Last Christmas break, I took my daughter out to dinner when she flew in to see me in Vancouver.

I have received a phone call from one of my friends, a retired ENT professor in Bangladesh. He informed me that alarmingly a high number of doctors and healthcare workers are getting infected with Covid despite using PPEs.

I was amused to see a recent Facebook status update from my friend, the Indian writer Madhulika Liddle.

The voluntary organisation Bidyanondo is a stirring example of what amazing things goodwill can achieve. It’s youthful founder, Peru-based Kishore Kumar Das, has a richly deserved, devoted following of millions.

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc in the lives of millions with devastating economic and social impacts. Although no country or people have been spared from its rampage, it is being experienced differently in terms of gender, class and socioeconomic situations.

The catastrophic public health impact of the Covid-19 crisis has sent the world reeling, but its full ramifications have only begun to unfold.

The WHO South-East Asia Region is entering a new phase in its pandemic response. In recent weeks, the spread of Covid-19 in the region has slowed, due in large part to the unprecedented physical distancing measures that countries implemented early and aggressively.

After much confusion, the University Grants Commission (UGC) on April 30 provided the directive to hold online classes in all public and private universities.

After the Covid-19 lockdown started in Bangladesh and our university opted for online classes, a student wrote to us. She moved back to her village and did not have her own laptop.

Every day, every moment, a mother gives birth and a new life begins. However, around the world, poor quality and limited access to sexual and reproductive health services and information lead to tragic and preventable deaths and illness among women of childbearing age.

The economic crisis caused by Covid-19 is deepening in Bangladesh every day.

Researchers started looking into sewage and traces of SARS-CoV-2 were found in the Netherlands and Paris wastewater samples.

From a religious perspective, Ramadan has always been a time of self-reflection, restraint and altruism—and given the struggles being faced by daily wage earners and, in reality, a majority of Bangladeshis today, we have a unique opportunity to invest in our faith to collectively tackle the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Almost all communities across the world are now facing the adverse impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Coronavirus is razing the world to the ground, continuing to claim human lives—the latest count exceeds well over 200,000, with the number of infected running over three million.

Lockdown, first instituted by the Chinese government, has become an unprecedented yet effective intervention for prevention of the transmission of Covid-19 throughout the world.

At any other time, if hundreds of refugees fleeing genocide were starving at sea with nowhere to go, there would be widespread condemnation. Unfortunately, the pandemic that has swept across the world has relegated this issue into being a mere footnote in our news.

It is 58 days since the first Covid-19 infection was recorded in Bangladesh. February now feels like a distant memory, even early March.

JRC was one of the few citizens who formed the group called POROSH—an abbreviation of Poribesh Rokkha Shopoth—in late 1990s.

The 2020-21 budget of Bangladesh, under preparation now, could have been exciting. The country was having an unbroken run of 6 percent or higher growth rate for the last nine years.