Sources: BBC
About 20 armed pirates hijack a Bangladeshi bulk carrier in the Indian Ocean that was en route to the United Arab Emirates. The vessel is under the control of the pirates and is heading towards the coast of Somalia. 2024-03-12
More than 2,000 shelters are destroyed in a fire in Kutupalong refugee camp, Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh. 2023-03-5
Bangladesh and The Bahamas report their first suspected cases of monkeypox. 2022-06-7
Seventeen people are killed in northern Bangladesh during a lightning strike on a boat celebrating a wedding. 2021-08-4
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
Despite international pressure to back down, Bangladesh begins transferring thousands of Rohingya refugees to the remote island of Bhasan Char in the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh says all the refugees being moved have given consent and that the relocation was voluntary. 2020-12-4
A court in Bangladesh sentences sixteen people to death after they burned a student alive when she reported sexual harassment by a teacher. 2019-10-23
Bangladesh suspends six trading firms on the Dhaka Stock Exchange after an 8.5% fall on the index. 2011-01-21
Bangladesh authorities indefinitely shut down Dhaka's University of Engineering and Technology due to a student rampage which injures four people because of 2010 FIFA World Cup fever. 2010-06-21