Sources: BBC News
Bangladesh increases the minimum wage for garment workers by nearly 56% to 12,500 link=yes (US$113) per month, a move trade unions find insufficient against their demand for a 23,000 ($208) threshold amid rising costs of living and inflation. 2023-11-7
Two people are killed and dozens are injured in anti-government protests in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2023-10-31
At least five people are dead and dozens more missing after a ferry collides with a vessel and sinks in Bangladesh. 2022-03-20
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launches a vaccination programme in Bangladesh using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. 2021-01-27
At least 32 people die when their ferry collides with another vessel and sinks in the Buriganga River, near Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. There are still about 20 passengers missing. 2020-06-29
Attackers in Bangladesh wielding machetes kill Nazimuddin Samad, a liberal blogger. 2016-04-7
A series of bomb blasts targeting Shia Muslims in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka kills at least one person and injures dozens more. Claims of responsibility by ISIS are discounted by Dhaka police who told AFP, "So far we have not found any link to any militant group." 2015-10-24
Authorities in Myanmar and Bangladesh prepare for the arrival of Cyclone Mahasen, which has already killed at least seven people and displaced nearly 4,000 in Sri Lanka. 2013-05-15
At least four people are dead in Bangladesh following clashes between the Islamists and the police. 2013-02-22
At least 49 people are killed during landslides in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, with many swept to their deaths as they slept. 2010-06-16