Sources: BBC
The Directorate General of Health Services reports that five more children in Bangladesh have died from measles in the past 24 hours. 2026-06-13
A Bangladeshi court sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and British MP Tulip Siddiq to five years and two years in prison, respectively, for corruption involving a government land project. 2025-12-1
Bangladeshi chief adviser Muhammad Yunus announces a national referendum on the July Charter, which recognizes the 2024 uprising that ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. 2025-11-13
Bangladesh bans all public gatherings, restricts the capacity of public transportation to 50%, and mandates that face masks be worn in all public places in an attempt to reduce the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. 2022-01-13
Bangladesh approves the emergency use of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine, becoming the second Chinese-made vaccine to be approved in the country. 2021-06-6
Professor Rezaul Karim Siddique is killed in the Bangladeshi city of Rajshahi in an ISIL attack. 2016-04-23
In the town of Chuddogram in eastern Bangladesh, anti-government protesters firebomb a bus full of sleeping passengers, leaving seven people dead. 2015-02-3
Bangladesh hangs Abdul Kader Mullah, a leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, for committing atrocities in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. 2013-12-12
At least 13 people are killed and 15 injured as a result of a lightning strike at a mosque in a remote village in northeast Bangladesh. 2012-08-11
Nearly half a million people are made homeless by flooding caused by three days of heavy rain in Bangladesh. 2010-10-10