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Bangladesh bans all public gatherings, restricts the capacity of public transportation to 50%, and mandates that face masks be worn in all public places in an attempt to reduce the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
2022-01-13

Bangladesh reports a record 8,364 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 896,770.
2021-06-28

An attack leaves at least eight people dead at a camp for Rohingya people in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi authorities detain 12 people after multiple attacks, including arson and gunfire, occurred for several days.
2020-10-9

SpaceX launches Bangabandhu-1, Bangladesh's first geostationary communications satellite, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United States.
2018-05-11

A refugee boat en route to Bangladesh from Myanmar capsizes, resulting in at least 12 deaths.
2017-10-8

A group of radical Islamists hurl homemade bombs at police officers in the Kishoreganj District in central Bangladesh killing at least one officer and injuring several others.
2016-07-7

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

Bangladeshi politician Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury is sentenced to death for war crimes including murder, torture, and genocide for his atrocities in the Bangladesh Liberation War.
2013-10-1

Riots take place in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, ahead of the verdict of a trial in the International Crimes Tribunal against Abdul Quader Molla, the assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party dating from the 1971 Bangladeshi War of Independence. He is given a life sentence.
2013-02-5

Protests by garment workers in Bangladesh over low wages spread to other areas of the country.
2010-12-13