But Dhaka Tribune also identified nine other major events or issues that remained talk of the town in 2020. The fast spreading coronavirus claimed 1,796,559 lives and infected 82,328,043 people across the world till Wednesday morning, according to Worldometer. Sinha murderThe most sensational murder of the year was the killing of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan. Babunagari new Ameer of Hefazat-e-IslamA council meeting of Qawmi madrasa-based radical Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh selected the new Ameer and Secretary General of the party on October 15. Incumbent Secretary General Junayed Babunagari and the party's Dhaka city unit President Nur Hossain Kasemi were elected the next Ameer and Secretary General, respectively.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 31, 2020 03:33 UTC