A lethal finish from Luis Suarez gave Barcelona a 2-1 victory over Real Madrid in a typically frantic ‘Clasico’ on Sunday as they stretched their lead over their rivals at the top of La Liga to four points. While the personal battle between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo captured the attention before the game, it was Uruguayan Suarez who settled ...

Police arrest Farid Uddin, husband of Rumena Akter, for his alleged involvement with the incident A woman and her two children have been found dead in Boro Bakoi area under Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj. The deceased are Rumena Akter, 30, her son Musa Miah, 6, and daughter Muslima Akter. Police arrested Farid Uddin, husband of Rumena Akter, for his alleged ...

A third man has confessed to the abduction and murder of a Sylhet school student, police say. Ataur Rahman alias Geda is to be a police informer. He issued a confessional statement at the Sylhet Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s court on Sunday, investigation officer Sub-Inspector Azim Patwari said. Nine-year-old Abu Sayeed, a fourth-grader at Shah Meer Government Primary School, was abducted ...

Police recovered the bodies of a businessman and a housewife from separate parts of the city on Saturday noon. The deceased were identified as Ataur Rahman Shahjahan, 37, a business man of Shibbazar in city. He was the son of late Salamat Ullah of Hatkhola union under Jalalabad Thana,  and Sonia, 17, a housewife and daughter of Rajab Ali of ...

A court here on Thursday placed Geda Miah, a Rab informant, on a fresh three-day remand in schoolboy Syeed murder case. Sylhet Chief Metropolitan Magistrate ABM Jahirul Goni Chowdhury passed the order when police produced him before the court upon completion of his three-day remand in the case, seeking seven-day remand for him. On March 16, Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Court- ...

Police arrested an activist of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on early Thursday from Dargha Mahalla in the city. The arrestee was identified as Muhibul Haque Shahin, residence of Paira-11 in Dargha Mahalla in city, who hailed from Shibbazar area under Jalalabad Thana.

The European Space Agency’s Proba satellite caught this view of the eclipse Millions of people in the UK and northern Europe have glimpsed the best solar eclipse in years.A great swathe of the Earth’s surface was plunged into darkness as the Moon came between us and the Sun.From an aeroplane above the Faroe Islands, a BBC camera captured startling footage ...

Bangladesh ended their most successful World Cup campaign so far, finally going down to India by 109 runs in the second quarter-final on Thursday.Chasing a huge 303 to win, the Tigers crumbled under pressure to lose wickets at regular intervals and folded up for 193 in 45 overs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.After Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss India ...

Glyn Robbins (TUSC election candidate for Bethnal Green and Bow) met residents of a Spitalfields estate fighting demolition of their homes.  The Bernard, Brune and Carter (BBC blocks) and others comprising the Holland Estate off Toynbee Street were transferred from Tower Hamlets Council to East End Homes (EEH) in 2006.  Residents were promised works to improve the whole estate.  Now ...

Prominent journalist and Banglanews24 London representative Syed Anas Pasha’s mother Najma Khanom passed away (Inna … Rajiun).  She was 74 when died.  She has been suffering from cardiac and age related illnesses.  She died on 13th March at Bangladesh time 11.30 pm at her Baghbari residence in Sylhet.  She left her three sons, six daughters and numerous numbers of well-wishers.Hearing ...