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Hundreds of people protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, against violence targeting the country's Hindu minority.
2024-08-9

Police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, ban all public rallies and protests in the city and impose a nationwide curfew, one day after protestors set fire to government buildings in the city.
2024-07-19

Bangladesh reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant in the sample of a 49-year-old woman in Dhaka.
2021-08-16

Algeria reopens its embassy in Dhaka, after closing it in 1990.
2020-01-29

Bangladeshi home minister Asaduzzaman Khan meets with his Burmese counterpart, Kyaw Swe, in Dhaka to discuss the repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar. The Burmese delegation accepts a list of 8,032 Rohingya refugees (1,673 families) who are to be repatriated.
2018-02-16

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

A collision between two buses on the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway leaves at least 30 people dead in northwestern Bangladesh.
2014-10-20

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

A Saudi Arabian diplomat is killed in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.
2012-03-6

At least 50 people are injured in Dhaka as police use batons and tear gas to beat back civilians protesting against frequent power outage.
2010-08-12