Pledge Harbour International School in Dhaka recently includes the reading of The Daily Star newspaper in its curriculum for the students.

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US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who oversaw President Donald Trump's bitterly contested immigration policies during her tumultuous 16-month tenure, resigns amid a surge in the number of migrants at the border with Mexico.

Firefighter Sohel Rana, who sustained serious injuries during FR Tower fire rescue operation, dies at a hospital in Singapore.

Renowned film actor and comedian Tele Samad has been laid to eternal rest at his village home in Sadar upazila.

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on April 7, 2019

At least six persons are injured during a turf war in Dhaka’s Dakshin Khan. In an apparent act of revenge and motivated form establishing supremacy, some 100 people of South Chalabon attacked Hajipara locals.

The Supreme Court directs the government to immediately stop acquisition of land at the hills and hillocks of Jhilongja Mouja in Cox’s Bazar for a residential project for officials and staff of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB).

A parliamentary body recommends to relax the security checking for MPs and other VIPs at the country’s airports and make separate security checking queue for them.

Telecom operators blame power outages in the aftermath of severe weather conditions for the disruption in mobile network across the country.

ICC Communications, a private internet service provider, launches Bangladesh’s first ever 100Mbps internet network along with internet telephony connection and internet TV.

Nagarkrishi, a startup, is awarded for the category of Best Agricultural Business Entity for 2018 by Teer-Prothom Alo.

A local court sends a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver to jail in connection with rape of a third-grader in Senbagh upazila of Noakhali.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls upon the international community, including the United Kingdom (UK), to keep up mounting pressure on Myanmar to take back the forcibly displaced Rohingyas.

Three students of Dhaka University are arrested and placed on two-day remand each for their alleged involvement in extorting money by leaking fake questions to examinees.

Heavily armed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) troopers are deployed at St Martin’s Island for ensuring overall security of the Island.

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih’s party is heading for a historic landslide victory in parliamentary elections, provisional results show, a move that will help him to investigate the scale of debts to China.

The High Court orders police to issue a red alert through the Interpol to arrest a businessman who was sentenced to life imprisonment in a corruption case.

Suffering from serious physical ailments, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad donates his all movable and immovable properties to a trust.

Four more accused in a case filed over the gang-rape of a mother of six in Noakhali’s Subarnachar upazila are placed on remand.