The first street concert by a woman in recent memory is performed in Kabul. The Taliban banned women from playing music or appearing in public with their faces visible when in power from 1996 to 2001.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) sends letters to nine different government authorities seeking information on the “irregularities and corruption” in Banani’s FR Tower which caught fire on last Thursday.

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on April 4, 2019

NASA has made it clear they want astronauts back on the Moon in 2024, and now, they are zeroing in on the Red Planet -- the US space agency confirms that it wants humans to reach Mars by 2033.

Beauty might only be skin deep, but for those wondering how to keep that skin young, scientists may have found an answer in the form of a protein that encourages cell competition.

South Korea launches the world's first nationwide 5G mobile networks two days early, its top mobile carriers says, in a late-night scramble to be the first providers of the super-fast wireless technology.

An engineer of Maddhapara Granite Mining Company Ltd has been found dead at his residence in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur.

India’s Congress party President Rahul Gandhi files his nomination papers from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala for the coming national elections.

Experts have stressed the need for strengthening regional cooperation to protect vultures from extinction in South Asia.

Green Line Paribahan cannot sell tickets on April 11 if it does not pay Tk 50 lakh compensation to Russel Sharker by April 10, as High Court passes the order.

From its clubhouses in Melbourne and Sydney, the Lads Society promotes drug-free living and exercise, as well as "white resistance" and Islamophobia, according to online statements and interviews with two of its leaders.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh will keep up its efforts to repatriate displaced Rohingyas through negotiations and not engaging in any conflict with Myanmar.

Australia will fine social media companies up to 10 percent of their annual global turnover and imprison executives for up to three years if violent content is not removed "expeditiously" under a new law passed by the country's parliament.

Bangladesh is among the five fastest growing economies in the world, World Bank says. The outlook was reflected in a new World Bank report titled ‘The Bangladesh Development Update April 2019: Towards Regulatory Predictability’.

UNDP has approves US $10 million fund for the development of Bangladesh’s vulnerable communities of small islands and charlands islands.

The pilots of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX plane that crashed last month initially took the emergency steps outlined by the manufacturer but still could not regain control, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Popular messaging platform WhatsApp said it has rolled out a new privacy setting which will allow a user in India to choose whether or not to join a group conversation.

Biopsy is currently the most accurate means of diagnosing cancer. But, as Daniel F Hayes MD – senior author of the paper, published in Nature Communications – explains, "nobody wants to have a biopsy."

It never occurred to Lini Zurlia that she would become the subject of a controversy surrounding golput (voting abstention) on social media. A photo she posted late last month, depicting her holding up a sticker saying “Saya Golput”, was originally intended as harmless self-expression.

The third day of jute mill workers’ countrywide strike ended up in a clash in Khulna resulting in injuries to at least 16 including policemen.