Sources: BBC
Around six people in Bangladesh are reported to have died from measles in the past 24 hours. Additionally, around 1,517 cases of measles have been reported. 2026-05-17
At least 16 people are killed and several injured in a fire at a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2025-10-14
A court in Bangladesh orders the arrest of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others for crimes against humanity. Hasina is in exile in India. 2024-10-17
An airstrike on a biscuit shop kills five Bangladeshi nationals and two Libyans and wounds 33 others in Tripoli, Libya. A U.N. envoy to Libya claims that it could be a war crime. 2019-11-18
More than 300,000 people are evacuated in Bangladesh as Cyclone Mora approaches. 2017-05-30
Attackers in Bangladesh wielding machetes kill Nazimuddin Samad, a liberal blogger. 2016-04-7
A bombing of people gathered at Kantajew Temple in Bangladesh leaves 10 injured. 2015-12-5
Bangladesh executes two former members of parliament, Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, who were convicted in 2013 of war crimes committed during the country’s 1971 war of independence. 2015-11-22
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 general strike continues in Bangladesh over a proposed change to the electoral system. 2011-07-7