A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 77 people in Ecuador, Vice-President Jorge Glas says.A state of emergency is declared in six provinces and the National Guard is mobilised.

Shafik Rehman became a household name after he launched the weekly Jai Jai Din in the mid-1980s.

The video of a toddler trying to defend his grandmother from the Chinese authorities has divided the internet, with one party taking an optimist stance while the other question some serious doubts on the task force.

US President Barack Obama today sent his greetings to Bangladeshi peoples on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bengali New Year.

50 people are injured while rushing out of RMG factories in EPZ and Oxygen areas and four buildings tilted in Chittagong after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar.

Indonesian pop star Irma Bule passed away on last Sunday, after being bitten by a king cobra while performing on stage, reports Mashable.

Believe it or not, part of a government-funded building has been constructed using bamboo sticks in place of iron rods.

A pilot of Air India kept around 110 passengers waiting for nearly two-and-a-half hours because he was not accompanied by his favourite female co-pilot.

Anyone giving private tuition or coaching will have to face punishment, as the draft of a new law stipulates that the government can take necessary measures to stop private tuition and coaching.

Remember the video of the boy singing a local song with a tourist in Cox’s Bazar that went viral last month? Well, thanks to the musician in the video the story does not end there.

Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni shows that cricket is still a gentleman’s game. At the post-match presentation ceremony, Dhoni expresses his sympathies for Bangladesh team and offered a few consolatory words to Mahmudullah.

Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah combined have played 391 games in the shorter versions of the game. And they were perhaps the most experienced batsmen that Bangladesh had to stroke those two runs off the last three balls to create a small piece of history at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore yesterday.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hasan Papon said that the board was not happy with the ICC's decision to ban Taskin Ahmed from bowling in international cricket, neither was it satisfied with the report it received on Taskin's bowling action.

Actress Parveen Sultana Diti passes away after a long battle with brain cancer. She breathed her last at United Hospital at 4:05pm.

She may have been briefly separated from her parents for her poor judgement of a child, but then it was her ready wits that soon reunited her with them.

Would you believe that the cost of living in Dhaka is as high as that in Canadian city of Montreal—although the living amenities and conditions in these two cities are world apart?

Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman submits resignation letter to the PM amid criticism over the heist of US$101m from the central bank’s account with Federal Reserve Bank of New York by hackers last month.

A 13-year-old boy was allegedly raped by five youths in Bayezid area of Chittagong city early Saturday.

The recent hacking of the Bangladesh Bank system to steal at least $100 million reveals the vulnerability of the central bank's IT infrastructure, weak operational architecture and probable insider link. The heist also puts to question what kind of network architecture and firewall it has in place. Everybody is talking about malware injection into the BB system but nobody is asking how the malware could enter the supposed-to-be most robust and secure system of a central bank in the first place.

Maia Santos-Deguito, manager of Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation's (RCBC) Jupiter Street branch in Makati City of the Philippines is feeling the heat of the allegation of laundering $81 million stolen from the US account of Bangladesh Bank.