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From Concrete to Code: How Bangladesh and Japan Can Build a Lasting Digital Future

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From Concrete to Code: How Bangladesh and Japan Can Build a Lasting Digital Future

Few partnerships have shaped Bangladesh’s development as quietly and consistently as the one with Japan. Long recognized as one of the country’s largest development partners, Tokyo has historically financed the physical arteries of the economy, from roads and power plants to the Dhaka Metro Rail and the Matarbari deep seaport. Today, that relationship is shifting…

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Connecting the Next Hundred Million: Bangladesh’s Telecom Infrastructure at a Crossroads

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Connecting the Next Hundred Million: Bangladesh’s Telecom Infrastructure at a Crossroads

This article assesses the current state of telecommunication infrastructure in Bangladesh, identifies the main gaps in its physical and technological foundations, and recommends the essential steps the telecommunications ministry should take to close them. Bangladesh has one of South Asia’s largest mobile markets. At the end of June 2026 it had about 189.8 million active…

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Strong Contestants, Thin Pipeline: A Critical Review of Bangladesh in Programming Contests

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Strong Contestants, Thin Pipeline: A Critical Review of Bangladesh in Programming Contests

This article reviews Bangladesh’s performance in regional and international programming contests, examines the weaknesses behind the results, and proposes government steps that would improve performance and turn high performing programmers into a foundation for a stronger national programming industry. Bangladesh has built a genuine culture of competitive programming. Teams from public and private universities routinely…

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Robotics on the Periphery: Bangladesh’s Strategic Opening in a Contested Technology

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Robotics on the Periphery: Bangladesh’s Strategic Opening in a Contested Technology

Robotics has quietly become a marker of technological sovereignty in today’s global order, shaping trade ties, defense postures, and industrial competitiveness well beyond factory efficiency. For Bangladesh, known internationally mainly for garment exports and labor migration, stepping into this space carries geopolitical weight beyond simple economic diversification. India and China have placed robotics and automation…

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When the Planet Wobbles: What NASA’s Discovery Means for a Delta Nation

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When the Planet Wobbles: What NASA’s Discovery Means for a Delta Nation

Somewhere beneath our feet, the planet is quietly shifting its balance. NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have refined a method for tracking Earth’s centre of mass, the point around which its gravitational pull is centered, finding it moves several millimetres yearly as water, ice, and air redistribute globally. Snow over North America nudges…

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Before the Alien Lands: What Bangladesh Still Needs to Get Right on AI

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Before the Alien Lands: What Bangladesh Still Needs to Get Right on AI

When Bill Gates told Reuters recently that no government on Earth is genuinely prepared for what artificial intelligence is poised to unleash on society, he wasn’t singling out any one nation for criticism. He was pointing to a structural truth that technologists in this space have long recognized: policy has spent years racing to keep…

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Gas Numbers on the Floor of Parliament: How the Government and the Opposition Compare

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Gas Numbers on the Floor of Parliament: How the Government and the Opposition Compare

Bangladesh’s gas crisis has become a recurring fixture of Jatiya Sangsad debates in 2026, and the numbers presented by the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources deserve a closer, technical look against what the opposition has offered in response. This article presents a technical brief on the accuracy of the proposals. The Government’s Figures…

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Where is Atomic Research in Bangladesh?

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Where is Atomic Research in Bangladesh?

Bangladesh’s arrival in the community of nuclear energy producing nations came in April 2026, when fuel loading began at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, a genuinely historic turning point that made the country the 33rd in the world to generate electricity from atomic energy. Yet this milestone also throws into sharp relief how underdeveloped the…

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Bangladesh’s Failure to Capture the Regional Tech Innovation Market

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Bangladesh’s Failure to Capture the Regional Tech Innovation Market

South Asia has produced genuine technology success stories over the past two decades, and Bangladesh is largely absent from that list. India built a globally competitive software services industry, then layered a homegrown startup ecosystem on top of it, producing companies with real international reach in payments, logistics, and enterprise software.  Sri Lanka, despite a…

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AI Research and its Direction in Bangladesh: The importance of Social and Mental Health.

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AI Research and its Direction in Bangladesh: The importance of Social and Mental Health.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping life in Bangladesh, from healthcare and agriculture to education and governance. Yet this transformation carries underexamined risks. As AI infuses daily routines, it threatens to erode cognitive autonomy and intensify mental health vulnerabilities, even as the country’s fledgling data protection framework struggles to contain the informational fallout.  The convergence of…

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