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The International Monetary Fund agrees to a preliminary deal with Bangladesh for a US$4.5 billion loan to support the struggling Bangladeshi economy amid rising energy and food prices.
2022-11-9

Bangladesh reports its first cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in two female cricketers of the Bangladesh Cricket Team who travelled from Zimbabwe.
2021-12-11

Bangladesh has reported a total of 10,981 dengue fever cases and 48 related deaths since the beginning of the year.
2021-09-3

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

A court in Bangladesh sentences sixteen people to death after they burned a student alive when she reported sexual harassment by a teacher.
2019-10-23

Bangladeshi secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das is cut to pieces by a masked gang wielding machetes in the city of Sylhet. He is the third secular blogger to be killed in Bangladesh this year.
2015-05-12

A strong 7.9 earthquake strikes between the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and the regional headquarter city of Pokhara. The Government of Nepal declares a state of emergency with 1500 dead. A number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites are destroyed, including the historic Dharahara tower. Deaths are also recorded in India, Bangladesh and the Chinese province of Tibet.
2015-04-25

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina rejects demands by Islamists for a new anti-blasphemy law to punish those who defame Islam and Prophet Muhammad.
2013-04-8

Bangladesh detains five Rohingya Muslims who fled fighting between Buddhists and Muslims in Burma. [http:--www.bangkokpost.com-news-asia-320692-bangladesh-detains-myanmar-rohingya-refugees ("Bangkok Post")]date=August 2019
2012-11-11

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs in northwestern Sikkim, northern India, causing shaking in parts of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Tibet Autonomous Region. At least thirty seven deaths are reported.
2011-09-18