Sources: BBC
At least 57 people are dead after severe flooding in eastern India and Bangladesh. 2022-05-21
Bangladesh reports a record 8,364 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 896,770. 2021-06-28
Twenty-six bodies of women and children are recovered after three boats carrying ethnic Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar sink in the Naf River in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar District. 2017-08-31
A group of radical Islamists hurl homemade bombs at police officers in the Kishoreganj District in central Bangladesh killing at least one officer and injuring several others. 2016-07-7
Gunmen storm a restaurant, exchange fire with security, and take at least twenty hostages in the Gulshan neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Two policemen are killed. The Islamic State claims responsibility. 2016-07-1
More than 50 have been killed by lightning strikes in Bangladesh over the past two days. 2016-05-14
A second nationwide strike takes place in Bangladesh over changes to the electoral system. 2011-06-12
Police in Bangladesh arrest senior opposition leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury on charges of instigating violence and war crimes. 2010-12-16
A power crisis in Bangladesh prompts the government to order the partial shut-down of natural gas stations in and near Dhaka. 2010-08-12
Bangladeshi police arrest an army major who allegedly possessed hundreds of bottles of Phensedyl, an illegal cough syrup. 2010-07-17