February

• 3 February - The port city of Chittagong put on high alert to prevent a bird flu epidemic.
• 8 February - A plague of rats destroy crops in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
• 13 February - The immigration advisory service in Britain warn that restrictions on immigration of Bangladeshis to the UK was leading to shortages in curry houses and having an impact on the industry.
• 19 February - Ekushey Padak
  Ekushey Padak
  Ekushey Padak is one of the highest civilian awards in Bangladesh, introduced in memory of the martyrs of the Language Movement of 1952 that took place on February 21, 1952.-2001:*Shah Abdul Karim...
  
   2008 presentation ceremony.
• 28 February - Ferry accident near Dhaka claims 45 lives

June

• 11 June - Former PM Sheikh Hasina
  Sheikh Hasina
  Sheikh Hasina is a Bangladeshi politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Awami League, a major political party, since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh and widow of a reputed nuclear...
  
   is released on parole.
• 20 June - The Election Commission (EC) announces that polls to four city corporations and nine municipalities will be held on 4 August 2009.
• 26 June - The results of Secondary School Certificate
  Secondary School Certificate
  The Secondary School Certificate, also known as SSC, is a public examination taken by students in Bangladesh, Pakistan and in the states of Tamilnadu, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Goa in India after successfully completing at least ten years of schooling. It is followed...
  
   (SSC) examinations 2008 is published.
• 30 June - The caretaker government increases prices of petroleum
  Petroleum
  Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...
  
   products for the second time during its tenure.

July

• 21 July - At least 21 people are killed and nearly 40 injured when two buses collide on a Bangladesh highway.
• 30 July - The government sets up a truth commission
  Truth commission
  A truth commission or truth and reconciliation commission is a commission tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government , in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past...
  
   that would allow corrupt
  Political corruption
  Political corruption is the use of legislated powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption. Neither are illegal acts by...
  
   businessmen and politicians to avoid going to jail if they confess and refund money obtained illegally.

September

• 3 September - Tareq Rahman, son of former PM Khaleda Zia
  Khaleda Zia
  Begum Khaleda Zia is the former First Lady of Bangladesh , and then Prime Minister of Bangladesh, having served from 1991 to 1996, becoming the first woman in the country's history and second in the Muslim world to head a democratic government as prime minister. She served again from 2001 until...
  
   is freed on bail.

• 11 September - Khaleda Zia is freed from her yearlong detention.

November

• 3 November - The caretaker government
  Caretaker government
  Caretaker government is a type of government that rules temporarily. A caretaker government is often set up following a war until stable democratic rule can be restored, or installed, in which case it is often referred to as a provisional government...
  
   schedules general elections on December 18, 2008.
• 24 November - The Electoral Commission
  Bangladesh Election Commission
  The Bangladesh Election Commission is an independent constitutional body of the nation of Bangladesh that operates the legal functions of Election law in that South Asian county....
  
   reschedules the date for the general election from December 18 to December 29.

December

• 29 December - Bangladeshi general election, 2008 takes place, Bangladesh Awami League secures a landslide victory. Sheikh Hasina becomes PM for the second time.