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The Directorate General of Health Services in Bangladesh reports the highest single-day count of dengue cases this year, with 678 new infections, primarily in Dhaka.
2023-07-4

Bangladesh has reported a total of 10,981 dengue fever cases and 48 related deaths since the beginning of the year.
2021-09-3

Bangladesh removes a passage from its passport saying that it cannot be used for travel to and from Israel, thereby formally lifting the travel ban.
2021-05-22

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits the Indian states of West Bengal and Assam, part of Meghalaya, and part of Bangladesh, causing damage to houses and buildings. Two people die from heart attacks, while ten others are wounded by the earthquake itself.
2021-04-28

At least 14 Rohingya people, including 10 children, fleeing violence in Myanmar are killed when their boat apparently hits a submerged object and capsizes just yards from the Bangladesh coast.
2017-09-28

The death toll rises to 1,006 - Bangladesh's worst industrial accident and the deadliest structural collapse in modern human history.
2013-05-9

An eight-story commercial building collapses in Savar Upazila near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, resulting in at least 256 people dead, one thousand injured and scores more trapped.
2013-04-24

At least 35 people are killed across Bangladesh in violent demonstrations sparked when Islamic political leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was sentenced to death for war crimes.
2013-02-28

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus loses his final appeal in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh against his dismissal from his own Grameen micro-finance bank; the bank thought him too old for the job.
2011-04-5

29 paramilitary troops are convicted of mutiny and imprisoned for up to seven years at a Bangladeshi tribunal.
2010-04-8