2019 in Bangladesh explained

Events of 2019 in Bangladesh.The year 2019 is the 48th year after the independence of Bangladesh. It is also the first year of the fourth term of the government of Sheikh Hasina.

Incumbents

• President: Mohammad Abdul Hamid
• Prime Minister: Sheikh Hasina
• Chief Justice: Syed Mahmud Hossain
• Speaker of Jatiya Sangsad: Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury

Demography

Population, total

163,046,173
Population density (per km^2)	1252.6
Population growth (annual %)	1.0%
Male to Female Ratio (every 100 Female)	102.4
Urban population (% of total)	37.4%
Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)	17.9
Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)	5.5
Mortality rate, under 5 (per 1,000 live births)	31
Life expectancy at birth, total (years)	72.6
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)	2.0

Economy

National Income

	Current US$	Current BDT	% of GDP
GDP	$302.6 billion	BDT25.4 trillion
GDP growth (annual %)	8.2%
GDP per capita	$1,855.7	BDT155,936
Agriculture, value added	$38.4 billion	BDT3.2 trillion	12.7%
Industry, value added	$89.7 billion	BDT7.5 trillion	29.6%
Services, etc., value added	$159.9 billion	BDT13.4 trillion	52.8%
Balance of Payment
	Current US$	Current BDT	% of GDP
Current account balance	style="text-align: right;"	-$2.9 billion		style="text-align: right;"	-1.0%
Imports of goods and services	$64.2 billion	BDT5.5 trillion	21.4%
Exports of goods and services	$44,961.0 million	BDT3.9 trillion	15.3%
Foreign direct investment, net inflows	$1,908.0 million		0.6%
Personal remittances, received	$18,363.9 million		6.1%
Total reserves (includes gold) at year end	$32,696.9 million
Total reserves in months of imports	5.9

Note: For the year 2019 average official exchange rate for BDT was 84.45 per US$.

Events

• 3 January - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the ruling party Bangladesh Awami League takes oath for the 3rd consecutive term after victory at the 11th general election.^[1]
• 20 February - 67 victims are killed and approximately 40 injured when fire breaks out in the Chowk Bazaar area of Old Dhaka.^{[2] [3]}
• 25 February - An aircraft hijacker attempting to hijack a plane in Chittagong Airport is gunned to death in a rescue operation thus saving the plane carrying 142 passengers from being hijacked.^[4]
• 28 February -
  • Atiqul Islam elected as the mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation.
  • Fire broke out in Bhashantek slum.^[5]
• 11 March - DUCSU election held after 28 years.
• 19 March - 7 people including 4 law enforcement officials were shot dead in Rangamati district during violence in local elections. The army was deployed in the area to bring the situation under control.^[6]
• 28 March - FR Tower fire kills at least 19 people and more 70+ injured.^[7]
• 30 March - The fourth fire of the year broke out on DNCC Market.^[8]
• 3 April - Two Bangladeshis Hussain Elius and Abdullah Al Morshed featured in the honorary internationally acclaimed magazine Forbes.^[9]
• 18 April - The year's fifth notable fire breaks out at a market in Malibagh area. Due to better preparations the fire was brought under control quicker than the previous fires. No deaths were reported.^[10]
• 1 July to 31 August - Dengue outbreak in Bangladesh. Over 20,000 people infected by the mosquito-borne disease in all 64 districts since July.^{[11] [12]} Improper cleansing of dirty water bodies have been blamed for high numbers of mosquito breeding. By August the number of infections crossed 50,000.^{[13] [14]}
• 24 September - Various illegal casinos were raided across the country by the police force, in an effort to stop gambling which is banned in Bangladesh. Numerous gambling organizers were detained and taken to custody by the police.^[15]
• 7 October: A second year student of electrical and electronic engineering department of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), was tortured and then killed by BUET's Chhatra League leaders inside BUET's Sher-e-Bangla Hall.^{[16] [17]}
• 20–22 October: Riots in Bhola after police opened fire on protesters protesting against a Facebook post criticizing Islam. 4 protesters killed.^[18]
• 10 November - Cyclone Bulbul killed 17 people & 14 districts were heavily affected.
• 13 November - A train accident kills 20 people.^{[19] [20]}
• 17 November - 7 people killed in a gas explosion in Chittagong.^[21]
• 12–13 December - The Keraniganj factory fire kills in total 12 people.^[22]

Awards and recognitions

Independence Day Award

Thirteen people and an organization were awarded.^{[23] [24]}

Recipients	Area	Note
	independence and liberation war	posthumous
	independence and liberation war	posthumous
	independence and liberation war
	independence and liberation war
	independence and liberation war
	independence and liberation war	posthumous
	independence and liberation war	posthumous
	independence and liberation war	posthumous
	medical science
	social service
	culture
	literature
Haseena Khan	research and training
Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA)	science and technology

Ekushey Padak

1. Halima Khatun (posthumous - Language Movement)
2. Ghulam Arieff Tipoo (language Movement)
3. Monowara Islam (Language Movement)
4. Azam Khan (posthumous - music)
5. Subir Nandi (music)
6. Khairul Anam Shakil (music)
7. Liaquat Ali Lucky (art)
8. Suborna Mustafa (art)
9. Lucky Enam (art)
10. Sayeeda Khanam (photography)
11. Jamal Uddin Ahmed (fine art)
12. Khitindra Chandra Baishya (War of Liberation)
13. Biswajit Ghosh (research)
14. Mahbubul Haque (research)
15. Pranab Kumar Barua (education)
16. Harishankar Jaladas (language and literature)
17. Moinul Ahsan Saber (language and literature)
18. Anwara Syed Haq (language and literature)
19. Ashim Saha (language and literature)
20. Imdadul Haq Milan (language and literature)
21. Rizia Rahman (language and literature)

