The government has already taken a number of measures to save Robi Cropconsidering the lockdown and because the haor region—especially Sunamganj, Sylhet and some northern districts such Gaibandha, Jamalpur—may suffer flashflood.

As COVID-19 spreads, repression and disinformation have generally followed in its wake.

Widely known as a polite and cool-headed person he was an ideal teacher, persuasive enough for innovative application of modern method and tools of education.

On March 23, the University Grants Commission (UGC) had urged all universities to continue academic activities online in accordance with the global response to the coronavirus.

In these times of Covid-19, the big challenge for most of us is how to protect ourselves and our families from the virus and how to hold on to our jobs. For policymakers, that translates into beating the pandemic without doing irreversible damage to the economy in the process.

The tea plantation workers (TPWs) in some 60 tea gardens in Sylhet stopped work for a day or two in the beginning of the countrywide lockdown.

It is unfortunate that Covid-19 came at a time when the conservative or right-wing forces are in power in several of the major countries of the world, including USA, UK, Brazil and India.

Remember that cruel, old joke about the bear and the two men—the one where upon being attacked, one of them, panicky, starts hurrying with the intention of outrunning the grizzly carnivore, while the other, appearing more relaxed, says to the other, “I don’t have to outrun the bear, just you”?

Bangladesh has an elderly population of about 13.5 million, which is increasing by about 4.41 percent every year.

There are now almost three million confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide, and over 200,000 deaths have been reported.

On April 16, as coronavirus continued to spread through the country, the government declared all of Bangladesh to be at risk from the pandemic.

Sanity, said a line in an old movie, exists in every contract. It is so in every social compact that precedes the establishment of any society or social grouping.

Four million students of tertiary education in Bangladesh—in over 5,000 institutions including public and private universities, affiliated colleges, and professional institutions—are in shutdown, which will continue until September if the situation does not improve.

"Abbu, you must go to the hospital right now and please text me when you reach there!” I have been waiting 12 months for that text from my

The Covid-19 infection has taken the world by surprise. Human culture is not accustomed to the idea of exponential growth.

Covid-19 has spread all over the world in a manner that is very unprecedented. Like most of the affected countries, Bangladesh has been compelled to impose a lockdown, resulting in people staying at home and restraining economic activities.

“Ma’am, could you possibly tell me when would the university go back to its usual routine?”

After a month of corona-induced lockdown, Bangladesh’s infection rates and death records are proportionally still lower than many other countries, according to official data.

When COVID-19 reached some of the most protected and powerful people of the world like the resident of Number 10, Downing Street and the best known royal Prince Charles or forced Prime Minister Trudeau to self-isolate, many people described this virus as a great leveller.

I continue to battle with Covid-19 patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).