oper...