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
Bangladesh suspends the entry of travellers from South Africa amid fears of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant first detected in Botswana. 2021-11-27
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
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launches a vaccination programme in Bangladesh using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. 2021-01-27
Win Myat Aye, Myanmar's minister of social welfare, relief and resettlement, announced that his country would begin repatriating Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh beginning on January 23, 2018. Burmese officials also promised that a newly built camp for repatriated refugees would also be finished by that date. 2018-01-15
A refugee boat en route to Bangladesh from Myanmar capsizes, resulting in at least 12 deaths. 2017-10-8
Malaysia detains over a thousand Bangladeshi and Rohingya people asylum seekers who arrived by boat on Monday. The Indonesian Navy confirms that it had turned the boats away. 2015-05-11
The death toll in Bangladesh rises to 401. [http:--www.miamiherald.com-2013-04-25-3363410-149-die-more-cry-for-help-at-bangladesh.html (AP via "Miami Herald")]date=August 2019 2013-04-26
Iran praises the United States Navy after American sailors rescued Iranian fishermen from armed pirates in the Arabian Sea. 2012-01-7
A nationwide strike takes place in Bangladesh after former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was evicted from her home. 2010-11-14