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The death toll from the ongoing protests in Bangladesh increases to 110 people.
2024-07-20

More than 2,000 shelters are destroyed in a fire in Kutupalong refugee camp, Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh.
2023-03-5

Bangladesh begins administering booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 60 and frontline workers who have been fully vaccinated more than six months ago as the country attempts to reduce the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
2021-12-28

Bangladesh removes a passage from its passport saying that it cannot be used for travel to and from Israel, thereby formally lifting the travel ban.
2021-05-22

At least four people are killed in Chittagong, Bangladesh, when police open fire at protesters during a demonstration against a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
2021-03-26

Two lighter vessels capsize in the Bay of Bengal, near the island of Bhasan Char in Bangladesh. The country's Inland Water Transport Authority report that 13 crew members from one vessel en route to the Narayanganj District from Chittagong are missing, while all 12 crew members from the other vessel were rescued.
2020-08-15

Hundreds of garment workers march in Chittagong, Bangladesh, demanding factory owners pay them last month's wages following delays.
2020-04-18

A gas explosion in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kills at least seven people and injures eight.
2019-11-17

Cyclone Fani, an extremely severe category 4 storm and one of the strongest in recent years, makes landfall at the coastal town of Puri in the Indian state of Odisha. Eight people have been killed in India, according to the Press Trust of India, and hundreds more injured. Severe damage and flooding has been reported. One million Indians and 2.1 million Bangladeshis have been evacuated. A storm surge possibly up to 1.5m (5ft) is expected. The storm, weakening as it travels northeast through India, is expected to reach Chittagong in Bangladesh Saturday.
2019-05-3

At least 50 people are killed in rain-triggered landslides in the Bangladesh districts of Cox's Bazar and Chittagong.
2012-06-27