Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines on April 6, 2019

Rubana Huq, managing director of Mohammadi Group, is going to be the first female president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) as her panel won all 35 posts of directors in the biennial election of the trade body.

Shab-e-Barat, the holy night of fortune and forgiveness, will be observed on the night of April 21 as the Sha'ban moon was not sighted in Bangladesh sky today.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra became the latest member of India's storied Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to enter politics in January, but the boost she brings the opposition campaign may not turn the tide against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, polls show.

A kitten gets stuck inside a hole of a footpath slab in Shahjadpur area of Gulshan in Dhaka.

Law Minister Anisul Huq calls upon the country’s mainstream media houses to come forward for fighting ‘fake news,’ saying the government cannot do the job alone successfully.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says that the government would consider if BNP’s imprisoned Chairperson Khaleda Zia submits a prayer formally seeking her release from jail on parole.

A third-grader schoolgirl is killed and 10 others injured as a portion of their school’s ceiling collapsed on them in Barguna’s Taltali upazila.

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on April 6, 2019

For twenty years, the country's leading English daily, The Daily Star, has been honouring students who secured outstanding grades in O and A Level examinations.

It was the unbridled greed of the building owners, developer and Rajuk officials that led to FR Tower fire tragedy which claimed the lives of 26 people, says the public works minister at a meet-the-press in the capital.

A female examinee of Alim examination is set on fire inside the exam centre at Feni’s Sonagazi upazila.

Noted comedian and film actor Abdus Samad, popularly known as Tele Samad, passes away at Square Hospitals in Dhaka. He was 74.

Declaring “our country is full,” President Donald Trump insists the US immigration system was overburdened and illegal crossings must be stopped as he inspected a refurbished section of fencing at the Mexican border.

Every year in the spring, hundreds of aspiring Everest climbers from all over the world arrive in Nepal, hoping to conquer the mountain.

Protesters block the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway for around two hours after two school students were injured when a bus hit them.

A member of Village Defence Party (VDP) is shot dead in Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria district. Bhanu Lal Chandra, 35, hailing from Talshahar village, was shot by unknown miscreants around 9:30am on Talshahar-Bahadurpur regional road, Officer-in-charge of Ashuganj Police Station Masud Alam.

The full picture of what happened in the cockpit of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Flight 302 on March 10 is emerging from the sparse commentary of a preliminary report and especially a newly released data plot showing how crew and technology interacted.

An Indonesian hostage held by Muslim militants in the southern Philippines swam his way to freedom but another drowned while a Malaysian was shot in the back while escaping, officials said Saturday.

Chronic exposure to higher arsenic concentration through drinking water may cause more deaths in young adults in a number of different diseases, says a new study.