Home Gallery 2021 At A Glance 2021 At A Glance By The InCAP Desk - December 30, 2021 January Qatar and Saudi Arabia reopened their land border on 4 January, 2021 Violent clashes as Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol Protestors are seen crawling up the wall of U.S Capitol On 20 January of history in Washington, Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States. The Photo shows the inauguration ceremony February Activists hold a portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest outside the United Nations University building in Tokyo after Myanmars military seized power in a bloodless coup Sarah Thomas, the NFL referee made history once again when she officiated Super Bowl LV on February 7,2021, becoming the first female referee Luca Attanasio, who was killed in an ambush with his bodyguard and their driver while taking part in a humanitarian convoy with the World Food Program March Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina welcomed Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India when he visited in Bangladesh on March, 2021 Modi visited Bangladesh to pay tribute to the heroic martyrs of the Liberation War of Bangladesh by placing a wreath at the National Martyrs’ Memorial on the outskirts As of March 19, 2021, a long-dormant volcano in the southwest of Iceland erupted A house is burning when Volcano erupted One-hundred-year-old Ellen Prosser, receives the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from Dr. Nikki in the UK. April A man runs to escape the heat from multiple funeral pyres of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, on April 29, following a surge of cases throughout the country The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), was held on April 25, 2021 As of 19 April, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet In Israel, 45 people are killed and another 150 injured in a crowd crush at a religious festival on Mount Meron. People gather to mourn Israel Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, visits Mount Meron where fatalities were reported during festival May Israel hits the Gaza Strip with airstrikes as Hamas increases rocket fire Bodies of 215 children found buried for decades near Canadian school In memory of 215 missing children Justin Trudeau visits a memorial on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, honoring 250 Indigenous children’s body found in British Columbia June Israeli presidential election is held, and won by Isaac Herzog World leaders meet at the 47th G7 summit, hosted by the United Kingdom, with topics of discussion including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the corporate taxation of multinationals El Salvador is looking to introduce legislation that will make it the world’s first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar July A woman leaves her home threatened by wildfire in Greece as over 130 wildfires, fueled by lightning strikes, burn following a record-breaking heatwave that results in over 600 deaths. At least 52 people were killed by a fire at a food and drink factory in Bangladesh Bushra Shah, a 35-year-old Pakistani, preparing her luggage for attending hajj as hajj ministry ruled announced women can attend hajj alone The postponed Summer Olympics 2020 were held on July 23, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic August Taliban offensive: The Taliban capture Kabul; the Afghan government surrenders to the Taliban Firefighters search for survivors inside a collapsed building as A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti, killing more than 2,100 people September On 16 September, 2021, Inspiration4 launched by SpaceX becomes the first all-civilian spaceflight, carrying a four-person crew on a three-day orbit of the Earth Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at an election campaign stop on the last campaign day before he won, in Canada September 19, 2021 The 2021 German federal election is held, with the Social Democratic Party beating out the CDU/CSU coalition October Colombia’s most wanted drug lord, Dario Antonio Úsuga, whose Gulf Clan controls many smuggling routes into the US and other countries, is captured by Colombia’s armed forces The photo “Hardship of Life” by Turkish photographer, Mehmet Aslan is the winner of the Siena International Photo Awards 2021 November Magdalena Andersson elected as Prime Minister of Sweden Just one hour after the election’s result, she resigned December Novel Prize Winners of 2021 Novel Prize Winners of 2021 Novel Prize Winners of 2021 from different category Ram Nath Kovind pays homage to Bangladeshi independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Bangabandhu Museum in Dhaka On the occasion of the 50th Victory Day on 16th December, spectacular air shows were held in different parts of Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh’s dream, a first ever metro rail, runs during its formal trial from Uttara to Mirpur in Dhaka, Bangladesh