Sources: AP via ABC
Following the 2024 quota reform movement in Bangladesh, students who led the protests announce the formation of a new political party, the National Citizen Party, led by Nahid Islam, a student activist and the chief coordinator of the Students Against Discrimination movement. 2025-02-28
About 20 armed pirates hijack a Bangladeshi bulk carrier in the Indian Ocean that was en route to the United Arab Emirates. The vessel is under the control of the pirates and is heading towards the coast of Somalia. 2024-03-12
Bangladesh suffers a severe power grid failure, leaving 80 percent of the country without electricity, according to the Bangladesh Power Development Board. 2022-10-4
Bangladesh receives a shipment of 781,440 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by Japan. 2021-08-21
A garment factory boiler explosion in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills 10 people and injures dozens. 2017-07-4
Bangladeshi police report that two opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists are shot dead in clashes with members of the ruling Awami League in the town of Natore on the first anniversary of disputed general election. 2015-01-5
The search of the wreckage of the 2013 Savar building collapse in Bangladesh ends with 1,127 people found dead. 2013-05-13
At least four people are dead in Bangladesh following clashes between the Islamists and the police. 2013-02-22