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Protestors storm the prime minister's residence and the National Parliament building in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2024-08-5

At least 300 suspected members of a Muslim mob are arrested for the killing of two Hindu men three days ago at a temple in Noakhali, Bangladesh. The violence occurred after an alleged Quran desecration at a Hindu temple in Haziganj Upazila. Several Hindu temples were also damaged in the clashes. Four members of the mob were also killed when Bangladesh Police personnel opened fire in Chandpur.
2021-10-18

A bus carrying 32 Hindu pilgrims veers off a highway in central Nepal, killing at least 14 people.
2019-12-15

At least ten people are killed by a fire at a fan factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh.
2019-12-15

The government of Bangladesh announces it will begin moving thousands of Rohingya refugees from crowded camps to the flood-prone island of Thengar Char, starting early November. The government hopes to relocate 100,000 refugees by the end of the operation, which has been criticised by rights groups as an "inevitable" humanitarian crisis.
2019-10-20

Malaysia turns away two boats with more than 800 Rohingya and Bangladesh migrants abandoned at sea by human traffickers.
2015-05-14

The owners of Tazreen Fashions, Delwar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akter, hand themselves in to face charges of murder in relation to the death of 112 workers in a factory fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in November 2012.
2014-02-9

The search of the wreckage of the 2013 Savar building collapse in Bangladesh ends with 1,127 people found dead.
2013-05-13

A fire at the Garib & Garib Sweater Factory clothes factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh kills at least 18 people and injures more than 50 others.
2010-02-25