Sources: AP
Hundreds of people protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, against violence targeting the country's Hindu minority. 2024-08-9
Twelve people are killed and 26 others injured when a minibus carrying illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh crashes and catches fire in Muradiye, Van Province, Turkey. 2021-07-11
The Rajya Sabha of India votes 125 to 105 to pass a controversial amendment to the Indian nationality law that would expedite citizenship for religious minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. As the bill omits Muslims, critics say it's discriminatory and violates the secular nature of the Constitution. Massive protests break out in the state of Assam in response. 2019-12-11
A court in Bangladesh sentences sixteen people to death after they burned a student alive when she reported sexual harassment by a teacher. 2019-10-23
Bangladesh's Foreign Minister A. H. Mahmood Ali and Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi agree to return Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar in a two-month period. 2017-11-23
A refugee boat en route to Bangladesh from Myanmar capsizes, resulting in at least 12 deaths. 2017-10-8
At least 134 people are dead and dozens are missing in landslides caused by days of heavy monsoonal rain in Bangladesh. 2017-06-13
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
A ferry sinks on the Meghna River in Bangladesh's Munshiganj District resulting in at least 12 deaths and hundreds missing. 2014-05-15
At least four people are dead in Bangladesh following clashes between the Islamists and the police. 2013-02-22