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This was the third explosion in Bangladesh within a week after explosion at an oxygen plant in Sitakunda and another building on Dhaka's Mirpur Road. [4] Similar explosions have occurred in the last two years in Bangladesh, most notably the blast inside a four-storied Moghbazar building that resulted in the collapse and abandonment of the building.
The 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement, also known as the July Revolution, [ d ] was a series of anti-government [ e ] and pro- democracy [ f ] protests in Bangladesh, spearheaded primarily by university students. Initially focused on restructuring quota-based systems for government job recruitment, the movement expanded against what many ...
Murder of Shibli Sadiq Hridoy. The kidnapping and murder of Shibli Sadiq Hridoy (Bengali: শিবলী সাদিক হৃদয়ের হত্যা) is a murder case which took place in Bandarban, Bangladesh, during the monsoon of 2023, when a young Bengali man named Shibli Sadiq Hridoy was kidnapped and killed by several men from ...
The location of Savar (red marker), the site of the building collapse, in relation to Dhaka. Photo of Rana Plaza taken one year before the collapse. Rana Plaza was built in 2006 and owned by Sohel Rana—allegedly a member of the local unit of Jubo League (the youth wing of Bangladesh Awami League, the political party in power).
The incident drew international attention, resulting in protests by the Indian community in Australia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom [87] [88] [89] and the United States. [90] [88] Fresh protests were held on 8 September by the Indian diaspora in solidarity with the victim. Demonstrations were held in 130 cities in ...
Sheikh Hasina Wazed[a] (born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001 and again from January 2009 to August 2024. [3][4] She is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father and first president of Bangladesh. Having served for a combined total of ...
Hinduism is the second largest religion in Bangladesh, as according to the 2022 Census of Bangladesh, approximately 13.1 million people responded that they were Hindus, constituting 7.95% out of the total population of 165.15 million people. [ 4 ][ 5 ] In terms of population, Bangladesh is the third-largest Hindu populated country of the world ...
July 2016 Dhaka attack. 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 ...