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Nine people are killed and two others are injured by a lightning strike in Sirajganj, Bangladesh.
2022-09-8

Bangladesh bans all public gatherings, restricts the capacity of public transportation to 50%, and mandates that face masks be worn in all public places in an attempt to reduce the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
2022-01-13

Bangladesh suspends the entry of travellers from South Africa amid fears of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant first detected in Botswana.
2021-11-27

Bangladesh reports a record 11,525 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the national total of confirmed cases to 966,406.
2021-07-6

Tajikistan foreign minister Sirodjidin Aslov meets with Bangladesh State Minister of Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam.
2018-04-15

In Madarganj Upazila, Jamalpur, Bangladesh, a group of between 70 and 80 people from one faith of mosque attack an inauguration ceremony for another faith of mosque, resulting in at least 20 injured.
2018-03-31

A boiler explodes causing a fire in a factory in the Bangladeshi city of Tongi killing at least 25 people and injures 70 others.
2016-09-10

The head of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Motiur Rahman Nizami, is executed for his alleged role in acts of genocide and war crimes 45 years ago during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971. Nizami is the fifth senior opposition leader to be executed in connection with the war; a total of 17 people have received the death penalty. Authorities prepare for possibly violent protests.
2016-05-11

Teachers, writers and students lead a protest rally in Dhaka against the recent killings and attacks on secular authors and publishers in Bangladesh.
2015-11-1

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi travels to Bangladesh for the signing of an agreement that dissolves all 162 enclaves in the border region between the two nations and allows thousands of people living in the territories to choose their nationality.
2015-06-6