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2016 in Bangladesh

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Centuries:
  
20th 21st

Decades:
  
1990s 2000s 2010s

The following lists events that happened during 2016 in the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

Contents

Incumbents

  • President: Abdul Hamid
  • Prime Minister: Sheikh Hasina
  • Chief Justice: Surendra Kumar Sinha

    • January

  • 1 January - 21st Dhaka International Trade Fair was inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

    • February

  • 1 February - ‍
  • SSC and equivalent exams start.
  • Amar Ekushey Granthamela-2015 begins on the Bangla Academy premises and extending into the Suhrawardy Udyan in the Dhaka.
  • 4 February - ‍Hackers breached into the Bangladesh Bank's system and managed to transfer $101 million to entities in the Philippines and Sri Lanka from the bank's account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

    • July

  • 29 people are killed in a terror attack in Dhaka.

    • Game

  • 8 January - Bangabandhu Gold Cup starts Shamsul Huda Stadium in Jessore.
  • 22 January - Bangabandhu Gold Cup Finale was held at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka.

    • Deaths

  • 22 January - Khandakar Nurul Alam, National Film Award-winning music artist.
  • 25 February - Anamul Haque Mostofa Shahid, Former Minister of Social Welfare.
  • 12 March - Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and a freedom fighter.
  • 23 April - A. F. M. Rezaul Karim Siddique, professor at the University of Rajshahi.
  • 25 April - Xulhaz Mannan, United States embassy employee and LGBT activist.

    • References

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