Sources: CNN
Bangladesh increases the minimum wage for garment workers by nearly 56% to 12,500 link=yes (US$113) per month, a move trade unions find insufficient against their demand for a 23,000 ($208) threshold amid rising costs of living and inflation. 2023-11-7
Nine people are killed and two others are injured by a lightning strike in Sirajganj, Bangladesh. 2022-09-8
Bangladesh reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant in the sample of a 49-year-old woman in Dhaka. 2021-08-16
Bangladesh reports a record 7,213 new confirmed cases and 66 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 651,652 and the nationwide death toll to 9,384. 2021-04-6
Bangladesh celebrates Easter as national holiday for first time in 30 years. The South Asian nation of 159 million is 89% Muslim and 10% Hindu. Pope Francis made an apostolic journey to Myanmar and Bangladesh in 2017. 2019-04-20
The government of Myanmar agrees to repatriate 1,101 Rohingya refugees out of a list of over 8,000 submitted by their Bangladeshi counterparts. There are currently over 700,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. 2018-05-18
At least 14 people are killed in the Indian city of Mumbai as nearly a month's average rainfall fell yesterday during the worst monsoon in years. More than 1,200 people have been killed across India, Nepal and Bangladesh. 2017-08-30
At least four people are dead in Bangladesh following clashes between the Islamists and the police. 2013-02-22
At least 30 people are dead and dozens missing after the MV Shariatpur 1 ferry carrying 200 people collides with an oil tanker. It capsizes on the Meghna River in Bangladesh's Munshiganj District near the capital Dhaka. 2012-03-13