Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

UKRAINE

KYIV - Following developments after Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - EU foreign ministers to hold videoconference meeting to adopt new measures against Russia over its military attack on Ukraine.

SPORTS

LONDON - Following English League Cup (Carabao Cup) final match between Chelsea vs. Liverpool.

SPECIAL REPORT

Ukrainian community in US angry, heartbroken about Russian attack on Kyiv

By Darren Lyn

HOUSTON, Texas (AA) - Missile strikes, explosions, and gunfire continue to bombard Kyiv, as Russian troops aggressively try to take down the Ukrainian capital.

SPECIAL REPORT

India’s quest for solar energy may have adverse social, ecological effects

By Shuriah Niazi

NEW DELHI (AA) - India expanded its solar capacity 15-fold from 2014 to 2021, with solar power becoming a fast developing industry in the country as part of the renewable energy sector.

SPECIAL REPORT

Cycling: Inseparable part of life in central Turkiye

By Burak Bir

KONYA, Turkiye (AA) - Cycling is mostly seen as a sport either in amateur or professional way that requires allocating particular time, but it is also part of a culture and an inseparable part of life for most people in Turkiye's central Konya province that starts in childhood and continues a lifetime.

SPECIAL REPORT

Dying Indian calligraphy hoping for revival

By Ahmad Adil

NEW DELHI (AA) - In the digital age, when computers have shadowed everything, it is bringing tough times to the centuries-old art of traditional Indian calligraphy.

SPECIAL REPORT

Creator of app-based solar method hoping it becomes irrigation revolution in Bangladesh

By SM Najmus Sakib

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - Solar-based irrigation could bring a revolutionary change in the optimum use of water for crop cultivation in Bangladesh by becoming an alternative to the costly fossil fuel-based conventional method, the developer of a new app told Anadolu Agency.

SPECIAL REPORT

Thousands jobless with end of illegal mining in Uganda

By Godfrey Olukya

KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) - For the last 15 years, Wilberforce Mbulyanga has been driving a Mercedes Benz and living in a posh home he constructed in Muyenga, an upscale suburb of Uganda’s capital Kampala.

SPECIAL REPORT

Erbakan's challenging life story inspires Bangladeshis

By MD. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - The struggling and unbowed life-sketch of former Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan is inspiring many Bangladeshi people, especially the high-educated youth and professionals to stand for justice and humanity.