Sources: CNN VOA News
A domestic tribunal in Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death in absentia over crimes against humanity committed during the quota reform protests in 2024. 2025-11-17
Bangladesh increases the minimum wage for garment workers by nearly 56% to 12,500 link=yes (US$113) per month, a move trade unions find insufficient against their demand for a 23,000 ($208) threshold amid rising costs of living and inflation. 2023-11-7
Mohibullah, a prominent Rohingya Muslim leader and high-profile advocate for the Rohingya, is killed by a gunman in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh. 2021-09-29
At least four people are killed in Chittagong, Bangladesh, when police open fire at protesters during a demonstration against a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 2021-03-26
Thousands rally in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka calling for a boycott of French goods over French President Emmanuel Macron's defense of cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad, which Muslims consider to be highly blasphemous. Police prevented the protesters from reaching the French Embassy. 2020-10-27
An attack leaves at least eight people dead at a camp for Rohingya people in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi authorities detain 12 people after multiple attacks, including arson and gunfire, occurred for several days. 2020-10-9
A court in Bangladesh sentences Riaz Uddin Fakir to death for war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War. 2018-05-10
The government of Myanmar agrees to repatriate 374 Rohingya refugees from a list of 8,000 submitted by the government of Bangladesh. Myanmar's authorities blamed their Bangladeshi counterparts for the slow process, citing "incomplete" information for many of the refugees on the list. 2018-03-15
A ferry sinks on the Meghna River in Bangladesh's Munshiganj District resulting in at least 12 deaths and hundreds missing. 2014-05-15
At least 10 people are killed in crash involving two trains in eastern Bangladesh. 2010-12-8