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
The European Union's counter-piracy mission says that one of its warships is currently shadowing the hijacked Bangladeshi bulk carrier Abdullah as it sails toward the coast of Somalia. At least 23 crew members are being held hostage by pirates on the ship. 2024-03-13
The Directorate General of Health Services in Bangladesh reports the highest single-day count of dengue cases this year, with 678 new infections, primarily in Dhaka. 2023-07-4
Bangladesh reports a record 13,768 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1.03 million. 2021-07-12
Bangladesh imposes a lockdown that suspends all public transport and only allows people to leave their house for emergency reasons due to a substantial increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. Soldiers are deployed to enforce the lockdown. 2021-07-1
Julie Bishop, the Foreign Minister of Australia, says that Indonesia has advised that most of the people who have traveled to South East Asia by boat are from Bangladesh, not Rohingya from Myanmar. 2015-05-23
A fire at a garment factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh, kills 10 people. 2013-10-9
The Bangladesh Police hold editor Mahmudur Rahman from "Amar Desh", an opposition newspaper, in custody on charges of sedition, illegal publication of Skype conversations of a judge in Bangladesh's ongoing war crimes trial, and inciting violence in recent protests. 2013-04-11
2013 Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh tornado: At least 20 people are killed and more than 200 injured when a powerful tornado rips through the southeastern district of Brahmanbaria in Bangladesh. 2013-03-23
A fire at the Garib & Garib Sweater Factory clothes factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh kills at least 18 people and injures more than 50 others. 2010-02-25