Bangladesh now has a power generation capacity in excess of 21,000 MW.

Ever since the advent of the eagerly awaited vaccine, Covishield by Oxford Astrazeneca from Serum Institute of India, on January 27 this year, Bangladesh became one of the notable countries to roll out its vaccination programme against the novel coronavirus.

How should a country treat its detainees/prisoners, especially in the middle of a global pandemic?

A unique feature of folk performative practices across Bangladesh is the bondona or requisite invocatory prelude, dedicated to the Guru, to Allah, to Goddess Sarasvati, and to other deities of diverse “Pantheons of Gods”, pronounced all in one breath, by the folk performers.

NASA has released a significant amount of footage, video feeds with audio, and reports on the operation of its Perseverance rover since its landing on Mars on February 18, 2021.

Entities under the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology are reputed for flouting the law.

During winter, more often than not, a large part of northern United States is pummelled by an Arctic blast, sometimes severe, sometimes less severe, that lasts for a week or two.

Can journalists be activists? This is perhaps the most troubling question every journalist has to confront while dealing with issues of public interest. Journalism is about assembling and verifying facts, and conveying fair and accurate accounts.

“The fear of climbing the stairs at the healthcare facility made me deliver my two children at home,” said Selina (not her real name), who had one of her children at a nearby healthcare facility. The experience was a “nightmare”, she recalled.

Demonstrating for the third week their determination to force the country’s military to return to its barracks, protesters in Myanmar appear to be learning lessons from a decade of protest in the Middle East and North Africa.

Bangladesh has unique experiences with the term “refugee”. Over ten million Bengalis were evicted from their land by the Pakistani army and had to take shelter on Indian soil in 1971.

A nationalist Turkish television station with close ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dug up a 12-year-old map that projects Turkey’s sphere of influence in 2050 as stretching from South-eastern Europe on the northern coast of the Mediterranean and Libya on its southern shore across North Africa, the Gulf and the Levant into the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Activists are continuing to protest in Dhaka to demand the repeal of the Digital Security Act (DSA), a sweeping and vague law that the Bangladesh authorities are using to arrest critics, including those who speak out over the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have necessitated various medical boards across the globe to begin the emergency usage of Covid-19 vaccines, bringing reprieve and optimism in 2021.

Tobacco farming was introduced to Bangladesh in the mid-1960s in the Teesta silt of the Rangpur region, where tobacco was cultivated on soil meant for growing food crops.

The present government has correctly emphasised the need to develop and expand technical education in the country.

A documentary on Bangladesh, produced and telecast by a Middle East based television channel, seems to have managed to create quite a commotion in Bangladesh lately.

Amanullah is a former Director General of Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) and former Chief Editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS).

The past year is one that few of us will forget. While the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have played out unevenly across Asia and the Pacific, the region has been spared many of the worst effects seen in other parts of the world.

When the Indian subcontinent was pushed into violent communal turmoil and was being partitioned as its consequence, one person firmly stood out as the guardian of secularism, unity and peace. He was Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.