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An explosion at a chemical fertiliser factory left at least 200 people needing medical treatment after toxic gas spread.

• 23 августа 2016, 16:56

Jubilant crowds celebrated Saturday as Bangladesh and India swapped tiny islands of land, ending one of the world's most intractable border disputes.

• 01 августа 2015, 14:34

Bangladesh and India prepared to swap tiny islands of land, ending one of the world's most intractable border disputes.

• 31 июля 2015, 12:53

Thousands living near the Bangladesh-India border celebrated an historic agreement that will allow them to choose their nationality.

• 08 июня 2015, 09:50

Powerful storms swept Bangladesh at the weekend leaving a trail of devastation in the country's northwest and killing at least 35 people.

• 06 апреля 2015, 15:08

Authorities in Bangladesh have banned local film-makers from giving their movies English titles.

• 03 сентября 2014, 15:38

A Bangladeshi court sentenced eight Islamists to death Monday for a 2001 bomb attack that killed 10 people and wounded scores more during the country's main celebrations for the Bengali new year.

• 23 июня 2014, 21:36

Divers recovered 10 more bodies from a sunken ferry in Bangladesh Friday, bringing the death toll to 22, with scores more feared to have perished, police and officials said.

• 16 мая 2014, 11:32

Six people were dead and at least 19 others were missing after a ferry capsized Saturday when it was caught in a storm in the south of Bangladesh, a government official said.

• 04 мая 2014, 15:07

Most survivors of the Bangladesh factory collapse that killed 1,138 garment workers are still too traumatised or injured to work 12 months after the tragedy, AFP reports according to a survey.

• 22 апреля 2014, 00:23

Bangladesh's newly elected lawmakers took the parliamentary oath on Thursday after an election condemned as a farce by critics, with the country's battling political leaders still locked in a deadly confrontation

• 09 января 2014, 13:58

Bangladesh stared into the political abyss Monday after the ruling Awami League romped to victory in a blood-soaked election which was dismissed as a farce by the opposition.

• 06 января 2014, 11:22

Dozens of polling booths were torched on the eve of Bangladesh's violence-plagued election Saturday as the opposition staged a general strike in a final act of defiance against the "farcical" polls.

• 05 января 2014, 15:48

Bangladesh deployed tens of thousands of troops on Thursday in a bid to contain deadly political violence ahead of elections next month which are being boycotted by the opposition.

• 26 декабря 2013, 15:37

Kazakhstan Secretary of State Marat Tazhin has accepted the credentials from Ambassadors of Denmark, Uruguay. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bangladesh, Philippines, Zambia, Nigeria and Fiji.

• 27 ноября 2013, 18:59

Bangladesh's top court Tuesday sentenced to death a senior Islamist opposition official for murder during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.

• 17 сентября 2013, 16:59

Bangladesh began cleaning up on Friday after a killer cyclone wrecked thousands of homes along its coast while breathing a sigh of relief that the damage was not much worse.

• 17 мая 2013, 18:13

A cyclone ripped into the Bangladeshi coast on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of people hunkered down in evacuation shelters including in a region of Myanmar torn by communal unrest.

• 16 мая 2013, 12:15

Bangladeshi doctors treating a "miracle" survivor pulled from ruins of a collapsed building after 17 days said Saturday she was doing "great" and had been reunited with her family.

• 11 мая 2013, 19:10

The death toll from last month's collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh rose past 1,000 Friday as piles of bodies were found in the ruins of a stairwell where victims had sought shelter.

• 10 мая 2013, 14:31