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At least 340 members of Myanmar's Border Guard Police flee into neighboring Bangladesh and are disarmed and detained by Border Guard Bangladesh in the past week amid continued fighting against the Arakan Army.
2024-02-9

Bangladesh reports a record 212 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 16,004. The country also surpasses one million cases of the virus.
2021-07-9

At least 26 people are killed when a speedboat collides with a vessel transporting sand on the Padma River in Bangladesh.
2021-05-3

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

Hundreds of garment workers march in Chittagong, Bangladesh, demanding factory owners pay them last month's wages following delays.
2020-04-18

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

At least 24 people are killed and 22 injured in a bus accident in southwestern Bangladesh.
2015-04-9

The Bangladeshi Opposition calls a general strike over restoration of a caretaker administration with reports of explosions and clashes between police and protesters in the capital Dhaka.
2012-12-13

A bomb kills one person and clashes break out in Bangladesh between security and opposition protesters during the 40th anniversary of the country's independence.
2011-12-18

Nearly half a million people are made homeless by flooding caused by three days of heavy rain in Bangladesh.
2010-10-10