2024 in Bangladesh

The following is a list of scheduled and expected events for the year 2024 in Bangladesh.

It will follow 1430 and 1431 Baṅgābda (Bengali Year). The year 2024 is the 53rd year of the independence of Bangladesh.

January

 * 1 January — Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is convicted for violating the country's labour laws. He and three others from Grameen Telecom are each sentenced to six-months in jail by Dhaka's labour court; and subsequently given one-month bail on the condition of appealing against the verdict.
 * 5 January – Five people are killed in a suspected arson attack on the Benapole Express train in the Gopibagh area of Dhaka.
 * 7 January :
 * 2024 Bangladeshi general election: Voters select members of the Jatiya Sangsad amid a boycott from opposition parties.
 * A fire in the Kutupalong refugee camp destroys hundreds of shelters and facilities and displaces nearly 7,000 Rohingya refugees.

February

 * 5 February: A resident of Bandarban district is killed by cross-border shelling in a spillover effect of the Myanmar Civil War that also sees the entry of an armed Burmese faction into Bangladesh.
 * 29 February: At least 43 people are killed in a building fire in Dhaka.

March

 * 15 March: The Bangladesh ship MV Abdullah along with its crew is captured and held hostage by Somali pirates.

April

 * 10 April: Fifty-five Kuki-Chin National Front militants are arrested by Bangladesh Police in Bandarban.
 * 15 April: The MV Abdullah and its crew is released by Somali pirates after 32 days in captivity.

May

 * 16 May: Nine Bangladeshi youths are named in the prestigious "Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list" an award for young entrepreneurs, leaders, and innovators under the age of 30.
 * 22 May: Awami League MP Md. Anwarul Azim Anar is found killed in Kolkata, India after being reported missing since 13 May. Three Bangladeshis are arrested in connection with his death.
 * 26 May: Seven people are reported killed and two others reported missing across the country due to Cyclone Remal.

June

 * 6 June: 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement started.
 * 19 June: Eight people are killed in mudslides in Cox’s Bazar.

July

 * 2-6 July: Eight people are killed in floods caused by heavy rains across the country.
 * 5 July: The completion ceremony of the Padma Bridge is held.
 * 9 July: Twenty-six people are charged with environmental crimes for the felling of 560 acres of the Sonadia coastal forest for commercial purposes.
 * 15 July-ongoing: 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement: At least 25 people are killed and at least 100 others are injured in nationwide clashes between protesters demanding an end to a quota system in the civil service believed to favor supporters of the government and the Chhatra League of the ruling Awami League and the security forces.
 * 18 July: 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement: Protesters set fire to the headquarters of the state broadcaster Bangladesh Television in Dhaka.
 * 19 July: Police in Dhaka ban all public rallies and protests in the city and impose a nationwide curfew, one day after protestors set fire to government buildings in the city.
 * 21 July: The Supreme Court of Bangladesh orders an overhaul to the quota reservation system at the heart of the quota reform protests, increasing merit appointments in the civil service to 93% and reducing slots allotted for descendants of veterans of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War to 5%, with the remainder going to ethnic minorities, the disabled and transgender people.

Deaths

 * 6 January: Zahirul Haque, 89, footballer (Police AC, Mohammedan SC, Pakistan national team).
 * 16 January: Rezwan Hossain Siddiqui, 71, journalist, director general of Press Institute of Bangladesh.
 * 23 January: Mohammad Rais Uddin, 35, paramilitary officer (Border Guard Bangladesh).
 * 5 July: Ziaur Rahman, 50, chess grandmaster.