Bangladesh Policy Outlook – A Weekly Publication of the Oniket Research Group CIC
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…
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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…
This article assesses whether the newly operational Invest Bangladesh Authority has addressed the institutional risks identified by The Oniket Bulletin (TOB) in its 16 July 2026 critique, Investment Agency Merger in Bangladesh: Too Big to Fail? TOB accepted the case for administrative consolidation but warned that a mega-authority could reproduce the regulatory maze behind a…
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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Bangladesh is struggling for breath. When Summit LNG Terminal resumed supplying the national grid on the evening of 14 August 2026, starting at roughly 110 million cubic feet per day and expected to reach around 550 mmcfd by early Saturday, it offered only a brief flicker of relief amid what has become a persistent energy…
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Whether individual freedom in digital spaces should sometimes give way to collective social values is a question most Western researchers wouldn’t typically stop asking. Within liberal traditions, free will is sacrosanct: adults choose who they associate with, live with the outcomes, and society steps in only once clear harm is demonstrated. Yet a recent study…
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A critical read of the Education section’s last sixteen weeks yields an uneven verdict. The editorial board has pulled together a genuinely broad thematic range across the 23 published pieces, and a number of individual contributions demonstrate real intellectual gravity. Yet the commissioning pattern also exposes silences that a steadier editorial hand ought to close….
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Introduction Between 2009 and 2015, Greece endured repeated bailouts, harsh austerity, economic contraction, and social upheaval, a crisis that remains a defining example of how fiscal mismanagement, opaque data, political calculation, and external dependency can converge into national emergency. Though Bangladesh and Greece differ greatly in structure and development, aspects of Greece’s experience remain instructive….
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Over sixteen weeks, the Law and Local Governance section of The Oniket Bulletin has published twenty seven articles that collectively trace an impressively broad map of Bangladesh’s legal and institutional landscape, ranging from constitutional foundations to the fine mechanics of ordinance drafting. When read as a cohesive body rather than discrete pieces, the section reveals…
The presidential election scheduled for 20 August 2026, prompted by the resignation of President Mohammed Shahabuddin before his term expired, presents a familiar spectacle. The Election Commission has published dates, nomination deadlines have been set, and voting will occur inside the Jatiya Sangsad session hall. Everything looks constitutional. Yet the real question goes unasked: is…
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