2005 in Bangladesh

Incumbents

• President: Iajuddin Ahmed
• Prime Minister: Khaleda Zia
• Chief Justice: Syed Jillur Rahim Mudasser Husain

  Demography

Climate

Economy

Events

• 11 January - Bangladesh registered their first Test Match victory against Zimbabwe.
• 27 January – Veteran politician and former Finance Minister Shah A M S Kibria was assassinated along with two of his aides in a grenade attack at Habiganj.
• 25 February – Bangladeshi U.N. peacekeepers were ambushed and at least nine were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 11 April - A nine-story commercial building collapsed due to a structural failure leading to 73 deaths in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka.
• 23 April – Protests erupt in the city of Bogra against the Ahmadiya community.
• 18 June – Bangladesh pull off one of the biggest shocks in cricket history by beating world champions Australia.
• 17 August – a series of bomb blasts are detonated simultaneously across Bangladesh.
• 3 October - A series of synchronized bombing targeted courts in Chandpur, Chittagong, and Lakshmipur and resulted in 2 deaths and 34 injuries. It was carried out by Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, an Islamist terrorist organisation, that opposed secular judiciary and legal system in Bangladesh.
• 14 November - A bombing of a car transporting Judges to the District Court of Jhalakathi killed two senior assistant judges. Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh claimed responsibility for the bombings. The group, led by Shaykh Abdur Rahman and Siddiqur Rahman.
• 17 November - A Bangladeshi print journalist and bureau chief for Dainik Samakal in Faridpur named Gautam Das was murdered in his office.
• 29 November - Another series of simultaneous suicide bombing of courts in Chittagong and Gazipur in Bangladesh carried out by Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh killed 8 people and injured over 100.
• 8 December - A bomb attack at a meeting of Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi in Netrokona resulted in the deaths of eight people.

  Awards and recognitions

• Matiur Rahman, the Editor of Daily Prothom Alo, was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award.

  Sports

• International football:
• * Bangladesh lost to India in the final of the 2005 South Asian Football Federation Gold Cup to become runner up in the 8 nation tournament held in Pakistan.
• * Bangladesh also became runner up in Myanmar Grand Royal Challenge Cup held in Myanmar.
• Domestic football:
• * Dhaka Mohammedan won National Football Championship while Dhaka Abahani became runner-up.
• Cricket:
• * The Zimbabwe cricket team toured Bangladesh in January 2005 to play two Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the test series 1-0 with one match drawn. This was the first time Bangladesh had won both a Test match and a Test series. They also won the ODI series by 3-2 margin.
• * The Bangladesh national cricket team toured England for the first time in 2005. Bangladesh played two Test matches against England, which the hosts won comfortably. Later Bangladesh took on England and Australia in the tri-nations NatWest Series, where they pulled off a stunning 5-wicket upset victory over Australia, the world champions. In 18 June match, Australia scored 249 in 50 overs and then Bangladesh won with 4 balls to spare, after a century by Mohammad Ashraful. Bangladesh were knocked out of the tournament after three subsequent losses.
• * Later, the Bangladeshi cricket team toured Sri Lanka for three One Day International cricket matches and two Test cricket matches in August and September. They lost all these matches against the host.

  Deaths

• 27 January - Shah A M S Kibria, economist, diplomat and politician
• 4 March - Serajul Huq, academician
• 29 March - Khalid Hassan Milu, singer
• 27 April - Abdus Samad Azad, politician
• 8 May - Rafiqul Bari Chowdhury, cinematographer
• 18 July - Abdur Rahman, actor