Sources: AP via ABC
Bangladesh reports a record 13,768 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1.03 million. 2021-07-12
Bangladesh reports a record of 9,964 new cases and 164 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 954,881 and the nationwide death toll to 15,229. 2021-07-5
The Singaporean government bans all long-term pass holders and short-term visitors who have been in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka in the last two weeks from entering or transiting through the country. It also tightens its social distancing rules in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19. 2021-05-1
Half a million people are evacuated from the Bangladesh coastal area in preparation for the landfall of Cyclone Bulbul. 2019-11-9
A court in Bangladesh sentences Riaz Uddin Fakir to death for war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War. 2018-05-10
The government of Myanmar agrees to repatriate 374 Rohingya refugees from a list of 8,000 submitted by the government of Bangladesh. Myanmar's authorities blamed their Bangladeshi counterparts for the slow process, citing "incomplete" information for many of the refugees on the list. 2018-03-15
Gunmen storm a restaurant, exchange fire with security, and take at least twenty hostages in the Gulshan neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Two policemen are killed. The Islamic State claims responsibility. 2016-07-1
Malaysia bans the recruitment of foreign workers after protests over plans to recruit 1.5 million people from Bangladesh. 2016-03-13
The Dhaka High Court rules the registration of Bangladesh's largest Islamic group Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party illegal making it potentially ineligible to contest elections. 2013-08-1
The Bangladesh Police hold editor Mahmudur Rahman from "Amar Desh", an opposition newspaper, in custody on charges of sedition, illegal publication of Skype conversations of a judge in Bangladesh's ongoing war crimes trial, and inciting violence in recent protests. 2013-04-11