Sources: AP via ABC
Bangladesh reports a record 212 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 16,004. The country also surpasses one million cases of the virus. 2021-07-9
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
A committee of the United States House of Representatives is looking into the way the Federal Reserve Bank of New York investigated the theft of assets it was holding for the central bank of Bangladesh. 2016-06-1
More than 50 have been killed by lightning strikes in Bangladesh over the past two days. 2016-05-14
A Bangladesh Court issues an arrest warrant, the second one so far, for former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and 27 opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party members over political violence, mostly petrol-bomb attacks, that occurred during anti-government protests last year that killed at least 120 people. 2016-03-30
The death toll from the weekend ferry disaster in Bangladesh rises to 70. 2015-02-23
Rescuers struggle to locate a sunken ferry in the Padma River in Bangladesh leaving at least two people dead and many more missing. 2014-08-5
At least 17 people are killed and 30 injured after a truck collides with a bus in the Bogra District of Bangladesh. 2011-07-28
Police and protesters clash in Bangladesh over a gas exploration deal with ConocoPhilips; 150 people are detained. 2011-07-3
At least 49 people are killed during landslides in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, with many swept to their deaths as they slept. 2010-06-16