Sources: BBC
Over 20,000 Hefazat-e-Islam protesters rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to denounce proposed legislation that would provide equal rights for Muslim women such as inheritance law, a ban on polygamy, and recognition of sex workers as laborers, which they allege oppose Sharia law. 2025-05-3
Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir is arrested in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on charges of crimes against humanity, mass killing, and murder for his involvement with Sheikh Hasina's government during the quota reform movement. 2024-09-17
A 15-year-old Hindu boy is killed by a Muslim mob inside a police station in Khulna, Bangladesh, after allegedly insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad on Facebook. 2024-09-5
Two people are killed and dozens are injured in anti-government protests in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2023-10-31
At least 26 people are killed when a speedboat collides with a vessel transporting sand on the Padma River in Bangladesh. 2021-05-3
The government of Myanmar agrees to repatriate 1,101 Rohingya refugees out of a list of over 8,000 submitted by their Bangladeshi counterparts. There are currently over 700,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. 2018-05-18
Officials call off rescue operations as 54 dead bodies recovered with an unknown number of people missing in a ferry disaster in the Meghna River of Bangladesh.2014-05-17
The death toll from the sinking of a ferry in Bangladesh on Tuesday rises to 116 with more people missing. 2012-03-15
At least 30 people drown after a boat capsizes in northeastern Bangladesh. 2010-12-18
Humanitarian group Médecins Sans Frontières accuses Bangladesh of a "crackdown" on Muslim Rohingya refugees from Burma. 2010-02-18