Portal:Bangladesh/News archive/2010


 * July 10: Bangladesh cricket team scored their first victory over England in any format of cricket when they defeated the world Twenty20 champions by five runs in Bristol in the 2nd ODI during their England Tour.


 * June 3: At least 116 people are killed and more than 100 injured in a large fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh.


 * April 17: A severe storm  strikes Bangladesh and eastern India, killing more than 100 people and destroying over 50,000 homes.


 * April 8: The Bangladeshi army distributes drinking water among more than 12 million people in Dhaka as fears grow over the city's water crisis. (Arab News)


 * April 8: 29 paramilitary troops are convicted of mutiny and imprisoned for up to seven years at a Bangladeshi tribunal. (Arab News)


 * March 24: Tiny South Talpatti Island off the coast of Bengal disappears, washed away thirty years after the mud flat island was created by delta currents, ending the Indian and Bangladeshi dispute over the territory. (BBC) (The Times of India) (Los Angeles Times) (Miami Herald)


 * February 25: A fire at the Garib & Garib Sweater Factory clothes factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh kills at least 18 people and injures more than 50 others. (BBC)