August 2026 - The Oniket Bulletin

How far from or close to is Bangladesh from Nepal in terms of environmental disaster?

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On the morning of August 26, 2026, a ten-meter wall of water swept through Timure and Syabrubesi in Nepal’s Rasuwa district without warning. The Bhotekoshi river, swollen by a high-altitude glacial lake outburst upstream, tore apart trade infrastructure, destroyed bridges, flattened police posts, and consumed hydropower facilities that had taken years to build. Writing in…

Sustainability & Urban Planning

Paying the Price of Survival in Dhaka and New Delhi

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For millions of residents, Dhaka and New Delhi promise economic mobility. These massive urban centers have transformed themselves into primary drivers of regional growth, thus attracting families seeking careers, higher education for their children as well as financial security. In Dhaka alone, the population has surged past 25 million people (Onamika, 2026), while Delhi has…

Politics, Democracy & Citizen Rights

English Medium Schools in Bangladesh: A Story That Only Scratches the Surface

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A recent article in the Oniket Bulletin presents English medium education in Bangladesh as a largely successful stream that simply needs better coordination with national institutions. It cites internationally recognized curricula, strong O Level and A Level results, growing presence in multinational companies, and admission to leading global universities as evidence of achievement, while treating…

Education

Exporting Labor, Importing Debt: Rethinking Bangladesh’s Migration Strategy

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Bangladesh sends hundreds of thousands of workers abroad every year, and the remittances they send home, which topped thirty billion US dollars in the 2025 financial year, are routinely presented by politicians and economists as proof that the country’s labor export strategy is working. A 2026 analysis published in The Oniket Bulletin by Sheikh Selim…

Economy & Policy Governance

Bangladesh’s Poultry Sector and the UNSDG Benchmark: How Wide Is the Gap?

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Bangladesh’s poultry industry is often described as a pillar of national food security. Roughly eight million people depend on it directly or indirectly, nearly one million entrepreneurs run poultry-based livelihoods, and the sector produces close to 23 billion eggs and 1.46 million tonnes of meat every year (TOB, 2026). On paper, this scale looks like…

Agriculture

Infant Mortality Across Bangladesh’s Eight Divisions: National Success, Regional Silence

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Bangladesh’s fall in infant mortality is widely celebrated, and rightly so. The national infant mortality rate (IMR) declined from roughly 100 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to about 20.76 in 2024, with a projection near 19.95 in 2025 (UN data). That is close to an 80 percent reduction across three and a half…

Health

Bangladesh’s Young Workforce: Demoralized, and Underdelivering in Skill and Creative Industries

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Across Bangladesh’s advertising agencies, software firms, design studios, and media houses, employers increasingly describe a similar frustration. Fresh graduates arrive with degrees, sometimes strong academic transcripts, yet struggle to originate ideas, sustain long projects, or take ownership of ambiguous problems. The gap is not intelligence. It is preparation. Many young professionals were trained to answer…

Humanity, Social Welfare, Human Rights & Happiness

Commercial Pressure, Political Lobbying, and the Task Facing Bangladesh’s New Information Minister

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How Private Television Became a Business First Enterprise Bangladesh’s private television sector, opened up in the late 1990s and early 2000s, now includes dozens of channels competing simultaneously for viewers, advertising revenue, and political relevance, as detailed in a recent analysis published by The Oniket Bulletin. That same analysis notes that most of these channels…

Media, Publishing & Digital Dissemination

Fifty Years On: Has Bangladesh Truly Honored Its Rebel Poet?

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On the twenty ninth of August this year, Bangladesh marks fifty years since the death of Kazi Nazrul Islam, the man the nation calls its national poet. Half a century is long enough to judge whether reverence has been matched by responsibility. A recent article in The Oniket Bulletin, written by Tanzina Fardoush, reminded readers…

Art, Literature, History & National Heritage

The Familiar Architecture of Local Governance in Bangladesh: Can the new cabinet decision improve it?

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On August 27, 2026, the Cabinet Division of Bangladesh issued a notification assigning 30 ruling party lawmakers, including ministers and state ministers, supervisory responsibility over all 64 districts of the country. Framed as a mechanism to ensure good governance, curb corruption, control drug trafficking, and implement the government’s election manifesto, the decision has generated immediate…

Law & Local Governance