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Protestors storm the prime minister's residence and the National Parliament building in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2024-08-5

Police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, ban all public rallies and protests in the city and impose a nationwide curfew, one day after protestors set fire to government buildings in the city.
2024-07-19

Two people are killed and dozens are injured in anti-government protests in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2023-10-31

Gunmen storm a restaurant, exchange fire with security, and take at least twenty hostages in the Gulshan neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Two policemen are killed. The Islamic State claims responsibility.
2016-07-1

Xulhaz Mannan, a Bangladeshi employee of a U.S. charity (USAID), who is also an editor for the country's only LGBT magazine, and a friend are hacked to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by suspected Islamist militants. Guards at the building were also injured.
2016-04-25

The owners of Tazreen Fashions, Delwar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akter, hand themselves in to face charges of murder in relation to the death of 112 workers in a factory fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in November 2012.
2014-02-9

The Bangladeshi Opposition calls a general strike over restoration of a caretaker administration with reports of explosions and clashes between police and protesters in the capital Dhaka.
2012-12-13

Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Dhaka, Bangladesh, demanding the government step down and hold elections.
2012-03-12

A power crisis in Bangladesh prompts the government to order the partial shut-down of natural gas stations in and near Dhaka.
2010-08-12

Police fire rubber bullets to disperse rioting garment workers as protests spread beyond the capital Dhaka to other Bangladeshi cities.
2010-07-31