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threatens to cause a humanitarian crisis in this country. According to the World Bank data, in Bangladesh, 15% of workers earn more than 500 taka ($5.90) a day and the economic shutdown sparked by COVID-19 endangers millions of livelihoods imminently. The people could meet their daily expenditures, sent their children to school, and expected that they could save money for an emergency health crisis. The majority of villagers depend on remittances from the cities or overseas. However, for the current global crisis, people are out of work. Income has halted. Based on the report of the Reuters, the COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Bangladesh on March 2020 after recognizing the first three known cases reported on March 7, 2020, by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) of the country. [2] According to IEDCR, Bangladesh, the level of infections remained low at the end of March, although there was a precipitous rise in April. In the week ending April 16, new cases in Bangladesh grew 1155%, the highest in Asia, ahead of Indonesia with 186%. As of June 3, 2020, there are a total of 57 563 confirmed cases besides 12 161 recovered and 781 death cases. The novel coronavirus (COVID-2019) is spreading faster all over the country. The current situation imposes massive pressure on the government of Bangladesh, the general public, and healthcare, and medical providers. [3] The pandemic has brought not only the danger of death from the epidemiologic contagion but also an intolerable psychological burden to the people among the world [4,5] and Bangladesh is not out of the problems. The faster spread of the virus; strict isolation measures; and delays in starting schools, colleges, and universities across the country are anticipated to influence the psychology of university students. [6] Psychological reports indicate the influence of the epidemic on the children, public, older adults, medical staff, and patients. [7-9] However, no thorough research on the psychology of university students facing the epidemic has been conducted to date. Like other sectors, the education sector has been affected severely in Bangladesh. On March 17, 2020, the government closed all schools, colleges, and universities when Bangladesh had eight confirmed cases. Among 853 267 students out of 104 universities in Bangladesh, the number of public universities is 33 with 454 530 students, and the number of private universities is 71 with 398 737 students. The average student The purpose of the study is to find out the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on university students. The study focuses on the university students from different public and private universities of Bangladesh through a set of questionnaires according to the guideline of Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7). The result among 15 543 respondents shows that 44.59% are suffering from severe anxiety, 48.41% moderate anxiety, and only 3.82% mild anxiety. The results highlight that all epidemic-related stressors are positively correl...

Based on the empirical data of heavily polluting companies in Bangladesh from 2010 to 2019, this paper conducts an empirical analysis of the application effect of green accounting in the sustainable development of heavily polluting companies. Among 212 listed companies under Dhaka Stock Exchange, the study discovered that the effective implementation of green accounting has significantly improved the sustainable development capabilities of heavily polluting companies; there is a significant positive correlation between the quality of social responsibility information disclosure and the sustainable development capabilities of heavily polluting companies; the quality of social responsibility information disclosure can be positively adjusted the relationship between the implementation of green accounting and the sustainable development capabilities of heavily polluting companies.heavily polluting companies, implementation of green accounting, social responsibility disclosure, sustainable development | INTRODUCTIONEnvironmental protection goals such as climate change, reusing waste materials, and protecting the planet should be the major concerns of organizations seeking sustainable development. Sustainability and sustainable development are currently viewed as issues of concern by society due to high levels of pollution and the measures taken, which often fail to prove their effectiveness. Sustainable and responsible development must be ingrained into the company's culture, and its policies, actions, and beliefs must all be in line with the company's values (Artene et al., 2020). Hence, companies have begun informing investors of their financial and nonfinancial impacts on social and environmental issues alongside their investment in corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies (García-Sánchez et al., 2020).The punishment of unreasonable development methods of time and the exchange of environment for the economy is the most direct but fiercest counterattack made by the great persecution of the natural environment. Among the textile industry of Bangladesh, the knitwear and ready-made garments make the industry top of the country.Rather than textile industry, pharmaceuticals and chemicals, paper and printing, leather and footwear, steel industry, foods allied, energy, and cement industries have immense contribution in the economic development as well as environment pollution of Bangladesh (Masum et al., 2019;Paik et al., 2017).The environmental pollution incident has sounded the alarm for the sustainable development of Bangladeshi companies. As the country continues to promulgate laws and regulations on environmental protection, and the public pays more and more attention to environmental protection, the standards for their quality of life have also

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