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GETTY Onlookers gather as Bangladesh Air Force personnel recover debris while inspecting the crash site

Death toll in Bangladesh fighter jet crash rises to 27

At least 27 people were killed after a Bangladesh Air Force training jet crashed into a college and school campus in Dhaka, officials said, with 88 people, including children, being treated in hospital.

World • 22 Jul

Muhammad Yunus (C) is escorted by Emirati security personnel as he walks at the Dubai International Airport before boarding his flight to Dhaka

Bangladesh set for interim govt after weeks of protests

Bangladesh is set to get a new, interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus later today, after weeks of tumultuous student protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India.

World • 08 Aug 24

Garment factory workers return to work in Dhaka

Bangladesh garment factories reopen after protests

Garment factories in Bangladesh, forecast to account for 90% of the country's exports, reopened today, hoping to swiftly resume full operations after production was disrupted by violent protests that ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina this week.

Business • 07 Aug 24

Muhammad Yunus (C) addresses the media at the Special Judge Court in Dhaka on 12 June 12

Yunus urges Bangladeshis to stay calm and rebuild country

Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus, who is set to lead an interim government after prime minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted, called for calm and urged people to use the opportunity to build a better nation.

World • 07 Aug 24

Thousands of people pictured outside parliament house in Dhaka following the resignation of Sheikh Hasina over the weekend

Bangladesh Nobel winner Yunus to form govt after PM flees

Bangladesh Nobel winner Muhammad Yunus has said he is ready to head a caretaker government, a day after the military took control as mass protests forced longtime ruler Sheikh Hasina to flee.

Bangladesh • 06 Aug 24

Bangladesh army personnel stand guard during a curfew following clashes between police and protesters

Military takes over in Bangladesh as prime minister flees

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country, as more people were killed in some of the worst violence since the birth of the South Asian nation more than five decades ago.

World • 05 Aug 24

Police use tear gas to disperse student protestors in Bogura

At least 91 killed as clashes rock Bangladesh

At least 91 people were killed and hundreds injured in clashes in Bangladesh as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse tens of thousands of protesters calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign.

Bangladesh • 05 Aug 24

Bangladesh army personnel stand guard near the parliament house amid a curfew following clashes between police and protestors

Number of arrests amid Bangladesh unrest reaches 2,500

The number of arrests in days of violence in Bangladesh has passed the 2,500 mark, according to a tally, after protests over employment quotas sparked widespread unrest.

World • 23 Jul 24

Bangladeshi soldiers patrol the streets to disperse the anti-quota protesters in Dhaka

Bangladesh court scraps most job quotas amid unrest

Bangladesh's Supreme Court has scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that have sparked student-led protests in which at least 114 people have been killed in the south Asian country, local media has reported.

World • 22 Jul 24

A government curfew went into effect at midnight and the premier's office asked the military to deploy troops

Bangladesh army out in force as police fire on protesters

Soldiers are patrolling Bangladeshi cities to quell growing civil unrest sparked by student demonstrations, with riot police firing on protesters who defied a government curfew.

World • 22 Jul 24

Hundreds of protesters demanding reform of civil service hiring rule overwhelmed riot police who had fired at them with rubber bullets

32 dead, 'near-total' internet shutdown in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has experienced a "near-total" internet shutdown, outage monitor Netblocks said, following escalating student protests that killed at least 32 people.

World • 18 Jul 24

The entire building, home to several other restaurants, was soon engulfed by flames that took fire crews two hours to bring under control

Safety lapses blamed as Bangladesh fire toll reaches 46

Glaring safety lapses were responsible for a restaurant blaze that killed 46 people in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, with more deaths likely among those rushed to hospital in critical condition, firefighters had said.

World • 01 Mar 24

Firefighters work to extinguish the blaze

At least 43 killed in Bangladesh building fire

At least 43 people have been killed and dozens injured after a fire blazed through a seven-storey building in an upscale neighbourhood in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, health authorities have said.

World • 29 Feb 24

Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh's prime minister, speaking at the UN in September last year

Bangladesh's PM Sheikh Hasina wins re-election

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won re-election for a fifth term Sunday, officials said, following a boycott led by an opposition party she branded a "terrorist organisation".

World • 07 Jan 24

Parts of India saw temperatures above 44 degrees Celsius in mid-April, with at least 11 deaths near Mumbai attributed to heat stroke on a single day

Climate change: Asia heatwaves '30 times more likely'

Climate change has made record-breaking deadly heatwaves in Bangladesh, India, Laos and Thailand last month at least 30 times more likely, according to a new study.

Climate Change • 17 May 23

Local residents check the damages after Cyclone Mocha's crashed ashore, in Kyauktaw in Myanmar's Rakhine state

Cyclone Mocha: Deadly storm hits Bangladesh and Myanmar

Cyclone Mocha crashed through Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh today, sparing sprawling refugee camps but bringing a storm surge to swathes of western Myanmar where communications were largely cut off.

World • 14 May 23

Cyclone Mocha was packing winds of up to 220 kilometres per hour, according to India's meteorological office

Major cyclone forecast to hit Myanmar and Bangladesh

Thousands of people have fled from Myanmar's west coast and officials in neighbouring Bangladesh are racing to evacuate Rohingya refugees as the most powerful cyclone in the region for over a decade churned across the Bay of Bengal.

Asia • 13 May 23

People shelter at a monestary in Sittwe, Myanmar ahead of the expected arrival of the weather system

World's largest refugee camp threatened by cyclone

Tropical Cyclone Mocha has intensified to become "very dangerous", the World Meteorological Organization said, warning of violent winds, floods and possible landslides in Bangladesh that could hit the world's biggest refugee camp.

World • 12 May 23

A protest was held at the site where the building once stood in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka

Protests held 10 years after Bangladesh factory tragedy

Hundreds of workers in Bangladesh shouted slogans for justice and survivors wept at the ruins of a factory that made clothes for Western shoppers and collapsed 10 years ago killing more than 1,130 people

World • 24 Apr 23

Heavy rain swept across Bangladesh, leaving streets in the capital Dhaka flooded

1m people seek shelter as cyclone hits Bangladesh

At least 16 people have died after a cyclone slammed into Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of about a million people from their homes, officials said.

World • 25 Oct 22

People prepare by collecting mud at the remote southern coastal area of Patharghata in Barguna district

Bangladesh evacuates 250,000 people ahead of cyclone

Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from the path of a cyclone careening towards densely populated, low-lying Bangladesh, according to officials.

World • 24 Oct 22

A residential area in Dhaka, Bangladesh in August, during a load-shedding power outage period (file image)

Bangladesh plunged into darkness by grid failure

At least 130 million people in Bangladesh were without power this afternoon after a grid failure caused widespread blackouts, the government's power utility company has said.

World • 04 Oct 22

About 5.5 million people have been displaced, of which about 3.7 million are staying in government-run makeshift shelters

Efforts to help millions stranded in South Asia floods

Authorities in Bangladesh have intensified efforts to deliver food and drinking water to millions of people struggling after heavy rain unleashed catastrophic flooding across a quarter of the country.

World • 22 Jun 22

Bangladesh and India have experienced increasing extreme weather in recent years, causing large-scale damage

Monsoon floods impact millions in Bangladesh and India

At least 25 people have been killed by lightning or landslides over the weekend in Bangladesh, while at least 17 were killed in floods in neighbouring India.

World • 20 Jun 22

Relentless downpours have inundated vast stretches of the country's northeast

59 dead and millions stranded in Bangladesh floods

Monsoon storms in Bangladesh have killed at least 41 people and unleashed devastating floods that left more than four million others stranded, officials said.

World • 18 Jun 22