Sources: BBC
Bangladesh reports a record 101 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 10,181. 2021-04-16
Bangladesh reports a record 7,213 new confirmed cases and 66 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 651,652 and the nationwide death toll to 9,384. 2021-04-6
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launches a vaccination programme in Bangladesh using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. 2021-01-27
A fire at a hospital kills five patients being treated for COVID-19 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. No cause for the fire has been determined. 2020-05-27
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
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
Attackers in Bangladesh wielding machetes kill Nazimuddin Samad, a liberal blogger. 2016-04-7
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
Police and protesters clash in Bangladesh over a gas exploration deal with ConocoPhilips; 150 people are detained. 2011-07-3