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2014 in Bangladesh

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Centuries:
  
20th 21st

Decades:
  
1990s 2000s 2010s

The following lists events that happened during 2014 in Bangladesh.

Contents

Incumbents

  • President: Abdul Hamid
  • Prime Minister: Sheikh Hasina
  • Chief Justice: Md. Muzammel Hossain

    • January

  • January 5 - Voters in Bangladesh go to the polls for a general election.

    • February

  • February 9 - The owners of Tazreen Fashions, Delwar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akter, hand themselves in to face charges of murder in relation to the death of 112 workers in a factory fire in Dhaka in November 2012.

    • May

  • May 15 - A ferry sinks on the Meghna River in Munshiganj District resulting in at least 12 deaths and hundreds missing.
  • May 16 - The ferry that sank on the Meghna River's death toll increased to 25.
  • May 17 - Officials call off rescue operations as 54 dead bodies recovered with an unknown number of people missing in a ferry disaster in the Meghna River.

    • July

  • July 8 - The United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration rules in favour of Bangladesh in a border dispute with India over the Bay of Bengal.

    • August

  • August 4 - A ferry carrying about 200 passengers capsizes on the Padma River in Munshiganj District.
  • August 5 - Rescuers struggle to locate a sunken ferry in the Padma River leaving at least two people dead and many more missing.

    • October

  • October 20 - A collision between two buses on the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway leaves at least 30 people dead.

    • References

    2014 in Bangladesh Wikipedia
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