Note: For the year 2015 average official exchange rate for BDT was 77.95 per US$.
Events
Private university students in Uttara,Dhaka protest VAT on tuition fees.
5 January – Bangladeshi police report that two opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists are shot dead in clashes with members of the ruling Awami League in the town of Natore on the first anniversary of disputed general election.[3]
3 February – In Chuddogram, anti-government protesters firebomb a bus full of sleeping passengers, leaving seven people dead.[4]
22 February – A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River after colliding with a trawler, with the death toll reaching 41.[5]
27 February – Avijit Roy, an American writer and blogger from Bangladesh, is hacked to death by Islamist attackers in Dhaka.[7]
6 March – Customs officers at the Shahjalal International Airport catch Son Young Nam, a North Korean diplomat trying to smuggle an estimated $1.4 million worth of gold into Bangladesh. Bangladesh authorities release him.[8]
30 March – Another blogger, Washiqur Rahman, was killed in the Tejgaon neighborhood of Dhaka in an attack similar to that perpetrated on Avijit Roy. The police arrested two suspects near the scene and recovered meat cleavers from them.[9]
12 May – Bangladeshi secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das is cut to pieces by a masked gang wielding machetes in the city of Sylhet. He is the third secular blogger to be killed in Bangladesh this year.[11]
7 August – A gang of about six men armed with machetes attacks Niloy Chatterjee, a blogger, at his home in the Goran neighborhood of Dhaka and hacks him to death.[13]
14 September – Proposed 10% VAT on higher education was withdrawn by the cabinet in the aftermath of protests by students of private universities in Bangladesh.[15]
31 October – Faisal Arefin Dipan, the publisher of Jagriti Prakashani, was hacked to death in Dhaka. The attack followed another stabbing, earlier the same day, in which publisher Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury and two writers, Ranadeep Basu and Tareque Rahim, were stabbed in their office at another publishing house. The three men were taken to hospital, and at least one was reported to be in critical condition.[16]
22 November – Two top Bangladeshi war criminals are hanged.[17]
Bangladesh participated in 2015 SAFF Championship held in India. They secured their only victory against Bhutan and exited the tournament from the group stage.
After a hiatus of 6 years, the 3rd edition of the Bangabandhu Cup was hosted by Bangladesh in early 2015 with six nations participating.[19]Malaysia U-23 won the third edition, after beating Bangladesh U-23 in the final. This was also the first time the host reached the final of this tournament.
Bangladesh youth team then secured the third place in the 1st edition of the SAFF U-19 Championship, an international football competition for men's under-19 national teams organized by SAFF. The tournament was hosted by Nepal from 20 to 29 August.
Then the Indian cricket team toured Bangladesh from 10 to 24 June.[21] The tour consisted of one Test match and three One Day International (ODI) matches. Because of the series taking place during monsoon season, each ODI had a reserve day allocated.[21] The one-off Test finished in a draw and Bangladesh won the ODI series 2–1.
The Zimbabwean cricket team toured Bangladesh in November to play 3 ODIs and 2 T20s. Bangladesh secured the ODI series 3–0, but the T20 series was tied 1–1.