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Over 100 people are injured in violent clashes in Dhaka, Bangladesh, between supporters of the ruling Awami League party and opposition demonstrators protesting government job quotas which benefit pro-government families.
2024-07-15

At least 43 people are killed in a building fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2024-02-29

At least four people are killed and seven others are hospitalized when a water bus carrying 20 passengers capsizes in the Buriganga River near Dhaka, Bangladesh. A rescue operation is ongoing.
2023-07-16

Bangladesh begins a nationwide vaccination programme against COVID-19 in Dhaka.
2021-02-7

Xulhaz Mannan, a Bangladeshi employee of a U.S. charity (USAID), who is also an editor for the country's only LGBT magazine, and a friend are hacked to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by suspected Islamist militants. Guards at the building were also injured.
2016-04-25

ISIL claims responsibility for the killing of an Italian man in Dhaka. If verified, it would be Islamic State's first attack in Bangladesh.
2015-09-28

At least seven workers die in the factory fire in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka.
2013-01-27

Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Dhaka, Bangladesh, demanding the government step down and hold elections.
2012-03-12

50 people are injured in Bangladesh protests attacked army camps, set a jeep on fire and damaged two other vehicles during the clashes in Roopganj, a sub-district of Narayanganj near Dhaka.
2010-10-23

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