Sources: AP via ABC
A court in Bangladesh orders the arrest of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others for crimes against humanity. Hasina is in exile in India. 2024-10-17
Landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains in Bangladesh and India kill at least 15 people, injure several others, and displace millions of people. 2024-06-19
The International Monetary Fund agrees to a preliminary deal with Bangladesh for a US$4.5 billion loan to support the struggling Bangladeshi economy amid rising energy and food prices. 2022-11-9
Bangladesh and The Bahamas report their first suspected cases of monkeypox. 2022-06-7
Bangladesh reports a new single-day record of 2.8 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered as part of a six-day special vaccination campaign, in which 2.7 million people received their first dose of the vaccine. 2021-08-8
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
Bangladesh hangs Abdul Kader Mullah, a leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, for committing atrocities in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. 2013-12-12
Police in Bangladesh fire tear gas at 20,000 demonstrators protesting against government plans to build an airport south of the capital Dhaka. A policeman is killed in the incident. 2011-01-31
New cables show that the British government was involved in the training of the Bangladeshi Rapid Action Battalion, a paramilitary force widely criticised for human rights violations, including torture and over 1,000 extra-judicial killings since its 2004 inception. 2010-12-22
Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers block highways, attack factories and loot shops in Dhaka after rejecting a minimum wage increase offered by the Government of Bangladesh. 2010-07-30