Sources: AP via ABC
At least 52 people are killed and about 30 others injured by a fire in a food processing factory in Rupganj, Narayanganj, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. 2021-07-8
Bangladesh reports 78 deaths from COVID-19, a record for the second consecutive day, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 9,739. 2021-04-11
At least four people are killed in Chittagong, Bangladesh, when police open fire at protesters during a demonstration against a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 2021-03-26
Bangladesh begins a nationwide vaccination programme against COVID-19 in Dhaka. 2021-02-7
A gas explosion in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kills at least seven people and injures eight. 2019-11-17
Cyclone Fani starts affecting Bangladesh, where over a million people have been evacuated from the storm's path. Authorities say the cyclone has killed at least five people in Bangladesh and damaged over a thousand homes. At least twelve people have been killed in total by the cyclone. 2019-05-4
A court in the Philippines orders the central bank to return US$15 million back to Bangladesh. 2016-09-19
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
The death toll in Bangladesh rises to at least 50 as protests continue following the sentencing of Delwar Hossain Sayeedi. 2013-03-2
At least 12 people drown and 9 others disappear after a boat sinks in Sunamganj District, Bangladesh. 2010-06-8