Sources: BBC News
Bangladeshi chief adviser Muhammad Yunus declares that the country cannot allocate additional domestic resources to support its 1.3 million Rohingya refugees and urges the international community to create a sustainable plan for their repatriation to Myanmar. 2025-08-25
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk reports that over 1,400 people were killed last year during violent crackdowns on protests against the government of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by the military and police, with over 78% of the casualties having been shot. 2025-02-12
Police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, ban all public rallies and protests in the city and impose a nationwide curfew, one day after protestors set fire to government buildings in the city. 2024-07-19
Bangladesh reports a record 153 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the national death toll to 15,065. 2021-07-4
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accuses the Burmese government of "atrocities" against the Rohingya people and calls for these alleged atrocities to stop. 2017-09-12
152 people are sentenced to death in Bangladesh in connection to the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt. 2013-11-5
At least 16 people die in clashes in Bangladesh as a strike organized by Jamaat-e-Islami begins. 2013-03-3
The Bangladeshi Opposition calls a general strike over restoration of a caretaker administration with reports of explosions and clashes between police and protesters in the capital Dhaka. 2012-12-13
Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Dhaka, Bangladesh, demanding the government step down and hold elections. 2012-03-12