Growing up in a joint family had its perks. For example, there was hardly a chance to get bored. On the rare occasion I did get bored, I vividly remember my mother threatening to make me memorise my time-tables if I complained. It was a much dreaded punishment. It makes me wonder how the children are coping in this pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic is spreading at an exponential rate and policymakers are racing against time to find effective solutions.

A few months ago, before the coronavirus outbreak, I attended a talk in Dhaka by a well-known internationally acclaimed feminist. The house was full, the air thick with expectation. I had heard of her aplenty, seen many talks of her online, and was eagerly waiting to hear her speak.

Bangladesh is celebrated as a development success in South Asia and has outperformed many of its neighbours on social development indicators.

On June 6, Youth Policy Forum’s ambitious series on budget dialogue culminated in its much-anticipated final event, “Youth meets Leaders.” Standing true to the name, six distinguished experts of political and non-political backgrounds gathered to analyse the policy proposals presented by teams of young specialists from YPF.

When WHO declared Covid-19 a pandemic, many organisations immediately called for ideas on what to do as there was no doubt that an economic disaster was looming.

The social distancing measures to contain the spread of the Covid-19 infection have been appropriately called the Great Lockdown, in remembrance of the Great Recession of the 1930s.

As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, the world continues to focus on the economic impact and the mortality and transmission rates of the coronavirus.

This year’s budget clearly needs to focus on addressing the emerging issues and challenges of the current pandemic.

So far, the focus of the Covid-19, commonly known as coronavirus, in every country has rightly been on health issues— expanding testing, tracing the infected, how to deal with infection, and combatting deaths. Issues of disaggregated profiling of its various aspects including the diverse socio-economic impacts were put on the back burner.

A horrified world is watching as the US goes up in flames. An appalling racist murder by police has triggered protests in more than 140 US cities. Rioting, looting, cities ablaze, police brutality, night curfews in major cities—it’s all happening. The federal administration is ratcheting up tensions by unleashing the US military.

A mature tree produces oxygen for 10 people in a year. Trees remove carbon dioxide from the air and release the oxygen we breathe in. Well-established forests and tree plantations reduce the impacts of natural disasters by saving lives and properties.

Well, the Sundar-bans has done it again! As it has been doing for hundreds of years. This time, it took the blow of super-cyclone Amphan and saved us from severe devastation.

The spectre of Covid-19 has descended on the planet so suddenly that almost all spheres of human life have been caught off guard.

As scientists are relentlessly working to create an antidote to fight Covid-19, governments, policy planners, business communities, and economists have started foretelling the economic consequences of a prolonged crisis period.

Due to the pandemic, we are doing a lot of otherwise-unusual things—be it maintaining physical distance in public places,

On this day in 1947, the partition plan of the Indian subcontinent was made public and independence came on 14-15 August of that year.

The year 2020 has brought with it an unprecedented event—Covid-19 has spread across the globe and changed our lives.

Steps taken to combat the coronavirus have severely disrupted public life and have put the livelihoods of millions in jeopardy. The global economy is in deep recession, especially the economies of the developed world; and there is a great deal of uncertainty as to when and how it might end. This is perhaps the deepest crisis human beings are facing after the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Second World War.

As the deadly Covid-19 virus continues to climb the grisly charts, an intense race is already on, globally, to discover the next vaccine, the next panacea.