Sources: BBC
At least 23 people are killed and more than 4.5 million people are affected by floods caused by heavy rains in eastern Bangladesh. 2024-08-23
At least 43 people are killed in a building fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2024-02-29
Bangladesh reports a record of 9,964 new cases and 164 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 954,881 and the nationwide death toll to 15,229. 2021-07-5
Bangladesh reports 78 deaths from COVID-19, a record for the second consecutive day, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 9,739. 2021-04-11
Bangladesh plans to introduce the death penalty for rape, following days of protests about the country's high level of sexual violence against women. 2020-10-12
Hundreds of garment workers march in Chittagong, Bangladesh, demanding factory owners pay them last month's wages following delays. 2020-04-18
A fast-moving fire has swept through a historic district of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, killing at least 80 and wounding 50 others. 2019-02-20
India and Bangladesh have swapped control of some 160 small pockets of land on each other's territory. Residents were asked to choose where they wanted to live and which nationality they would prefer. Most of them decided to change nationality and stay where they live. 2015-07-31
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 in Bangladesh fire tear gas at 20,000 demonstrators protesting against government plans to build an airport south of the capital Dhaka. A policeman is killed in the incident. 2011-01-31