A HUGE fire has broken out at a major international airport – leaving travellers stranded as all flights are halted. Flames engulfed the cargo hold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport

A fire at a garment factory and a chemical warehouse has killed at least 16 people in Bangladesh. Fire officials say several others are injured and the death toll may rise.

Toxic gas and a locked door that barred access to a roof were responsible for most of the deaths in a devastating fire in a Bangladesh garment factory and an adjoining chemical warehouse, a fire official said on Wednesday.

A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has been injured after a mine exploded while he was part of a patrol in the Bangladesh-Myanmar border area in Bandarban. The incident occurred in Naikhongchhari’s Tambru area around 12:30pm on Sunday, according to Col Mohiuddin Ahmed, sector commander of the BGB Ramu unit.

Bangladesh police used teargas, batons, and stun grenades on Friday to disperse protesters near the National Parliament, as tensions rose over the signing of the July Charter. The demonstrators demanded recognition,

Bangladesh has begun a nationwide vaccination campaign to protect millions of children from typhoid, a life-threatening disease that is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

At least ten people were injured in violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement outside Bangladesh’s Parliament in Dhaka on Friday, hours before the July Charter signing ceremony.

Clashes between security forces and Bangladesh's indigenous community protesting the alleged rape of a girl left three people dead in late September. However, a video circulating in Burmese social media posts does not show soldiers shooting at demonstrators in the South Asian country's southeastern region bordering Myanmar -- the footage was in fact taken in the capital Dhaka during mass unrest that ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in 2024.