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2015 in Bangladesh

The year 2015 was the 44th year after the independence of Bangladesh. It was also the third year of the third term of the Government of Sheikh Hasina.

Incumbents

Demography

Climate

Economy

Note: For the year 2015 average official exchange rate for BDT was 77.95 per US$.

Events

  • 5 January – Bangladeshi police report that two opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists are shot dead in clashes with members of the ruling Awami League in the town of Natore on the first anniversary of disputed general election.
  • 3 February – In Chuddogram, anti-government protesters firebomb a bus full of sleeping passengers, leaving seven people dead.
  • 22 February – A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River after colliding with a trawler, resulting in the death toll reaching 41.
  • 25 February – An arrest warrant is issued for Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, after she fails to show up to face graft charges.
  • 27 February – Avijit Roy, an American writer and blogger from Bangladesh, is hacked to death by Islamist attackers in Dhaka.
  • 6 March – Customs officers at the Shahjalal International Airport catch Son Young Nam, a North Korean diplomat trying to smuggle an estimated $1.4 million worth of gold into Bangladesh. Bangladesh authorities release him.
  • 30 March – Another blogger, Washiqur Rahman, was killed in the Tejgaon neighborhood of Dhaka in an attack similar to that perpetrated on Avijit Roy. The police arrested two suspects near the scene and recovered meat cleavers from them.
  • 11 April – Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman is executed for war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
  • 12 May – Bangladeshi secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das is cut to pieces by a masked gang wielding machetes in the city of Sylhet. He is the third secular blogger to be killed in Bangladesh this year.
  • 29 May- PM Sheikh Hasina is rewarded with the title "Deshratna" by "Jatiyo Nagorik Committee" head Syed Shamsul Haq at Suhrawardy Udyan.
  • 8 July – Thirteen-year-old Sheikh Mohammad Samiul Alam Rajon is lynched in the vicinity of Kumargaon Bus Stand, Sylhet, for allegedly trying to steal a rickshaw van.
  • 7 August – A gang of about six men armed with machetes attacks Niloy Chatterjee, a blogger, at his home in the Goran neighborhood of Dhaka and hacks him to death.
  • 25–26 August – 2015 Bangladesh–Arakan Army border clash, The Bangladesh Army fends off Arakan Army intruders near the Bangladesh–Myanmar Border causing the intruders to flee.
  • 6 September – Parliament passes the Financial Reporting Act 2015.
  • 14 September – Proposed 10% VAT on higher education was withdrawn by the cabinet in the aftermath of protests by students of private universities in Bangladesh.
  • 31 October – Faisal Arefin Dipan, the publisher of Jagriti Prakashani, was hacked to death in Dhaka. The attack followed another stabbing, earlier the same day, in which publisher Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury and two writers, Ranadeep Basu and Tareque Rahim, were stabbed in their office at another publishing house. The three men were taken to hospital, and at least one was reported to be in critical condition.
  • 22 November – Two top Bangladeshi war criminals are hanged.

Awards and recognitions

International recognition

Independence Day Award

Ekushey Padak

  1. Abdur Rahman Boyati, arts (posthumous)
  2. Arup Ratan Choudhury, social service
  3. Jharna Dhara Chowdhury, social service
  4. SA Abul Hayat, arts
  5. Mohammad Nurul Huda, language and literature
  6. Kamal Lohani, journalism
  7. MA Mannan, education
  8. Satya Priya Mahathero, social service
  9. Mujibur Rahman Devdas, Liberation War
  10. Faridur Reza Sagar, mass media
  11. Sanat Kumar Saha, education
  12. Pearu Sardar, Language Movement (posthumous)
  13. ATM Shamsuzzaman, arts
  14. Dwijen Sharma, language and literature
  15. Abul Kalam Mohammed Zakaria, research

Sports

Deaths

See also

References