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
At least 43 people are killed in a building fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2024-02-29
At least 49 people are killed and over 400 others injured by a fire and explosions at a storage depot in Sitakunda, Chittagong District, Bangladesh. 2022-06-5
Voters in Bangladesh head to the polls to elect 299 representatives to parliament. Seventeen people were killed in deadly clashes between supporters and opponents of the country's ruling party. 2018-12-30
Twenty-six bodies of women and children are recovered after three boats carrying ethnic Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar sink in the Naf River in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar District. 2017-08-31
A boiler explodes causing a fire in a factory in the Bangladeshi city of Tongi killing at least 25 people and injures 70 others. 2016-09-10
A rescue operation is underway in Bangladesh as a ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River after colliding with a trawler. The death toll has reached 41. 2015-02-22
The death toll rises to 1,006 - Bangladesh's worst industrial accident and the deadliest structural collapse in modern human history. 2013-05-9
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina rejects demands by Islamists for a new anti-blasphemy law to punish those who defame Islam and Prophet Muhammad. 2013-04-8