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2011 in Bangladesh

The year 2011 was the 40th year after the independence of Bangladesh. It was also the third year of the second term of the Government of Sheikh Hasina.

Incumbents

Demography

Climate

Economy

Note: For the year 2011 average official exchange rate for BDT was 74.15 per US$.

Events

  • 7 January – Widespread outrage at the killing of Felani Khatun a 15-year-old Bangladeshi girl, who was shot and killed by India's Border Security Force (BSF), at India-Bangladesh border.
  • 17 February – Bangladesh co-hosted the ICC Cricket World Cup with India and Sri Lanka. The Opening Ceremony of the event was held in the venue Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka.
  • 11 July – At least 40 people, including 38 students, were killed when a pick-up truck carrying them veered off the road and plunged into a roadside ditch at Mayani area of Mirsharai Upazila.
  • 13 August – Acclaimed film director Tareque Masud and his long-time co-worker Mishuk Munier, a cinematographer, a journalist and CEO of ATN News died in a road accident on the Dhaka-Aricha highway at Joka under Ghior Upazila while returning to Dhaka from Manikganj after visiting a shooting location.
  • 5 September – India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute.
  • 16 October – Small share market investors went on a fast-unto-death after forming the Bangladesh Capital Market Investors' Council in response to the bear run in the share market since end of 2010. Opposition politicians declared their solidarity with the protesters.
  • 22 October – The market stabilisation fund (MSF), worth BDT 50 billion ($ 667 million), was conceived by the Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) as a method to increase liquidity in the market and increase share prices, in response to share market scam.
  • December: A planned coup to establish Islamic law in Bangladesh was stopped by the Bangladesh Army. A number of officers including retired ones were arrested.

Awards and Recognitions

Independence Day Award

Bangladesh Freedom Honour

The highest state award given by the government of Bangladesh for foreigners or non-nationals was posthumously conferred on former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi on 25 July 2011. The award recognises her role as an ally during the Bangladeshi war of independence and her capacity to manage such a complex regional war. A Bangladeshi national committee had nominated her for the special honour for her "unique" role in "offering training to freedom fighters and refuge to millions of people who fled the country and building world opinion for Bangladesh's independence". Indian National Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi, the daughter -in-law of Indira Gandhi, received the award from Bangladeshi President Zillur Rahman at a grand ceremony in Dhaka attended by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and nearly 1,000 top dignitaries.

Ekushey Padak

  1. Mosharef Uddin Ahmed, Language Movement (posthumous)
  2. Shawkat Ali, Language Movement (posthumous)
  3. Nurjahan Begum, journalism
  4. Jyotsna Biswas, performing arts
  5. Abdul Haq Choudhury, research (posthumous)
  6. Abdul Haq, language and literature
  7. Amanul Haque, Language Movement
  8. Md Abul Hashem, social service
  9. Mohammed Delwar Hossain, social service
  10. Shaheed Quaderi, language and literature
  11. Ustad Akthar Sadmani, performing arts (posthumous)
  12. Abdul Karim Shah, performing arts
  13. Polan Sarkar, social service

Sports

Deaths

See also

References