Sources: CNN
Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina announces that she plans to return to the country from exile in New Delhi, India, despite facing a death sentence for her role during a violent crackdown on protesters that led to her resignation two years ago. 2026-08-5
Eleven people are killed and nine others injured after lightning strikes across five districts in Bangladesh. 2024-05-2
Around 150 garment factories in Ashulia and Gazipur, Bangladesh, close indefinitely after violent protests demanding higher minimum wages result in police filing charges against 11,000 workers and three more killed. 2023-11-11
Bangladesh reports a record 119 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 14,172. 2021-06-27
Bangladesh reports a record 6,830 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 624,594. The country also reports its highest ever seven-day moving average of deaths with 50. 2021-04-2
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hits central Myanmar, 25km west of the town of Chauk, and was also felt in Thailand, Bangladesh and India, according to reports. At least three people are killed. 2016-08-24
The owners of Tazreen Fashions, Delwar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akter, hand themselves in to face charges of murder in relation to the death of 112 workers in a factory fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in November 2012. 2014-02-9
The Bangladeshi central bank attempts to remove Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus from the Grameen Bank which he founded. 2011-03-2