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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

Bangladesh Police arrest Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi, the leader of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, a Rohingya insurgent group, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, accusing him of leading and carrying out attacks against the Tatmadaw since 2016 along with charges of illegal entry, murder, and sabotage.
2025-03-19

Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolves the national parliament in preparation for an interim government following the resignation and departure of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
2024-08-6

Landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains in Bangladesh and India kill at least 15 people, injure several others, and displace millions of people.
2024-06-19

Four people are killed and 24 others are injured as police open fire on a mob of 500 Muslims protesting over an alleged Quran desecration at a Hindu temple in Haziganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
2021-10-13

Bangladeshi authorities announces that the country will enter a total lockdown on 28 June as the number of COVID-19 cases increases dramatically.
2021-06-25

A fire at a hospital kills five patients being treated for COVID-19 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. No cause for the fire has been determined.
2020-05-27

Attackers in Bangladesh wielding machetes kill Nazimuddin Samad, a liberal blogger.
2016-04-7

The Bangladesh Police hold editor Mahmudur Rahman from "Amar Desh", an opposition newspaper, in custody on charges of sedition, illegal publication of Skype conversations of a judge in Bangladesh's ongoing war crimes trial, and inciting violence in recent protests.
2013-04-11

Police and protesters clash in Bangladesh over a gas exploration deal with ConocoPhilips; 150 people are detained.
2011-07-3