Weekly Bangladesh Policy Outlook: Analysis, Truth, Debate.
In Shahapur village of Ishwardi upazila, farmer Md Mehedi Hasan watched two bighas of banana he had planted this season go under when the Padma rose sharply earlier this month. He is not alone. This article examines the immediate government response needed to salvage what remains of this season’s harvest in Pabna, and the longer-term…
The opinion piece under review, Sajed Kamal (2026) in The Daily Star, argues that Bangladesh possesses vast and largely untapped renewable energy potential, that global fire and warming trends make an accelerated transition urgent, and that the country should adopt what its author calls an emergency action plan toward one hundred percent renewable power. It…
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This article examines what Bangladesh’s newly revived liver transplant program means for patients, for health investment priorities, and for the fairness of concentrating resources on one terminal disease while others remain underserved. The story reads like an ordinary hospital case until the numbers sink in. A Dhaka homemaker with liver cirrhosis had her family pricing…
This article examines the everyday, largely unexamined secularism that persists beneath Bangladesh’s constitutional declaration of Islam as the state religion, distinguishing it from secularism as a formal legal doctrine. It traces where interfaith coexistence has functioned in practice, identifies the specific junctures, communal, political, and institutional, where that coexistence has visibly fractured, and assesses what…
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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Crime reporting in Bangladesh occupies a peculiar and vulnerable position. It touches on police investigations, political interests, business rivalries, and personal reputations all at once, which makes it uniquely exposed to influence from parties who benefit from a particular version of events reaching the public. The result, increasingly visible in recent years, is a media…
The recent directive (by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh) to introduce a unified, internationally standard training and certification system for Bangladesh’s youth marks a genuinely constructive intervention in a sector long plagued by fragmentation. Chairing the third meeting of the Governing Body of the National Skills Development Authority, the head of government identified a problem…
Bangladesh’s decision to raise diesel, petrol, octane, and kerosene prices by Tk 20 per litre from September 21 has triggered one of the year’s sharpest political confrontations. Diesel now costs Tk 135, up from Tk 115, while kerosene has jumped nearly 15 percent to Tk 155. The government, in office since February, frames the increase…
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Bangladesh’s apex Qawmi madrasa authority, Al Haiatul Ulya Lil Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh, has issued its clearest statement yet on student welfare: a categorical ban on beating students, a mandate for functioning protection committees, and a seven-day deadline for investigating complaints. The announcement raises an obvious question. Does it arrive too late to matter, and what…
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This article examines the Election Commission’s decision to rule out local government elections this year, and considers its implications for regional governance, law and order, and the protection of vulnerable citizens across Bangladesh. On its surface, the announcement that local elections will not take place in November or December is an administrative scheduling matter. Preparations…
