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Bangladesh begins administering booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 60 and frontline workers who have been fully vaccinated more than six months ago as the country attempts to reduce the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
2021-12-28

Police in Bangladesh arrest eight people, including the factory's company owner in connection with the fire that killed at least 52 people. Police say that emergency exits were locked in the building.
2021-07-10

At least 32 people die when their ferry collides with another vessel and sinks in the Buriganga River, near Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. There are still about 20 passengers missing.
2020-06-29

A fire at a hospital kills five patients being treated for COVID-19 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. No cause for the fire has been determined.
2020-05-27

A court in Bangladesh sentences sixteen people to death after they burned a student alive when she reported sexual harassment by a teacher.
2019-10-23

Bangladesh's Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque tells the United Nations Security Council that his country will no longer accept Rohingya refugees fleeing violence across the border in Rakhine State, and accuses Myanmar of "hollow promises" regarding repatriation.
2019-03-1

Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it is "closely following the situation" in Rakhine State and offers aid for the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh.
2017-09-30

Hundreds of garment factories in Bangladesh shut down due to strikes by workers seeking higher pay.
2013-09-24

At least 13 people are killed and 15 injured as a result of a lightning strike at a mosque in a remote village in northeast Bangladesh.
2012-08-11

Nearly half a million people are made homeless by flooding caused by three days of heavy rain in Bangladesh.
2010-10-10