2014 in Bangladesh
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The following lists events that happened during 2014 in Bangladesh.
Incumbents
Events
January
- January 5 - Voters in Bangladesh go to the polls for a general election.[1]
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.[2]
May
- May 15 - A ferry sinks on the Meghna River in Munshiganj District resulting in at least 12 deaths and hundreds missing.[3]
- May 16 - The ferry that sank on the Meghna River's death toll increased to 25.[3]
- 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.[4]
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.[5]
August
- August 4 - A ferry carrying about 200 passengers capsizes on the Padma River in Munshiganj District.[6]
- August 5 - Rescuers struggle to locate a sunken ferry in the Padma River leaving at least two people dead and many more missing.[7]
October
- October 20 - A collision between two buses on the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway leaves at least 30 people dead.[8]
See also
References
- ↑ "Clashes and boycott mar Bangladesh election". 5 January 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ↑ "Bangladesh fire disaster factory owners surrender to police". 9 February 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- 1 2 "Bangladesh ferry sinking death toll at 25". 16 May 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ↑ "54 confirmed dead as MV Miraj-4 ferry capsizes in Bangladesh". 17 May 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ↑ "U.N. tribunal rules for Bangladesh in sea border dispute with India". 8 July 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ↑ "Bangladesh ferry capsizes n River Padma near Dhaka". 4 August 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ↑ "Bangladesh rescuers struggle to find sunken ferry". 5 August 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ↑ "Bus crash kills 30 in Bangladesh". 20 October 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
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