Sports

• 18 May - Bangladesh wins the tri-nations ODI Cricket series against West Indies and Ireland.^[25]
• 5 July - Bangladesh leaves the 2019 Cricket World Cup after losing to Pakistan in their game at the tournament.^{[26] [27]}
• 1–10 December - Bangladesh archers Ety Khatun and Roman Sana won gold medals winning all the 10 archery events (both individual, and team events) in the 2019 South Asian Games.^[28]

Deaths

• 3 January - Sayed Ashraful Islam, politician
• 22 January - Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul, lyricist, composer and music director
• 15 February - Al Mahmud, poet, novelist, and short-story writer
• 28 February - Shah Alamgir, journalist, DG of PIB
• 1 March - Polan Sarkar, social activist
• 23 March - Shahnaz Rahmatullah, singer (born 1952)^[29]
• 6 April - Tele Samad, Bangladeshi film actor^[30]
• 14 July – Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Bangladeshi politician, 11th President of Bangladesh (b. 1930)^[31]
• 16 August - Rizia Rahman, novelist (b. 1939)^[32]
• 4 November - Sadeque Hossain Khoka, former mayor of Dhaka (b. 1952)^[33]
• 20 December - Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC

See also

• 2010s in Bangladesh
• List of Bangladeshi films of 2019
• Timeline of Bangladeshi history

Notes and References

1. News: 11th parliament takes oath . Dhaka Tribune.
2. News: Gupta . Swati . Regan . Helen . 67 dead in Dhaka fire that ripped through apartment blocks . CNN . 21 February 2019.
3. News: Chawkbazar Tragedy: National mourning today . The Daily Star . 25 February 2019.
4. News: Biman hijacker a criminal of N'ganj, Rab says . The Daily Star.
5. News: Fire at Bhashantek slum doused, no casualties . Dhaka Tribune.
6. News: 7 shot dead in Rangamati . 19 March 2019 . The Daily Star . 28 April 2019.
7. News: Manik . Julfikar Ali . At Least 19 Die in Office Tower Fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh . 28 March 2019 . The New York Times . 28 March 2019.
8. News: DNCC Market fire: Fire shatters Yusuf's livelihood yet again . 30 March 2019 . The Daily Star . 28 April 2019.
9. News: 2 Bangladeshis on Forbes 30 Under 30 list . 3 April 2019 . The Daily Star . 28 April 2019.
10. News: Malibagh kitchen market fire under control . 18 April 2019 . The Daily Star . 28 April 2019.
11. News: Dayaram . Sareena . Pokharel . Sugam . Bangladesh hit by worst dengue outbreak on record . CNN.
12. News: Dengue now in 61 districts . 31 July 2019 . The Daily Star.
13. News: Dengue cases to hit 50,000-mark in Bangladesh . https://web.archive.org/web/20190816212113/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-08/17/c_138314792.htm . dead . 16 August 2019 . Xinhua News Agency.
14. News: DGHS: 1,157 more hospitalized for dengue in 24hrs . 28 August 2019 . Dhaka Tribune.
15. News: Casinos On Club Premises: Everybody knew, nobody opposed . 24 September 2019 . The Daily Star.
16. News: Abrar Fahad: Killing of Bangladesh student triggers protests . BBC News . 20 December 2019.
17. News: 9 held over Buet student Abrar murder . The Daily Star . 20 December 2019.
18. News: Gupta . Swati Gupta . Regan . Helen . Four dead in Bangladesh riot over Facebook post . CNN.
19. News: 16 killed as two trains collide in Brahmanbaria . 12 November 2019 . Dhaka Tribune.
20. News: 'Turna Nishitha drivers were sleeping during Brahmanbaria crash' . Prothom Alo.
21. News: 7 die as wall collapse in gas explosion in Chittagong . 17 November 2019 . Dhaka Tribune.
22. News: Death toll from Keraniganj factory fire reaches 12 . 12 December 2019 . The Daily Star.
23. News: 13 to get Independence Award . 10 March 2019 . The Daily Star . en . 2019-03-12.
24. News: Martyr Shawakat Ali nominated for Independence Award . UNB . en . 2019-03-13.
25. News: Bangladesh win tri-nation series final . 17 May 2019 . The Daily Star.
26. News: 'Feel sorry for Shakib' . 6 July 2019 . The Daily Star.
27. News: Bangladesh cricket -- will there be accountability? . 7 July 2019 . The Daily Star.
28. News: Ety, Sana complete Bangladesh's clean sweep in archery . 9 December 2019 . The Daily Star.
29. News: Celebrated singer Shahnaz Rahmatullah dies at 67 . bdnews24.com . 24 March 2019.
30. News: bn:কৌতুক অভিনেতা টেলি সামাদ আর নেই . http://www.ittefaq.com.bd/entertainment/43428/%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%87 . The Daily Ittefaq . bn . 6 April 2019.
31. News: Former Bangladesh military dictator Ershad dies at 89 . 14 July 2019 . France 24.
32. News: Novelist Rizia Rahman passes away . UNB . 16 August 2019.
33. News: BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka dies . Dhaka Tribune . 4 November 2019.