Sources: AP
Bangladeshi economist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus and three people that worked at his company Grameen Telecom are sentenced to six months in prison for violating Bangladesh's labor laws. 2024-01-1
Bangladesh reports its first six cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant, which was discovered in India, prompting the authorities to extend the land border closure by two weeks. 2021-05-8
A garment factory boiler explosion in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills 10 people and injures dozens. 2017-07-4
Malaysia turns away two boats with more than 800 Rohingya and Bangladesh migrants abandoned at sea by human traffickers. 2015-05-14
A stampede at a Hindu festival in Langalbandh, Bangladesh, kills at least ten people with dozens more injured. 2015-03-27
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
Bangladesh's finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, downplays the impact of last week's factory-building collapse on his country's garment industry. 2013-05-3
Shops and schools are closed in Bangladesh due to an anti-government strike. 2011-06-5
At least 30 people drown after a boat capsizes in northeastern Bangladesh. 2010-12-18
The death toll rises to 109 following a fire in the centre of Dhaka, Bangladesh. At least 50 injured victims struggle for life at the state-run Dhaka Medical College Hospital. 2010-06-4