Sources: AP
At least 16 people are killed and several injured in a fire at a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2025-10-14
At least 340 members of Myanmar's Border Guard Police flee into neighboring Bangladesh and are disarmed and detained by Border Guard Bangladesh in the past week amid continued fighting against the Arakan Army. 2024-02-9
The International Monetary Fund agrees to a preliminary deal with Bangladesh for a US$4.5 billion loan to support the struggling Bangladeshi economy amid rising energy and food prices. 2022-11-9
Foreign Minister of Bangladesh AK Abdul Momen says that it is not the responsibility of his country to rescue more than 500 Rohingya refugees who have been at sea for weeks. Momen tells "Al Jazeera" they "should ask the Myanmar government first because they are their citizens". 2020-04-25
Xulhaz Mannan, a Bangladeshi employee of a U.S. charity (USAID), who is also an editor for the country's only LGBT magazine, and a friend are hacked to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by suspected Islamist militants. Guards at the building were also injured. 2016-04-25
Malaysia bans the recruitment of foreign workers after protests over plans to recruit 1.5 million people from Bangladesh. 2016-03-13
At least 24 people are killed and 22 injured in a bus accident in southwestern Bangladesh. 2015-04-9
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 general strike continues in Bangladesh over a proposed change to the electoral system. 2011-07-7
U.S. diplomats applied pressure on Bangladesh to allow the London-based Global Coal Management company to reopen a large open-cast coal mine in the Phulbari area that was closed due to violent protests over foreign ownership of Bangladeshi resources succeeded in closing the mine. 2010-12-22