Sources: CNN
Bangladesh announces that it will request a $4.5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund for balance of payment and budgetary requirements, as well as climate change management activities. 2022-07-26
At least 52 people are killed and about 30 others injured by a fire in a food processing factory in Rupganj, Narayanganj, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. 2021-07-8
U.S. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announces that the Biden administration will ship 2 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Peru and 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Pakistan. Additionally, the United States will also send vaccine doses to Bangladesh. 2021-06-29
The government of Bangladesh announces it will begin moving thousands of Rohingya refugees from crowded camps to the flood-prone island of Thengar Char, starting early November. The government hopes to relocate 100,000 refugees by the end of the operation, which has been criticised by rights groups as an "inevitable" humanitarian crisis. 2019-10-20
A prosecutor asks the International Criminal Court to decide if it has jurisdiction over Rohingya deportations from Myanmar to Bangladesh, saying they may constitute a crime against humanity. 2018-04-9
Julie Bishop, the Foreign Minister of Australia, says that Indonesia has advised that most of the people who have traveled to South East Asia by boat are from Bangladesh, not Rohingya from Myanmar. 2015-05-23
Malaysia turns away two boats with more than 800 Rohingya and Bangladesh migrants abandoned at sea by human traffickers. 2015-05-14
Hundreds of garment factories in Bangladesh shut down due to strikes by workers seeking higher pay. 2013-09-24
At least seven workers die in the factory fire in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 2013-01-27
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs in northwestern Sikkim, northern India, causing shaking in parts of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Tibet Autonomous Region. At least thirty seven deaths are reported. 2011-09-18