Sources: BBC
A court in Bangladesh sentences seven Awami League leaders who were former officials in former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's government to death "in absentia" over their role in deadly crackdowns on the anti-government protests in 2024. 2026-09-15
At least 19 people are killed and 25 others are injured when their bus falls into a ditch in Madaripur District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. 2023-03-19
Bangladesh and The Bahamas report their first suspected cases of monkeypox. 2022-06-7
Bangladesh reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant in the sample of a 49-year-old woman in Dhaka. 2021-08-16
Thousands rally in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka calling for a boycott of French goods over French President Emmanuel Macron's defense of cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad, which Muslims consider to be highly blasphemous. Police prevented the protesters from reaching the French Embassy. 2020-10-27
Bangladesh plans to introduce the death penalty for rape, following days of protests about the country's high level of sexual violence against women. 2020-10-12
The government of Myanmar agrees to repatriate 374 Rohingya refugees from a list of 8,000 submitted by the government of Bangladesh. Myanmar's authorities blamed their Bangladeshi counterparts for the slow process, citing "incomplete" information for many of the refugees on the list. 2018-03-15
Four people are killed in twin bombings in Sylhet, Bangladesh. 2017-03-25
A Hindu priest is hacked to death and two devotees, who tried to intercede, are wounded in a temple in the Panchagarh District in northern Bangladesh. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility. 2016-02-21
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi travels to Bangladesh for the signing of an agreement that dissolves all 162 enclaves in the border region between the two nations and allows thousands of people living in the territories to choose their nationality. 2015-06-6