Monthly Archives: December, 2021

A news item reporting the rags-to-riches story of a Bangaldesh civil servant, Monirul Islam, who became a ‘BCS cadre from a carpenter’ has been going...

The claim that Russia was the first country to recognise Bangladesh as an independent country is false. Bhutan was the first to recognize Bangladesh, not Russia.

A viral social media post claiming that reads "16 students in school infected with Omicron", is being shared by social media users in Bangladesh...

A social media post, claiming that Bangladesh has been excluded from the  list  of countries under the Fulbright Scholarship provided by the US government...

A picture of a man sleeping on the floor at an airport terminal has gone viral on Facebook and TikTok claiming to show former...

Bangladesh has not banned international flights with the rest of the world, and the claim is misleading.

A video clip of Bangladeshi Islamic speaker Mustafiz Rahmani, claiming that the December of 2021 had five consecutive Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays for the...

An image showing a student’s protest, where a banner reads “Unlicensed government, Bangla exemption at the moment” has gone viral on social media websites. We...

News of a week-long nationwide lockdown in Bangladesh has gone viral on social entertainment video sharing medium Tiktok. The government has not taken any decision on a week-long lockdown or public holiday across the country from next Monday in view of the new Omicron variant. Old videos have resurfaced with misleading claims.

Explainer on the new variant of coronavirus Omicron: How dangerous is the new variant of the coronavirus and what we need to understand about Omicron.