Major domestic events

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1. Bill passed to take 5-taka note and coin under government jurisdiction (15 November)
2. Nazia, Shahrina become 1st ever female pilots in army (28 October )
3. President inaugurated Air Defense Radar YLC-6 in Bangladesh (11 November)
4. Freedom fighters’ age now below 13 ( 31 July )
5. Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella killed in Bangladesh because he was white (25 October)
6. Justice Md Tofazzal Islam and Justice Md Awlad Ali have become members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. (September 19)
7. Wasfia Nazreen of Bangladesh conquers seven peaks- 18 November
8. Suicide Bomber Strikes at Ahmadi Mosque in Bangladesh (25 December)
9. Dr Yunus made honorary citizen of Bologna, Italy (08 july)
10. Bangladesh brings back Narayanganj seven-murder accused Nur Hossain from India (12 November)
11. Deal signed with ThalesAlenia for Bangabandhu satellite (11 November)
12. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina opens main work of Padma Bridge (12 December)
13. Hand written passport (HWP) would be out of circulation from (25 November)
14. Bangladesh hangs opposition figures for war crimes (22 November)
15. Bangladesh Gets Access To Facebook After 22 days (10 December)
16. Anup chetiea Extradited (11.11.2015)
17. Bangladesh authorities end 17-day house arrest of opposition leader Khaleda Zia (19 January 2015)
18. Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) would sign an agreement of Protocol for Movement of Passenger and Personal Vehicles (PMPPV) (08 September)
19. The parliament on 08 september passed Nuclear Power Plant Bill 2015 aiming to form a company to operate Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna. (08 september)
20. India, Bangladesh exchange 162 enclaves ( 01 August)
21. India to provide $2 bn to Bangladesh, 22 agreements inked, Modi Visited Bangladesh (06 June)
22. India suffer first series loss to Bangladesh, Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman took six for 43 against India in the second ODI in Mirpur on 21 june to go with his 5 for 50 on debut (21 June)
23. 7-lakh new Bangla words in google translate (26 March)
24. Attackers wearing masks and wielding machetes kill Ananta Bijoy Das in latest attack to take place this year. (12 May)
25. 70 dead in Paturia launch capsize, 150 missing (22 February)
26. Bangladesh to get $300 million World Bank credit (09 February)
27. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) resumed recruiting workers from Bangladesh, with lifting the 6-year ban on importing manpower from Bangladesh country, an official statement said today. (1, February )
28. SK Sinha sworn in as 21st chief justice (17 January )
29. Magura baby shot in mother’s womb (23 July )
30. RAB shoots and kills two ‘militants’ in Gazipur ‘hideout bust’ (28 December)
31. Rotten Wheat imported from Brazil (25 June)
32. AL MP’s son Rony fired from his gun on getting stuck in slight traffic snarl, police claim (14 April)
33. Shots allegedly fired by MP Manjurul Islam Liton has injured a nine-year-old boy in Gaibandha’s Sundarganj Upazila. (02 October)
34. Missing Bangladesh Opposition Leader Md. Salahuddin Ahmed Arrested in Shillong (12 May)
35. Myanmar border force opened fire on a Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) patrol team near the Naf river of Cox’s Bazar early, A BGB member was bullet-hit and another one was “abducted” by the Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP). (17 June)
36. Nirob, Bangladeshi boy who died after falling into the sewer, a tragic like Aylan Kurdhi (08 December)
37. 3 Bangladeshi-origin women in British parliament (07 May)
38. Boy dies from terrible injuries after ex-employer pumps air into his body in Khulna (03 August)
39. On July 8, Rajon was beaten to death in Sylhet’s Kumargaon by Kamrul and several others who falsely accused him of stealing a rickshaw van. Later, a footage of the incident went viral. ( 08 July)
40. Hardinge Bridge turns 100 year (04 March)
41. Princeton University Physics Professor M. Zahid Hasan, born and brought up in Bangladesh, electrified the world of physics last month by discovering the elusive massless quasi particle, Weyl fermion, predicted 85 years earlier. (16 July )
42. Bangabandhu’s unfinished memoirs translated in Japanese (02 August)
43. 25 killed, over 50 injured in accident at the incident took place at the Faridpur. (09 April)
44. Bangladesh Pay Scale Gazette 2015 has been published on Dec 15, 2015 by Ministry of Finance (www.mof.gov.bd) for 8th Pay Scale, which has been in effect since July 01, 2015, though the allowances of new pay scale will be paid from July 1, 2016. (15 December).
45. Municipal Polls- 2015 : Irregularities aplenty (30th December)
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