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9 February – Bangladesh wins the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup by defeating the defending champions India in the final. [ 3 ] 11 February – Fifteen Rohingya refugees died, and another 72 were rescued, when a trawler bound for Malaysia sank off of St. Martin's Island in the Bay of Bengal , leading to police to file charges against 19 ...
The AL blamed the BNP for several high-profile attacks on opposition leaders and asserted the BNP was bent on eliminating Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League as a viable force. The BNP and its allies accused the AL of maligning Bangladesh at home and abroad out of jealousy over the government's performance on development and economic issues.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman announcing the six points in Lahore on 5 February 1966. The Six point movement (Bengali: ছয় দফা আন্দোলন) was a significant political campaign in East Pakistan, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, advocating for greater autonomy for the region.
The intake is class 5–140, Class 6-140 and Class 9-60. Students have to qualify in a competitive admission test to be admitted. NGHS only 17% of the applicants who take this test matriculate. [6] Teachers are appointed directly by the Government of Bangladesh through an Associate Teacher Recruitment Examination taken throughout the country.
Bangladesh scored 0.274 on the electoral democracy index in V-Dem Democracy Indices in 2023. [7] The political competition in Bangladesh is limited due to high barriers of entry requiring large amounts of resources, which left only a small segment of the population having the ability to run political campaigns.
At the same time, even though it is a policy-making matter for the government, in the interest of complete justice according to the constitution, the court ordered 93 percent merit-based recruitment in government jobs. On this day, for the first time in the history of Bangladesh, the proceedings of the Supreme Court were held under curfew. [40]
A devastating cyclone strikes Bangladesh. [22] 1990: 6 December: Ershad offers resignation. 1991: 27 February: 1991 Bangladeshi general election, Bangladesh Nationalist party snatches victory. 29 April: 1991 Bangladesh cyclone kills more than 138,000. 1996: 14 May: Over 400 are killed as a tornado strikes northern Bangladesh. [24] 19 May
The Instrument of Surrender was a written agreement that enabled the surrender of the Pakistan Eastern Command in the Bangladesh Liberation War, and marked the end of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 in the Eastern Theater. [7] The surrender took place at the Ramna Race Course in Dhaka on 16 December 1971.