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The Bangladesh genocide ( Bengali: একাত্তরের গণহত্যা, romanized: Ekāttorer Gôṇôhôtyā, lit. '71's genocide', Bengali: বাঙালি গণহত্যা, romanized: Bāṅāli Gôṇôhôtyā, lit. 'Bengali genocide') was the ethnic cleansing of Bengalis, especially Bengali Hindus, residing in East ...
Events. On 8 December 2022, hundreds were arrested, and one protester was reported killed by police. [5] In January 2023, the opposition rallied in Dhaka. [6] On 28 October 2023, two people were killed and dozens were injured in anti-government protests in Dhaka. [7] Protests also occurred in Kishoreganj District. [8]
The tsunami was noticed as far as Struisbaai in South Africa, about 8,500 km (5,300 mi) away, where a 1.5-metre-high (5 ft) tide surged on shore about 16 hours after the earthquake. It took a relatively long time to reach Struisbaai at the southernmost point of Africa, probably because of the broad continental shelf off South Africa and because ...
Bangladesh famine of 1974. Unofficial estimate: 1.5 million. The Bangladesh famine of 1974 began in March 1974 and ended in about December of the same year. The famine is considered one of the worst in the 20th century; it was characterised by massive flooding along the Brahmaputra River as well as high mortality.
Bangladesh co-hosts the ICC Cricket World Cup with India and Sri Lanka. 5 September: India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute. 2012: 18 January: Bangladesh Army claimed to have foiled a coup d'état attempt. 24 November: Garments factory fire at Tazreen Fashion factory in Ashulia kills 117. 2013: 24 April
e. On the night of 1 July 2016, at 21:20 local time, [2] five militants took hostages and opened fire on the Holey Artisan Bakery [3] in Gulshan Thana. [4] The assailants entered the bakery with crude bombs, machetes, pistols, and took several dozen hostages (foreigners and locals). In the immediate response, while Dhaka Metropolitan Police ...
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.It is the eighth-most populous country in the world and is among the most densely populated countries with a population of nearly 170 million in an area of 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi).
2020 Bangladesh protests. The 2020 Bangladeshi protests were protests by hundreds of thousands of protesters against France, [1] [2] government mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and rape. Protests in Bangladesh erupted on 7 October after a video of a group of men attacking, stripping, and assaulting a woman went viral, Human Rights Watch said.