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Police in Bangladesh arrest over 1,300 people amid riots and pro-Sheikh Hasina protests.
2025-02-10

Bangladesh and Myanmar order massive evacuations as Cyclone Mocha makes landfall in both countries' coastal areas. Six people are killed in Myanmar, with about 90% of the city of Sittwe being destroyed.
2023-05-14

At least 52 people are killed and about 30 others injured by a fire in a food processing factory in Rupganj, Narayanganj, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh.
2021-07-8

The judicial commissioner of Singapore sentences a Bangladeshi national to death after he was found guilty of murdering his Indonesian girlfriend two years ago. In Singapore, a charge of murder carries the mandatory death penalty.
2020-12-14

Four people are killed in twin bombings in Sylhet, Bangladesh.
2017-03-25

Ansar-al Islam, the Bangladeshi branch of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, claims responsibility for yesterday's murder of USAID employee and LGBT activist Xulhaz Mannan and his friend, actor Tanay Majumder.
2016-04-26

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

A stampede at a Hindu festival in Langalbandh, Bangladesh, kills at least ten people with dozens more injured.
2015-03-27

The death toll rises to 1,006 - Bangladesh's worst industrial accident and the deadliest structural collapse in modern human history.
2013-05-9

New cables show that the British government was involved in the training of the Bangladeshi Rapid Action Battalion, a paramilitary force widely criticised for human rights violations, including torture and over 1,000 extra-judicial killings since its 2004 inception.
2010-12-22