Sources: BBC
At least 43 people are killed in a building fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2024-02-29
The IMF approves a $681 million disbursement for Bangladesh, the second portion of a $4.7 billion loan package. 2023-12-12
Despite international pressure to back down, Bangladesh begins transferring thousands of Rohingya refugees to the remote island of Bhasan Char in the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh says all the refugees being moved have given consent and that the relocation was voluntary. 2020-12-4
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
At least nine people die after a fire sweeps through more than 200 slum dwellings in Chittagong, Bangladesh. 2019-02-17
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 stampede at a Hindu festival in Langalbandh, Bangladesh, kills at least ten people with dozens more injured. 2015-03-27
Violent clashes occur in Bangladesh as protesters stage a nationwide blockade of roads to press for an independent body to oversee the next general election. At least two people were killed and about 100 injured after police fire rubber bullets and tear gas. 2012-12-9
At least 17 people are killed and 30 injured after a truck collides with a bus in the Bogra District of Bangladesh. 2011-07-28