New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who has overseen her country's world-leading response to the coronavirus pandemic, has tested positive for Covid-19, her office announced Saturday.

Passengers coming to Bangladesh will have to fill up the health declaration form online within three days of their departure, said Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh it its latest circular last night (April 20, 2022).

“At least the pandemic has subsided and people are coming back to the stores. We reserved a moderate collection for Baishakh, especially for consumers who want to celebrate the occasion with fervour,” said Khalid Mahmood Khan, owner of home-grown apparel store Kay Kraft.

After the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation today (April 6, 2022) reported India’s first case of XE variant of Covid-19 infection in Mumbai, a consortium of government-owned labs, which monitor genomic variations of the virus, have said scientific evidence so far does not indicate it to be so, Indian news agencies said quoting official sources.

Bangladesh has one of the highest numbers of child marriages in the world, having been ranked in 4th position globally, according to the latest report published by UNICEF, a UN organization to support humanitarian and developmental efforts for children worldwide.

During a time of pandemic, when our mental health is considerably vulnerable, shoppers heavily depend on online platforms for comfort. Now, there is nothing to freak out about. For starters, you can bring the following changes in your habits to curb your online shopping.

Teacher-student interaction is not the same through our screens.

Shakrain, also known as ‘Poush Songkranti’, takes place to mark the last day of the Bangla month, Poush. It will take place on 14 January this year, with last year’s festivity observed in a limited scale to comply with COVID-19 restrictions. Whether you are hosting for the first time or need a refresher, let us give some pointers to have a fun event this year!

Home-based bridal beauty service is one of the many new fads in wedding culture, which has resulted from the pandemic.

Despite restrictions being lifted and things returning to normal, times are still uncertain with new variants of the virus rising up every other month. With these concerns in mind, there are certain guidelines that you ought to know while travelling outside of the country.

The wedding photography sector was one of the hardest hit industries during the pandemic lockdowns. However, it soon became apparent weddings are inevitable, and the wedding industry revived with a few tweaks. An essence of intimacy was added to every aspect of it.

The constant rise in cases and periodic lockdowns brought a kind of hiatus on Bangladesh’s tourism for more than a year. Fortunately, for the last two months or so, things started looking relatively better as number of cases started reducing and mass vaccination was underway.

Prior to Covid-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was not very well known to the general people. It appeared as a fairly unusual outfit to people when the Novel Coronavirus was first detected.

Like every year, World Photography Day has been celebrated across the globe on 19 August. It has been taken up a notch by KrayonMag, which organised a two-week-long photography exhibition, “New Normal Through My Eyes”, from 1 September 2021.

From school-going children to students pursuing their masters, people from various age groups have been suffering the plight of being a pandemic examinee.

Chinmay Tumbe’s The Age of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World (HarperCollins, 2020) is a timely read, touching upon three historic pandemics and the effects they had on the culture, economy, and politics of the Indian subcontinent.

Dengue is mainly caused by female mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti, which is easily recognised by the white bands on its legs and body. Aedes mosquitoes prefers to breed in clean, stagnant water. Cleaning them up would reduce their breeding grounds.

First it was with the recognition of the film, Rehana Maryam Noor, and then U.K.s Integrity Fashion Magazine accelerated the delight by giving out a unique award: “The International Model Award” to two globally recognised models; our very own Azim Uddula, and Joshua Moon from the U.S.A.

As the novel coronavirus known as Covid-19 spreads rapidly across the world, we now face another dimension of the “globalisation and its discontents” argument.

Recent disease outbreaks, like Ebola and Zika, have demonstrated the need to anticipate pandemics and contain them before they emerge.