As deaths surge daily, we are losing innumerable friends and family during the health crisis created by the global pandemic. As a legal professional, I often have to deal with clients facing legal issues with properties and inheritance.

According to a World Food Programme projection, up to 265 million people in low and middle income countries will face acute food insecurity by the end of 2020 as a result of the economic impacts of Covid-19, unless immediate action is taken.

The indigenous peoples of Bangladesh welcome the Bangladesh government’s commitment of additional funding to combat the challenges in the Seventh Five Year Plan.

A couple of days of rain in July reminded us, once again, that the decades old waterlogging problem is far from over.

More than half of the world’s population lived in Covid-19 induced lockdown until recently, which highly disrupted lives and livelihoods throughout societies.

A local newspaper published a report recently on University of Dhaka’s (DU) Tk 869.56 crore budget for the current fiscal year, the largest ever, to support the work of the iconic institution poised to celebrate its 100th year since its establishment in 1921.

For the last several years, the banking sector in Bangladesh has been playing an important role in our USD 300-plus billion economy where banks comprise more than 80 percent of all financing activity.

The injustice against Nusrat Jahan Rafi, who was sexually abused and later set ablaze on the terrace of her madrasa, shook the country.

How does a country come to terms with a blot in its history as dark as the mass murder of intellectuals during the liberation struggle of Bangladesh?

It is now common knowledge that a pandemic, or any emergency for that matter, impacts women and girls differently than men.

Thirty-year-old Ahmed woke up shaking in the middle of the night. He felt choked as he reached for the glass of water beside his bed. He kept gasping for breath, a heavy weight pushing down on his chest.

Like all other sectors and spheres of activity, elections and democracy have become the victims of Covid-19 since its outbreak earlier this year.

The practice of kowtow dates back to the Qin Dynasty, when subjects prostrated in front of emperors to pay their respects. It was also practiced in the courts of rajas and maharajas in India; the projas had to prostrate and put up a demeanour of submissiveness to heighten their expression of respect.

As world leaders attempt to tackle an unprecedented number of humanitarian crises, many of them deepened beyond imagination by the coronavirus pandemic, the United States is throwing its weight around on the global stage to obstruct lifesaving aid efforts.

In recent times, the entire western mainstream media and their affiliated outlets have regularly reported China’s alleged ill-treatment of the Muslim Uyghurs.

Recently, quite a number of reports have been published in both national and foreign media outlets about how two healthcare providers in Bangladesh issued fake Covid-19 certificates. Obviously, the negative coverage has tarnished the image of our nation abroad.

They come early in the morning, calling out to the women of the houses—“Khallamma charta bhaat khaite diben?”—to provide them with a cooked meal.

For all of us who are passing through this pandemic, whether sheltered in our cosy homes or crummy shanties, or on the street and markets serving people, or at the hospitals caring for the ailing patients, one thing is clear: We are not on the decision-making side.

Social research is generally not a priority during a serious crisis. Despite the fact that Covid-19 has dramatically impacted our society and altered the life patterns of a large section of the population, we have undertaken very few studies in Bangladesh to assist informed decision-making during this pandemic.

Bangladesh followed other countries in its effort to contain the Covid-19 pandemic with the initial countrywide lockdown and measures for revamping the health infrastructure.