The government is filling over 36,000 vacant posts at various ministries to bring back dynamism in public services, says State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain.

The world's fattest parrot, the critically endangered kakapo, has enjoyed a record-breaking breeding season, New Zealand scientists say, with climate change possibly aiding the species' unique mating spree.

The roof of a church collapsed during mass near the eastern South African city of Durban, killing 13 people and injuring at least 16, officials say.

Dear readers, here are the news headlines so far on Friday, April 19, 2019.

Russia’s foreign ministry has dismissed the findings of the long-awaited report by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller and said it had failed to present any evidence of Russian meddling in US elections, Russian news agencies report.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina receives treatment at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital in Dhaka city's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.

India’s Election Commission (EC) seeks a report from the West Bengal chief electoral officer on a Bangla feature film stated to be a “biopic on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee” after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) sought a ban on commercial release of the film in the midst of the country’s parliamentary elections.

India clamps an indefinite suspension of trade on two routes along the de facto border with Pakistan in terror-hit Jammu and Kashmir state.

Two people including a constable of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) are arrested with 990 yaba tablets from Savar, on the outskirts area of capital Dhaka.

Bangladesh makes six recommendations for an effective multilateral trading system for sustainable development.

A woman is shot dead during riots in the city of Londonderry in Northern Ireland and the killing is being treated as a terrorist incident, police say, following the latest upsurge in violence to shake the troubled region.

A father rescued his son from a dingo's jaws after the infant was dragged from a campervan at an Australian tourist island, authorities say, in the third such attack this year.

Three world-renowned professional mountaineers -- two Austrians and an American -- were missing and presumed dead after an avalanche on a western Canadian summit, the country's national parks agency says.

US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania will be the first foreign state guests to visit Japan and meet with Crown Prince Naruhito after his elevation to emperor, the White House says.

Mali’s prime minister and his whole government resign four weeks after a massacre of some 160 Fulani herders by an ethnic vigilante group shocked the nation.

Two persons are killed in separate incidents of “gunfight” in Gazipur and Bogura.

Bangladesh’s Deputy High Commission in West Bengal asks another Bangladeshi actor, Gazi Abdun Noor, to leave India over his involvement in the election campaign of TMC (Trinamool Congress).

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on April 18, 2019

The condition of veteran singer and composer Subir Nandi, who has been on life support at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) following a cardiac arrest, remains unchanged.

Advance train tickets for upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr for travelling from Dhaka will be available at six spots -- five in the capital and one in Gazipur, says Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan.