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Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir is arrested in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on charges of crimes against humanity, mass killing, and murder for his involvement with Sheikh Hasina's government during the quota reform movement.
2024-09-17

The IMF approves a $681 million disbursement for Bangladesh, the second portion of a $4.7 billion loan package.
2023-12-12

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

Bangladesh reports a record 7,626 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 659,278.
2021-04-7

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

At least 14 people are killed in the Indian city of Mumbai as nearly a month's average rainfall fell yesterday during the worst monsoon in years. More than 1,200 people have been killed across India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
2017-08-30

A train derails in the Bangladesh district of Gaibandha as a result of sabotage resulting in at least 3 deaths. Over 60 people have been killed since an opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party announced a campaign against next months election.
2013-12-4

Shops and schools are closed in Bangladesh due to an anti-government strike.
2011-06-5

Several dozen Rohingya boat refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar are accepted to India at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands after being detained by the Thai Navy and rejected at sea, but face repatriation to Bangladesh.
2011-02-8

Three policemen are killed by suspected left-wing extremists in Pabna, Bangladesh.
2010-07-21