The Covid-19 pandemic took the entire world by surprise, and shook businesses from variegated industries to the core. Amidst a great number of startups and other ventures suffering during the pandemic, new methods had to be employed to keep things afloat.

Over-the-top (OTT) platforms have significantly transformed the way we consume content today. People primarily find these streaming services attractive because they can be accessed at any time from different devices, offering customers variety and control in what they want to watch.

It will not be a stretch to say that releasing new music is easier than ever before—with little to no hurdles if you have a song ready to go, and access to either a third-party distribution app, or a manager who has access to the same.

Bangladesh has witnessed an alarming increase in cases of gender-based violence over the past few years. According to Ain o Salish Kendra, 1,627 women were raped in 2020. Cases of domestic violence, sexual harassment and cyberbullying have also been on the rise.

In today’s climate of fake news and alternative facts, social and political truth can be inconsistent and fragile. Artists, like journalists and activists, need to define the truth and defend it.

The middle of November saw some of the quickest ecommerce website crashes in recent memory. Hundreds of thousands of gamers looking to cop a next gen console flooded the likes of Walmart, Amazon, and other prominent retail chains. The target? A next-gen console.

Billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, according to a government document seen by Reuters.

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Myanmar for a ninth day of anti-coup protests, as the new army rulers grappled to contain a strike by government workers that could cripple their ability to run the country.

Over 1,152 Rohingyas have left Cox's Bazar refugee camp for Chattogram’s Patenga as they are set to be relocated to Noakhali's Bhasan Char.

The Embassy of Vietnam in Dhaka organised a gala programme to celebrate the Lunar New Year 2021.

The United Nations human rights investigator for Myanmar yesterday urged the UN Security Council to consider imposing sanctions and arms embargoes, as 300 elected Myanmar lawmakers urged investigations into the military’s seizure of power.

India has won plaudits for gifting and selling Covid-19 vaccines around the world, but it will have to crank up the pace of immunisations at home to meet its targets.

A day after imposing sanctions on Myanmar generals, the US has declared to immediately redirect $42.4 million assistance away from work that would have benefited the Myanmar government.

Supporters of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi clashed with police on Friday as hundreds of thousands joined nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations in defiance of the junta’s call to halt mass gatherings.

The United States yesterday announced sanctions on the leaders of Myanmar’s junta and several gem companies, and warned it would act further if the military uses violence against protesters.

Myanmar’s new junta leader has called on civil servants to return to work and urged people to stop mass gatherings to avoid spreading coronavirus, as a sixth day of protests against him and his coup spanned the Southeast Asian country.

India and China have begun disengagement of troops on the two banks of strategically-located Pangong Lake along the de-facto border in eastern Ladakh which has seen a tense military standoff between the two sides for nearly nine months.

Myanmar police used force yesterday to disperse protests against military rule and one woman was in critical condition and not expected to survive after being shot in the head with a bullet, a doctor said.

The Junta leader yesterday said Myanmar’s foreign policy would remain unchanged and countries would be encouraged to invest, as thousands of people took to the streets for a third day to protest against the coup that overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government.

Traffic control on all air routes operating in Myanmar’s airspace has been suspended following closure of the country’s air traffic control service.