The third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic with the Delta variant has started almost simultaneously in Bangladesh and in the UK.

Bangladesh is now one of the world’s fastest growing economies, with high rates of GDP growth that continued even during the pandemic.

On July 6, the Indian government came out with the announcement of a separate Ministry of Cooperation with the avowed aim of realising the vision of “Sahkar se Samriddhi” (“Progress Through Cooperation”).

Between 8am on July 10 till 8am on July 11, a record 230 people had died of Covid-19, while 11,874 had been infected during the same time.

No medical challenge since the Spanish flu outbreak a century back has caused as much global panic and brought the entire world to its knees as the current Covid-19 pandemic.

Sometimes the people of Bangladesh tend to forget a horrible incident because it gets overshadowed by even worse incidents that happen one after the other. The result is that our reactions to all these events gets dulled.

If the world wants to beat back the Covid-19 pandemic and ensure no one is left behind in the recovery, two issues thrown into sharp relief by the pandemic need attention: digitalisation and regional cooperation.

Over the last 50 years, Bangladesh’s journey towards community development has essentially been a result of government, donors, and NGOs coming together to work for the vulnerable people.

Everyone present on the grounds of Nishchintopur Primary School was in uncertainty that day.

Politics, particularly electoral politics, in India is as much about public perception as about the quality of governance. This comes out quite clearly in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s major expansion of his council of ministers and reshuffle of portfolios on Wednesday night.

A couple of months ago, while I was sitting at a station for the bus service in Queensland Australia, I received a phone call.

In a recent cross-sectional serosurvey conducted by icddr,b, antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 (widely known as coronavirus) from blood samples were found in 71 percent and 55 percent of Dhaka and Chattogram city-dwellers respectively (The Daily Star, June 23).

Large social and economic crises are usually followed by increases in human trafficking and exploitation. There is no reason to believe that the Covid-19 pandemic will be any different in Bangladesh.

In May this year, India's veteran tribal rights activist Stan Swamy had told the Bombay High Court—where he was being tried after being arrested under the stringent anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, or UAPA, for his alleged links with Maoists—that he would die if "things were to go on this way".

I am fortunate, indeed blessed, to have been a part of Dhaka University (DU) as a student and a teacher from 1967-75.

Mental health problems affect our moods, emotions and behaviour, impacting our ability to perform daily activities.

Recently, reports of two contradictory developments in the power and energy sector have befuddled readers in Bangladesh.

The Pakistan Army’s genocide in Bangladesh, launched as part of Operation Searchlight on the night of March 25-26, 1971 was supported by US President Richard Nixon, whereas the media and majority of Congress were critical of the administration’s stand on the issue.

One of the most puzzling questions that has yet to be answered is, how did the Myanmar Army get away with such large scale atrocities against the Rohingya? To solve this conundrum, one needs to go back to the military’s deliberate and planned strategy that led to the horrific clampdown that forced thousands of Rohingya to flee the place they called home.

Bangla-desh is facing one of its worst weeks since the Covid-19 pandemic first hit the country in March last year. On Monday, we saw the highest daily death toll since the pandemic began (164 lives lost) and yesterday, we had the highest number of new Covid-19 infections detected over 24 hours (11,525 new cases).