Sources: AP
A 15-year-old Hindu boy is killed by a Muslim mob inside a police station in Khulna, Bangladesh, after allegedly insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad on Facebook. 2024-09-5
A cargo train collides with a passenger train in Bhairab, Bangladesh, killing at least 17 people and injuring many others. 2023-10-23
At least 19 people are killed and 25 others are injured when their bus falls into a ditch in Madaripur District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. 2023-03-19
Bangladesh reports a record 212 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 16,004. The country also surpasses one million cases of the virus. 2021-07-9
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
A rescue operation is underway in Bangladesh as a ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River after colliding with a trawler. The death toll has reached 41. 2015-02-22
Opposition activists from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies detonate small homemade bombs and set fire to several vehicles in the latest anti-government protest to hit Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2013-04-2
At least four Buddhist temples and fifteen homes are burnt by hundreds of Muslims in Bangladesh, angry about a picture allegedly posted on Facebook by a Buddhist man that had allegedly insulted Islam. 2012-09-30
The Bangladeshi government outlaws the works of Abul Ala Maududi. 2010-07-16
Bangladesh authorities indefinitely shut down Dhaka's University of Engineering and Technology due to a student rampage which injures four people because of 2010 FIFA World Cup fever. 2010-06-21